Haskoning
Senior Maritime Engineer with dock/lock gate experience

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Senior Engineer Opportunity
This is an opportunity for a Senior Engineer with approximately 10+ years of experience, wanting to join an engineering consultancy in a globally recognised Maritime Engineering team based in Brighton or Exeter. This role requires knowledge and experience of the design and installation of dock and/or lock gates.
Are you looking to be part of a growing team with the opportunity for growth or your next career step? Do you have a true passion to align business growth ambitions with the external world? This role will provide you the opportunity to drive our business agenda with a key focus on international shipyards and defence facilities.
Following continued success within the defence and international shipyard sectors, Haskoning are expanding their current Exeter and Brighton team through the growth of the maritime business.
About Haskoning
At Haskoning, you will join an independent, employee-owned international consultancy that combines engineering, design, and consultancy services with software and technology. Our mission, "Enhancing Society Together," drives us to create a positive impact on the world.
We offer purpose-driven and challenging work in diverse international projects, leveraging our 140+ years of expertise. With over 7,000 employees in more than twenty-five countries, we work together to turn challenges into opportunities and make a real impact on society.
About Our Maritime Business
Our global Maritime team are over six hundred strong and are at the forefront of innovative international maritime planning, design, and development. We are multi-disciplinary experts that work on international projects to create successful ports, shipyards, and maritime infrastructure worldwide. We have provided expert commercial, technical and operational advice and created master plans across the five continents for a wide range of port and shipyard projects.
We are one of the largest and most experienced teams of port planning, shipyard and dry dock professionals, and dock and lock gate designers globally. We are world leaders in the production of port and shipyard feasibility studies, master plans, and designs. From our Maritime offices across the UK, we lead all the company’s Shipyard projects collaborating with colleagues globally.
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Examples of recent projects include the design of a lock for a new port in India with sliding caisson gates, the design of the newest, largest, and most technically advanced shipyard in the Middle East with three dry docks covering an area of over 1,000 hectares, above and below water assessment of a set of dock gates in the North East of England, and providing continuous significant support to our various UK Naval Bases.
The Role
If you’re an Engineer with dock/lock gate, floating pontoons, or other similar floating structure experience and you are looking to work on globally significant projects, this role would provide you a great opportunity to work on some amazing world class projects. This role will provide great exposure to local and global projects alike, whilst working with the leading professionals within the Shipyard sector.
Note, some of our clients require our staff to meet specific government Security Clearances before working on and having access to certain documents and projects, which will be a requirement of the job. We will pay for all necessary checks.
Job Responsibilities
- Prepare designs and analyses for maritime and associated structures, from initial concepts through to detailed designs, including the structural design of dock and lock gates.
- Collect and collate design data.
- Carry out inspections and surveys.
- Produce design calculations, check and review calculations produced by others.
- Produce outline models, drawings, and details for CAD (in Revit environment if you can but detailed drafting/modelling by modellers), check and review these prior to issue.
- Prepare draft Bills of Quantities, Contract Documents and Specifications.
- Prepare reports and presentations.
- Undertake engineering analyses and reporting.
- Provide engineering judgement and advice; contribute to preparation of study reports.
- Manage and direct more junior staff.
- Coach junior staff in technical matters.
- Project Manager for small and medium sized projects.
Desirable Skills And Experience
- Analytical Ability - independently undertake design and analysis work with support from senior engineers for complex tasks.
- Communication Skills – clearly articulate orally and in writing the reasons behind your decisions. Confident presenting to team members, clients, and stakeholders.
- Client Orientation – understands the importance of the client’s perception of the organization. Maintains a professional client- facing approach.
- Conceptual Ability – capable of undertaking design from concept to ready for construction.
- Problem Solving – think laterally and develop solutions to problems with others and on your own.
- Relationship Building – builds a network within the immediate team, and the wider organization and can be a trusted advisor to our clients.
- Personable – approachable, relatable, and empathetic.
- Responsible – Autonomy and responsibility to work without supervision.
- Civil or Structural Engineering Degree (or equivalent).
- Chartered member of a relevant institution, e.g. CEng MICE or CEng MIStructE or working towards.
- Professional experience in heavy civils projects.
- Experience in the design of floating steel structures such as dock and lock gates and pontoons, or other similar structures is essential.
- Experience in reinforced concrete design desirable but not essential.
- Retaining wall and piling design experience desirable but not essential.
- Willing to travel occasionally throughout the UK and overseas.


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What We can offer You
Ambitious. Exciting. Lively. Collaborative. Dynamic. That is how our colleagues describe our company. Want to contribute to enhancing society with your expertise? Be part of an open network where you are connected with the brightest and smartest people and technologies? Join us! We also recently won the New Civil Engineer Award for the Best Place to Work (Large Consulting Firm), in recognition of our commitment to creating a supportive and flexible work environment.
You can look forward to growing your career in a dynamic workplace with development opportunities and support on your career path. We have flexible working models to ensure a balance of family and working life, including part time options.
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