Structural Designer for wastewater treatment plants (for projects in Germany)

Location: Kraków, pl

Company Description

AFRY provides engineering, design, digital and advisory services to accelerate the transition towards a sustainable society. 

AFRY employs over 18,000 professionals in more than 50 countries. Net sales in 2024 were SEK 27,160 million.

AFRY is organized into three Divisions: Energy; Industry and Transportation & Places.

The Global Division Transportation & Places is active within transportation infrastructure, real estate, water and environment in the Nordics and Central Europe. The division has about 6,500 employees and is structured around two segments: Road & Rail and Public & Commercial Places.

Job Description

You will be joining one of six teams/sections (located in Berlin, Essen, Erfurt or Mannheim) belonging to the Water Service Area in Germany managed by Ralf Janyga (Net sale over €10 million). This Unit has currently approximetly 85 employees including some who are already located in Poland and looking for further growth. Main focus for this group are projects related to wastewater treatment plants.

You key responsibilities are:

• Design of buildings like tanks basins pumping stations as facilities for wastewater treatment plant (Buildings mostly designed with reinforced concrete)
• Size of tanks given by the process engineer; afterwards responsible design work and information collection from machinery and electrotechnis as well as from HVAC to design a facility that fist to the process and to common rules of design in wastewater treatment (for example German DWA).
• The design process follows several stages according to German HOAI (Grundlagenermittlung, Vorplanung, Entwurf, Genehmigung, Ausführungsplanung, Vorbereitung der Vergabe, Mitwirkung bei der Vergab)
• Design of the concrete building in cooperation with BIM Modelers
• Regular reporting to Project Managers

Qualifications

Must have:

• 5-7 years experience in structural designing
• Team player (collects information for design from mechanical end electrical engineers)
• Good English skills at B2-C1 level
• Good Excel skills
• Good Word skills (working on reports with structured headers and text)
• Teams skills (incl. transcription video recording)

Good to have:

• Knowledge and 1-2 years experience in design of wastewater treatment plants or similar structures for tanks, pumps etc. 
• Basic understanding of processes on a wastewater treatment plant (mechanical cleaning, biological cleaning, chemical cleaning, sludge treatment)
• Knowledge of German HOAI standard 
• Good overview on disciplines of design on a wastewater treatment plant (process, machinery, automatization, HVAC)
• Experience in German projects
• 5-7 years experience in wastewater treatment plants design
• Very good English skills at C1-C2 level
• CAD 3D skills
• Plant 3D skills
• Knowledge of software for structural calculations 

Additional Information

To individuals who join our team, we offer:

• Employment based on an employment contract
• Private medical insurance, life assurance, sport card (Multisport) and a social found  
• Exciting and challenging projects
• Personal development opportunities
• Friendly working atmosphere in a multidisciplinary and international team
• Helping to shape a sustainable future

Available office locations for this position are either in Poznań, Kraków or Łódź. We are flexible on the office location for this position, please indicate your preference in your covering letter. We value a healthy work life balance and are committed to your wellbeing. We will operate a hybrid working environment.

We are excited to receive your application, please ensure your CV is in English.

Should you be successful you will be invited for a telephone interview followed by a 2 steps virtual or live face to face interview.

At AFRY, we engineer change in everything we do. Change happens when brave ideas come together. When we collaborate, innovate technology, and embrace challenging points of view. That’s how we're making future. We are actively looking for qualified candidates to join our inclusive and diverse teams across the globe. Join us in accelerating the transition towards a sustainable future.