Senior Engineer- Primary Steel Offshore wind

Company Description

Senior Engineer – Offshore Wind Engineering

We invite you to bring your ingenuity and enthusiasm into play as you lead the delivery of high quality, innovative primary steel designs for the offshore wind turbine foundations of the future. To succeed in this role you must have a degree in Structural Engineering and a proven track record delivering offshore primary structures, preferably for offshore windfarms.

Inviting bright minds

Do you want to push the boundaries of your profession and develop your excellence in an open, collaborative, and empowering culture? We work to create a sustainable future and our inspiring projects and innovative solutions aim to set the standard among our peers. You will join a global company that has been growing successfully since its founding in 1945. Together, we lead and leave a positive impact on societies, companies and people around the world.

Become part of our team for Offshore Wind

As our new Structural Engineer, you will be part of Ramboll’s Offshore Wind team consisting of over 200 professionals. Operating primarily from offices in Denmark, Germany and the UK along with colleagues worldwide including India, China, USA, Japan and Poland, the offshore wind team support offshore projects around the world, delivering the full suite of services required to develop an offshore windfarm including the design for offshore wind turbine support structures and foundations. Having completed the detailed design of over 65 offshore wind farms, you will join a team with a wealth of experience in to draw upon and learn from. If you enjoy challenging the status quo and finding efficient and novel ways to tackle unfamiliar engineering problems, then you will thrive here. If you believe that a design team can become more than the sum of its parts through effective communication, then you will fit in well.

Job Description

• Learn an internal tool “ROSAP” to use in structural calculations.
• Perform detailed structural calculations (e.g. monopiles or jacket structures) and work with an international team of steel engineers on project teams referring to the Discipline Leads, Project or Design Manager
• Mentoring junior engineers in the required methods and processes to design efficient structures.
• Test and develop tools to streamline the design process on the primary steel discipline.
• Deliver primary steel design work packages for concept, Front End Engineering Design (FEED) and detailed designs in collaboration with primary steel engineers and other disciplines and referring to the Design Manager and other discipline Lead Engineers
• Regular contributor to our primary steel competence group sharing knowledge with other engineers in the team and the wider offshore wind organisation.
• Oversee the analysis and optimisation of structural designs through skilled examination of results and important design drivers.
• Perform Quality Assurance of computer models and project documentation.
• Contribution to Ramboll’s technical development board, which is our research intelligence centre in the field of primary steel design.

Qualifications

• A master’s degree in civil or structural Engineering; preferably with a focus on the design of offshore structures or similar areas of study. Doctorate studies in a relevant field will be considered a plus.
• 5 - 9 years' experience in design of steel structures. Offshore experience is preferred.
• Knowledge of offshore wind foundations, structural dynamics and/or wind loading.
• A good understanding of the offshore renewables industry and experience designing offshore structures.
• Experience with structural design software and programming languages, preferably Python.
• Good communication skills in English with the ability to work as part of a team interfacing with other disciplines and other stakeholders both in person and remotely.
• Knowledge of advanced engineering concepts such as Fatigue, Dynamics, Wind, waves, Vibrations, Non-Linear analyses & etc is advantageous.
• WTG loads experience is added advantage.
• Should be well conversant with design standard requirements.
• Experience in advanced usage of MS office tools (Excel/Word/Power Point) is preferable.
• Able to perform tasks independently, speak up actively and have the willingness to go for an extra mile.
• It is advantageous to have experience in software package such as e.g. RFEM, STAAD-PRO, SACS, SESAM or similar

Additional Information

Working at Ramboll

Ramboll is an engineering consulting company employing 18.500 experts in 35 countries, whereof the Offshore Wind group employs of 200 full time staff in 9 offices. 

To work at Ramboll means being part of a people organisation and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are focused on knowledge sharing and collaboration across competence areas and geography, and we aim for a strong diversity among our employees. This enables us to solve a broad range of projects, and we firmly believe that cross-collaboration leads to creative and longstanding solutions. Thus, the possibilities at Ramboll are many and diverse –we invest a lot in development of people and offer career paths tailored for each individual.

Welcome to our Energy division

Ramboll is at the forefront of addressing the green transition and offers a holistic approach to energy that supports the sector on the journey towards more sustainable solutions. With 2,000 experts in 14 countries, covering the full spectrum of technologies and all parts of the value chain from production and transmission to distribution, we plan, design and implement energy solutions all over the world.

Ramboll in India

Ramboll has more than 2,000 experts working across five offices in India applying their passion to deliver innovative solutions in markets as diverse as Buildings, Transport, Planning & Urban Design, Water, Environment & Health and Energy. Founded in Denmark, Ramboll is a people company. We invite you to contribute to a sustainable future working in an open, collaborative and empowering culture.

How to apply

If you are interested in applying, please send your application through our online recruitment system by clicking the link ‘apply’ below. Attach your CV, cover letter and relevant documents showcasing why you are the right fit for the role, and when you are available to start. We look forward to receiving your application.

All applications will be processed continuously, and you will be invited for an initial interview if we think there may be a match. We kindly ask you to apply for the position through our online recruitment system where your personal data are stored properly.