Kintec Global Recruitment
Principal Structural Engineer
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Job Title: Principal Engineer, Offshore Structures
Location: South East England (Hybrid, with strong remote flexibility)
Contract Type: Permanent
Overview
An opportunity for an experienced Offshore Structural Engineer to lead a design team and set the technical direction on substructures and topsides across major international offshore energy work. This role offers genuine authority, broad technical scope, and international exposure.
Why This Role Stands Out
- Principal-level leadership of an offshore structures design team
- Full lifecycle scope: feasibility studies, FEED, detailed design, and brownfield assessments
- Technical variety across fixed structures, floaters, foundations, and advanced non-linear analysis
- Hybrid working with strong remote flexibility
- International travel opportunities, both short and long term
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- Lead and direct structural engineers across one or multiple work packages
- Set up internal workflows and plan the team's activities
- Execute structural analysis for offshore substructures and topsides
- Define optimal technical solutions across feasibility, FEED, and detailed design phases
- Review and approve technical documentation and analysis before issue
- Prepare sketch drawings, concept work, and feasibility studies
- Define and follow up tender documentation, guiding bidders toward efficient technical solutions
- Organise offshore resource workloads in coordination with planners and project management
- Liaise with other discipline leads throughout project execution
- Tutor and mentor junior structural engineers
Requirements
- Strong experience in the analysis and design of offshore structures to ISO 19900 series, API RP 2A, and AISC
- Ability to build and verify FEM models of fixed structures such as jackets and topsides for in-place and temporary conditions
- Experience in the design of foundation systems including piles and mud mats
- Experience in brownfield re-design, life extension, and reliability analysis
- Proven capability in non-linear analysis (e.g. blast, dropped objects, impact, redundancy, pushover)
- Experience with floater design
- Familiarity with offshore materials, fabrication methods, and installation practices
- Proficiency with structural analysis tools such as SESAM Suite, USFOS, ANSYS, and SACS
- Degree in Civil, Offshore, Structural, or Aerospace/Aeronautical Engineering with a focus on structures
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Work Schedule
- Hybrid working model with strong remote flexibility
- International travel opportunities, both short and long term
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