Lead Civil Engineer at Primus Group

Major Accountabilities of the position:

• To ensure Health, Safety and Environment has the highest priority in all activities undertaken by Engineering and Design personnel.
• To supervise the work of the discipline engineers and designers.
• To allocate engineering resources in order to complete all deliverables for the discipline within the allocated staff hour budget and schedule.
• To provide all necessary input to the project control and reporting system, including attending review meetings, maintaining the progress report for the discipline, liaising with the project planning engineer for discipline progress planning, and preparing the discipline section of the monthly report.
• To prepare the discipline project design criteria prior to the commencement of any engineering or design activities.
• To arrange for the preparation of all discipline design deliverables including layout drawings, detail drawings, schedules, specifications, datasheets, calculations requisitions and technical tender evaluations in accordance with the project requirements and the company procedures and standards.
• To specify and select appropriate equipment to allow the project to develop a practical and economic design
• To ensure technical integrity of design deliverables for the discipline
• To ensure that all document checking and design verification tasks have been, completed in accordance with the company and project procedures before formal document issue.
• To review and approve the design documentation prepared by the discipline
• To ensure conformance with customer requirement
• To liaise with other design groups, and to coordinate the discipline activities with other groups to achieve the overall project design objectives in the most efficient manner
• To provide discipline input to the project key documentation during squad checking, or by the issue of key documentation change requests immediately the discipline activities create or identify the need for a change to those documents
• To foster a culture of continuous improvement

Competencies Required

• Integrity & Trust, Action orientation, Drive for Results, Zero Harm, Technical & Functional Skill, Customer Focus, Dealing with Change,
• Building Business Relationships, Presentation Skills, Time Management, Problem Solving, Timely Decision Making, Organising, Work /Life Balance, Planning, Business Acumen, Managing and Measuring work, Negotiating Skills, Conflict Management, Developing Team Members and Building Effective Teams.

Job Specific Knowledge:
Working knowledge of the latest applicable engineering codes and standards, design practices and design quality standards. FPSO and Subsea engineering experience will be added advantage.

Education – Qualifications, Accreditation, Training:
Bachelor of Science in Civil or Structural Engineering (or related field) and 5 years of related work experience, including supervisory/managerial experience within a large Engineering firm is required. Professional registration with COREN and/or NSE is also required.

IT Skills:
Proficiency in STAADPro, SACS, Mathcad, et.c to complete engineering assignments

People Skills:

• Proven capability for managing a large number of personnel and/or complex technical situations is required, as well as familiarity with industry practices and current technology.
• Requires communication skills to be able to successfully work in a team environment and communicate effectively with other disciplines.