Senior Structural Topsides Engineer - Malaysia

Contract Type: Contractor

Duration: One Year

Role Purpose:

• The FEA Structural Engineer utilizes experience to support and deliver safe and quality solutions.
• The FEA Structural Engineer works well and effectively with discipline lead, discipline and inter-discipline engineering team to achieve project objective and ensure quality in engineering delivery in a timely manner.
• The FEA Structural Engineer prepares and plans own work according to discipline project priorities and deliverables schedule.

Main job responsibilities/ descriptions:

• Provide technical solutions that account for constructability, integration and installation within schedule and budgetary constraints.
• Perform calculation and reporting of FEM modelling, meshing, analysis and post-processing of mainly shell and solid structural elements in linear static analysis.
• Ensure FE model and result interpretation complies with applicable guidance, codes and standards.
• Experience in calculation and reporting of fatigue and SCF, linear buckling analysis, dynamic analysis and nonlinear analysis using FEM will be an added advantage.
• Provide Discipline Lead and Discipline Manager with updates regarding FEA activity status and highlight concerns as they arise.
• Support Discipline Lead to propose technical solution options within the boundary of project constraints and provide response to Classification Societies (ABS, DNV, BV) comment.
• Work effectively with designers and topsides structural engineer to ensure latest engineering design intend is correctly reflected in 3D model, construction drawing and MTO.
• Able to work with the inter-engineering disciplines and other project stakeholders to deliver a consistent and compliant design.
• Participate in discipline meetings to share lessons learned, promote better ways of working and suggest improvement.

Job requirements:

• Minimum Bachelor Degree in Structural/ Mechanical/ Aeronautical Engineering.
• Minimum 5 years working experience in FEA modelling and analysis.
• Familiar with Femap NASTRAN FEA software or equivalent.
• Familiar with ABS, BV or DNV rules.
• Familiar with ABS and DNV guides on fatigue assessment and plate buckling calculations will be an added advantage.
• Experience in MS Excel macro and scripting language will be an added advantage.

Behaviours & inter-personal skills:

• Trustworthy, resilient, persistence and have a can-do attitude.
• Solution focus and proactive.
• Good communication and listening skills. Open minded and able to articulate difficult technical subject matter to general audience.
• Team player yet resourceful and can work independently.
• Independent thinker with demonstrated depth and breadth of technical knowledge and experience related to structural topsides module engineering and construction.