West African Ventures Recruits Senior Structural Engineer

West African Ventures, an operating company of the Sea Trucks Group, was established in 2000 and is a 100% Nigerian company and a leading indigenous provider of offshore engineering, procurement, fabrication, installation and vessel charter services.

With corporate headquarters in Lagos, marine support base & shipyard in Warri, dry-dock and fabrication facilities in Onne Oil & Gas Free Zone, WAV provides excellent offshore support services to the Nigerian Oil & Gas sector.

West African Ventures is recruting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Senior Structural Engineer

Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Responsibilities

• Reports to the Engineering Manager (functional), Project Manager (project related)
• Directs Structural Engineers, Trainees and Draughtsmen involved in structural calculations and drafting
• Timely completion of all engineering deliverables assigned within the Project
• Ensure that contractual specifications, codes and standards are followed in project execution in accordance with contractual, legislative, regulatory, company and commercial requirements
• Inputs into methods for fabrication, transportation, construction and installation
• Ensure that technical concepts and methods are in accordance with common industrial standard practice
• Responsible for all Structural design work in a given project
• Engineering support during execution phase of the project (fabrication, offshore)
• Adherence to Company Management System (CMS) as applicable
• Proposing, stimulating and realising optimisation and improvements in the area of responsibility
• Review of applicable engineering deliverables
• Review all calculations and analysis performed by Structural Engineers and Trainees

Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in Civil/Structural engineering or relevant engineering discipline
• Relevant offshore training
• Strong engineering design experience
• Relevant software training
• Minimum of 10 years experience in offshore engineering, of which at least 7 years in engineering design
• Conversant with the use of AutoCAD software
• Ability to generate MTO from structural Drawings
• Good knowledge of design codes, standards and specifications
• Practical and theoretical knowledge of offshore transportation, installation and construction techniques
• Good knowledge of Design/ Calculation software and analysis tool
• Good knowledge of Company Management System (CMS) ensuring compliance to quality, health, safety, environment and security (QHSES) requirements
• Good knowledge of the English language both written and spoken
• Ability to work in a team and to co-ordinate activities
• Ability to proactively plan for potential problems scenarios (preparation of back-up plans)
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings
• Good theoretical knowledge of structural analysis

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Application Deadline: 31st December, 2013