Senior Engineer Secondary Steel Design – Offshore Wind Engineering (m/f/d)

Job Description

Are you looking to bring your structural design expertise and enthusiasm into play within a global, high performing projects team, delivering a range of innovative energy transition projects? Do you want to be at the heart of the energy transition industry, helping to guide the public and private sectors in the delivering technologies and systems to meet global and national net zero targets? Do you want to push the boundaries of your profession and develop your excellence in an open, collaborative and empowering culture?

If this sounds like you, or you’re curious to learn more, then this role could be the perfect opportunity. Join our Energy Transition team and work with us to close the gap to a sustainable future.

As our new Senior Engineer Secondary Steel Design, you will be part of our global Offshore Wind Engineering department. You will join a team of highly talented and engaged engineers at the forefront of innovative and complex design techniques in steel and composite materials. You will take on responsibility for your own design deliverables applying an analytical approach and structural understanding to create innovative solutions – with the aim of shaping and enhancing our service delivery.

If you crave a challenging role but also flexibility and work life balance, this role may be ideal for you.

The position will be based in our Hamburg office, but our hybrid work model allows you to split your time between working in the office and working from home.

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, clients, and people around the world.

World leader in wind energy

Ramboll is a world leader in offshore wind with a unique value proposition. We have been involved in more than 70% of all operating offshore wind farms globally. With our international, multidisciplinary and wind energy specific competencies, we are a true full-range service provider for offshore wind energy projects in all its phases. Ramboll supports clients globally to identify, evaluate and quantify both risks and opportunities, allowing them to make well educated, strategic decisions based on practical offshore wind project development, financing and execution experience, combined with world-class engineering know-how. We are among the very few consultancies in the world, providing engineering services for bottom-fixed as well as floating wind foundations. Since 2007 we have been involved in floating offshore wind and today have a dedicated team of experts supporting clients globally.

Within Ramboll, over 600 highly qualified experts are working on onshore and offshore wind projects globally, operating primarily from our 15 key offices across the Nordics, Germany, UK, Poland, Spain, Japan, Korea, and the US.

Your key tasks and responsibilities

• As part of a multidisciplinary project team, you will take on diverse tasks and responsibilities in international projects of varied complexity and scale, such as:
• With focus on large steel foundation structures for offshore wind turbines, deliver secondary steel design work packages for Concept Design, Front End Engineering Design (FEED) and Detailed Designs, in collaboration with secondary steel engineers and other relevant disciplines
• Manage works by secondary steel engineers and CAD technicians to deliver high-quality design and documentation of secondary structural components, reflecting both fabrication-friendliness and the latest state-of-the-art, while ensuring successful third-party certification and efficient follow-up during the fabrication and installation phases
• Coordinate design works with the Project/Design Manager and other discipline Lead Engineers in international teams
• Present design methods and results at client- and certifying agent meetings during both the design and certification process
• Perform analyses and optimisation of structural designs, followed by skilled examination of results and identification of the main design drivers
• Ensure designs are optimised to fulfil the latest health and safety requirements accounting for the full life cycle of the structure from fabrication through operation to decommissioning
• Perform Quality Assurance of design and simulation models, as well as project documentation
• Mentor junior engineers in the applied methods and processes to design both material- optimised and fabrication-friendly structures
• Contribute to Ramboll’s technical development in the field of secondary steel design

Your qualifications

• Master’s degree in Civil, Structural or Mechanical Engineering; with a strong focus on design of steel structures
• Relevant track record of 5+ years of professional experience in the area of design and construction of steel structures, preferably offshore wind
• Experience of applying understanding of structural engineering principles, very good
• knowledge in design standard requirements and the fabrication / construction process to produce efficient designs
• Good knowledge and understanding of 3D CAD and structural models
• Experience with coordinating designs with other disciplines and other stakeholders
• Effectively plan and prioritize multiple engineering tasks, while making independent decisions that promote / advance company goals and objectives
• Motivated to learn and grow in an international and skilled team of structural engineers, as well as to seize any opportunity to exceed expectations
• High integrity and team spirit, proactively engaging with others and offering support when required

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 1,581 experts in 15 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 Germany

Since the opening of our first office in 2000, Ramboll has experienced significant growth in Germany. Today, more than 1000 experts work in 13 offices. Together, we develop innovative solutions in the business areas of building construction & architecture, transportation & infrastructure, urban planning & design, water, environment & health, as well as management consulting. We invite you to work with us in an open, collegial, and supportive culture, contributing to a sustainable future.

Does this sound like you, please apply today. 

Additional Information

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