Principal Civil Designer

Job description / Role

Building on our past. Ready for the future

Worley is a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources experts. We partner with customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their assets. We’re bridging two worlds, moving towards more sustainable energy sources, while helping to provide the energy, chemicals and resources needed now.

Primary Objectives / Responsibilities

• Supports the business by communicating team resource loading and skill requirements to the direct supervisor.
• Ensures the project work is covered for vacation and unplanned absences. Mentors/trains and supports the delivery of training.
• Encourages knowledge of and compliance with requirements and processes.
• Works to resolve inter-discipline, vendor, and customer issues.
• Ensures discipline technical work and team activities meet all health, safety, environmental, and security requirements.
• Ensures team member adherence to generally accepted engineering and design practices, regulatory requirements, and customer specifications.
• Supports the standardization of equipment specifications, drawings, and document templates.
• Contributes to the understanding of technical knowledge, legal requirements, and customer specifications whenever viable and lawful.
• Uses local/global standards to support technical excellence. Supports checking, peer reviews, and incorporation of comments and findings.
• Assists in determining issues, defining problems, identifying the pros and cons of multiple solutions. Makes recommendations for technical deviations from client specifications or technical queries. Assists in creating final documentation incorporating all relevant information and the pursuit of client authorization.
• Regularly review and challenge design procedures and instructions; simplify and improve them to facilitate awareness, understanding and application.
• Complete detailed designs from structural engineering sketches and specification outlined by engineers or a supervising design drafter.
• Investigate new drafting techniques and drafting equipment and recommend changes to standard practices.
• Ability to take on responsibility for the design and drafting of onshore steel.
• May participate in project execution strategy and planning.
• Knows the project and discipline scope/cost/time requirements, assists the team to meet expectations, and coordinates with other disciplines to ensure project success.
• Implements innovative solutions, technology advances, and methods to effectively deal with working out of sequence.
• Supports management of project change and progressing for the discipline and works with the Project Management Team to take corrective actions regarding any issues, staffing requirements, scope changes, progressing, or other events that could affect project completion and/or profitability.
• Plans discipline quality, monitors quality activities, drives and participates in squad checking, recommends improvements, and takes action where required.
• Monitor design/drafting estimating norms within asset for own discipline.
• Develop and promote drafting and CAD initiatives to improve cost effectiveness of design / drafting work within own discipline.
• Participate in review of structural design and advise on technical drafting difficulties or government compliance requirements as appropriate.
• Oversee the preparation of design and detail drawings from sketches, plans or other design / specification data.
• Participate in design review with various clients and to advise on technical design and drafting issues and compliance requirements as appropriate.

Trade Apprenticeship, Certificate, Diploma, Advance Diploma of Engineering Technology in Civil Structural discipline.

Experience:

• Relevant years proven experience of detailed Civil Structural design gained with design contractors and/or oil/gas companies within the industry.
• Extensive design experience in the relevant discipline in the same or similar industry, and, where relevant, experience managing and leading multi-disciplinary projects and teams.
• Maintain HSE focus with the team to ensure OHSE requirements.
• Demonstrate behaviour and business practices commensurate with a culture of world’s best health, safety and environmental performance.

Demonstrate a visible and active commitment to:
• Personal well-being;
• Healthy and safe workplaces and activities; and
• Continuously improve Worley health, safety and environmental performance.
• Identify and report work hazards and incidents.
• Able to work in diverse team.
• Able to work effectively in small to large multi-disciplinary teams and share and transfer knowledge.
• Good English communication skills (spoken & written)
• A person of integrity who is trusted by others and consistently honours their commitments.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills, including the ability to convey information and ideas to individuals and groups.
• Demonstrates initiative and a willingness to learn and continuously improve on performance.
• Able to work on multiple projects of various size and complexity.

Moving forward together!

About the Company

Worley is a leading global provider of professional services in the energy, chemicals and resources sectors. We partner with our customers to address their most critical challenges at every stage of their projects: from initial concepts to sustaining and enhancing their assets. And we provide smarter, bolder solutions while delivering on our own sustainability commitments.

We are 51,000 bright minds across 46 countries all driven by a common purpose – delivering a more sustainable world. While working to fulfill our ambition to be recognized globally as the leader in sustainability solutions.