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ENGINEERING JOBS
The simplest articulation of what Atkins does is "Plan, Design, Enable": Plan - the challenges facing its clients are multidimensional, often because of the increasingly complex modern environment. From cost and risk planning, feasibility studies and logistics, to impact assessments and stakeholder engagement activity, it plans every aspect of clients' projects. Design - Atkins designs intellectual capital such as management systems and business processes. It also designs physical structures such as office towers, schools, bridges and highways.
Whatever it designs, it applies the same passion and creativity combined with rigorous quality standards. Enable - its clients choose Atkins because they want to focus on their core operations. They entrust Atkins to look after the management of projects, people and issues - ensuring that deadlines are met, costs are controlled and success is delivered.
Atkins is one of the world’s foremost engineering and design consultancies, operating in virtually every region of the world, in virtually every market.
Choosing to work for Atkins will provide you with the opportunity to engage on some of the most exciting engineering challenges of our time. Together with our rewarding and flexible packages, you’ll have the perfect balance to bring your personal and career goals to fruition.
Within the oil and gas division, our operations focus on fixed and floating offshore structures, terminals, refineries, petrochemical plants and subsea pipelines.
Having worked on 1000 oil and gas installations around the world, we are now the operator’s ‘go to’ company for difficult challenges from life extension to innovative new design. Become part of a team of over 650 experts located in North America, Australia, the Middle East, Europe and the UK.
We provide services across a wide range of disciplines and applications covering fixed and floating offshore structures, terminals, refineries, petrochemical plants and pipelines. Atkins have worked on over 1,000 Oil and Gas Installations and 60% of our Oil and Gas Revenues now come from overseas.
We work on some of the most exciting and varied projects in the Oil and Gas sector, including front end studies, detailed design, offshore repairs, and explosion analyses. We also have significant opportunities in offshore renewable energy projects. Due to continual growth and increasing workload, opportunities exist for Principal Structural Analysts to join our Oil and Gas Asset Integrity teams based in, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and central London.
Responsibilities
Principal Structural Analysts within this area of Atkins are responsible for leading structural engineering analysis using computational methods for assessment and design for all types of offshore structures including fixed and floating, as well as representing Atkins to our clients, and developing junior staff. This will include:
“Atkins Oil & Gas are also recruiting for Structural Engineers in Australia, North America and India. To find more information on each of these vacancies please search the Careers page of our website specifying location”
Suitable candidates will possess the following qualifications and experience:
Company Description
Atkins is the largest engineering consultancy in the UK, the largest multidisciplinary consultancy in Europe and the world’s eighth largest design firm. Its size brings significant value to our clients, allowing it to harness an unrivalled pool of creative, professional people to produce outstanding solutions to challenging problems.The simplest articulation of what Atkins does is "Plan, Design, Enable": Plan - the challenges facing its clients are multidimensional, often because of the increasingly complex modern environment. From cost and risk planning, feasibility studies and logistics, to impact assessments and stakeholder engagement activity, it plans every aspect of clients' projects. Design - Atkins designs intellectual capital such as management systems and business processes. It also designs physical structures such as office towers, schools, bridges and highways.
Whatever it designs, it applies the same passion and creativity combined with rigorous quality standards. Enable - its clients choose Atkins because they want to focus on their core operations. They entrust Atkins to look after the management of projects, people and issues - ensuring that deadlines are met, costs are controlled and success is delivered.
Job Description
Did you know that Atkins Oil and Gas has more than 650 staff worldwide with offices in Aberdeen, Houston, London, Sharjah, Perth, Edinburgh, Esbjerg, Calgary, Glasgow, Stavanger, Epsom....Atkins is one of the world’s foremost engineering and design consultancies, operating in virtually every region of the world, in virtually every market.
Choosing to work for Atkins will provide you with the opportunity to engage on some of the most exciting engineering challenges of our time. Together with our rewarding and flexible packages, you’ll have the perfect balance to bring your personal and career goals to fruition.
Within the oil and gas division, our operations focus on fixed and floating offshore structures, terminals, refineries, petrochemical plants and subsea pipelines.
Having worked on 1000 oil and gas installations around the world, we are now the operator’s ‘go to’ company for difficult challenges from life extension to innovative new design. Become part of a team of over 650 experts located in North America, Australia, the Middle East, Europe and the UK.
We provide services across a wide range of disciplines and applications covering fixed and floating offshore structures, terminals, refineries, petrochemical plants and pipelines. Atkins have worked on over 1,000 Oil and Gas Installations and 60% of our Oil and Gas Revenues now come from overseas.
We work on some of the most exciting and varied projects in the Oil and Gas sector, including front end studies, detailed design, offshore repairs, and explosion analyses. We also have significant opportunities in offshore renewable energy projects. Due to continual growth and increasing workload, opportunities exist for Principal Structural Analysts to join our Oil and Gas Asset Integrity teams based in, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and central London.
Responsibilities
Principal Structural Analysts within this area of Atkins are responsible for leading structural engineering analysis using computational methods for assessment and design for all types of offshore structures including fixed and floating, as well as representing Atkins to our clients, and developing junior staff. This will include:
- Supervision of structural engineering consultancy work for all types of offshore structures including fixed, floating and subsea
- Maintaining and developing client relationships
- Leading a team to deliver high quality structural finite element analysis
- Ensuring compliance with relevant codes and standards
- Developing new analytical methods for specific structural engineering analysis challenges
- Presenting your work to clients through reports and presentations
- Ensuring the provision of efficient high quality structural engineering
- Meeting cost and time targets to assist Atkins' process in delivering high quality consultancy services to oil and gas industry clients.
- Travel to other company sites may be necessary
- Offshore survey visits may be required occasionally
- Atkins develops individuals through a portfolio of training and development activities designed to help you make the best of your abilities and talents.
- We encourage participation in all forms of training and have an active programme of in-house as well as external training for all of our engineers.
- Although our positions are full-time, there may be flexibility in working hours for the right candidates.
“Atkins Oil & Gas are also recruiting for Structural Engineers in Australia, North America and India. To find more information on each of these vacancies please search the Careers page of our website specifying location”
Desired Skills & Experience
RequirementsSuitable candidates will possess the following qualifications and experience:
- A good engineering degree (honours or equivalent) in civil, mechanical, structural, naval architecture or similar.
- Chartered Engineer
- Substantial structural engineering experience including offshore
- Experience in finite element analysis
- Understanding of wave loading and vessel motions
- Good report writing skills
- Excellent presentation skills and the ability to interface with clients
- Ability to cope rapidly with challenging problems
- Experience in advanced finite element analysis
- A proven track record of supervising and developing more junior engineers
- Potential and desire to progress to Chief Engineer status
- A co-operative and helpful attitude to colleagues and clients
- Self-motivating, reliable, consistent and mature approach to work
- Able to work independently and in teams
- Acceptance of responsibility for work carried out
- Flexible approach to work
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