Senior Structural Engineer

SENIOR STRUCTURAL ENGINEER Location: Farnborough, UK Contract duration: initial contract duration until 31 Dec 2027 - renewable Start Date: ASAP Primary Purpose

• Provide client-side technical authority and engineering governance for all Civil, Structural and Architectural (CSA) scopes, ensuring designs are safe, fit-for-purpose, constructible and decision-ready.
• Accountable for the technical integrity, quality, integration and maturity of CSA scopes across Feasibility Study and Execution phases.
• Enforces Group Technical Standards (GTS), Project Management Framework (PMF) and Investment Development Model (IDM) requirements, and ensures readiness for project decision gates.
• Acts with EPCM contractors and Integrated Owner Teams (consultants, experts SMEs), ensuring multidisciplinary coordination.
• Evaluated according to the P&D technical competencies and capability framework (Mental Processing, Knowledge, Technical Skills, Social Process Skills, Application) Main Responsibilities
• Responsible for engineering completeness, quality, integration, and L1 assurance of assigned project scope
• Acts as Owner's technical authority for CSA disciplines, ensuring engineering is safe, constructible, operable, and decision ready.
• Responsible for ensuring the quality, maturity and completeness of engineering across the Feasibility Study and Execution phase of the project
• Verifies contractor engineering deliverables are fully aligned with GTS, PMF, IDM and stage-gate maturity requirements.
• Validates engineering readiness for critical decision gates (FS & execution release)
• Ensures CSA discipline inputs contributes to overall constructability, operability, safety-in-design, and sustainability principles.
• Ensure discipline, design, maturity and compliance with corporate and regulatory standards.
• Lead Owner Level 1 (L1) reviews of critical CSA engineering
• Verifies CSA deliverables meet stage completeness before recommending acceptance.
• Responsible for proper management changes, both internally and from engineering service contractors.
• Identify and ensure CSA discipline risks are included in risk register, including operational, safety, and integration risks.
• Identify long-lead items and technical interfaces impacting construction sequence and transition plan to operations.
• Responsible for supporting the delivery of the Feasibility Study and Execute phase with the agreed schedule and budget. Mental Processing Ability CAPABILITIES REQUIRED TO DO THE ROLE
• Ability to manage complexity, integrate multidisciplinary inputs and make risk-based decisions.
• The ability to organise and process information of varying volume and complexity to solve problems and make effective decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully deliver work at the required level of complexity.
• Leadership and teamwork capability.
• Techniques and approaches to achieve success in multidisciplinary and multi-project environments.
• Strong judgement in assessing engineering maturity prior to decision gate approvals. Qualifications
• An undergraduate qualification (Bachelors / Honours degree or equivalent) for the applicable discipline.
• Postgraduate specialisation in Civil or Structural (preferred)
• Registered with a UK recognized engineering intitule as a professional / charted engineer. Able to work as such in UK.
• Proven track record with extensive practical experience.
• Minimum 10 years as a registered engineer. Technical Knowledge
• Experience in engineering development for mining projects.
• Knowledge of applicable international and local engineering standards.
• Knowledge of legislation related to engineering disciplines and governance.
• Knowledge of HAZID and HAZOP processes and experience of the process and or leading of design reviews.
• Experience in EPCM environments and multidisciplinary integration. Including engineering development, procurement, contract management, site support, and vendor engineering review, as a Senior Engineer or Engineering Coordinator on large-scale projects, including at least one project exceeding USD 500 million, and preferably one exceeding USD 1 billion Total Installed Cost (TIC).
• Experience working in Owners Team.
• Ability to deliver value engineering, incorporating innovation and complementary disciplines (safety, environment, operations and maintenance, sustainability, and mine closure).
• Knowledge of PMI guidelines and tools, as well as Agile and Lean Construction methodologies.
• Knowledge — following appropriate training — of IDM / ICBS / PMF frameworks.
• Proficiency in project management software such as Microsoft Project, Primavera, ACONEX, and others.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Office.
• Detailed knowledge of BIM methodology and datacentric delivery principles.
• Advanced level of English. Technical Skills
• Agile Discipline Management with Owner-side oversight of contractor-developed engineering scope.
• Governance and assurance of engineering scopes across the Feasibility Study and Execution phase, particularly for multidisciplinary underground mining projects,
• Change Management with formal control and approval of discipline-related technical changes
• Risk Management, including ownership of discipline risk identification, technical risk evaluation, mitigation strategies, and escalation to decision gate forums.
• Schedule Management, ensuring discipline deliverables are sufficiently mature, integrated, and stable to support irreversible project decisions.
• Engineering maturity assessment and formal validation of deliverables aligned with stage-gate readiness (FS & Execution).
• Continuous improvement leadership, embedding lessons learned and best practice into design activities Application
• Experience and willingness to work in Mining Operations, addressing technical aspects to ensure that user requirements are met.
• The drive, determination, persistence, and commitment to apply the other capability elements to deliver safe, productive, and sustainable outcomes.
• Focus on Engineering Maturity: the degree to which engineering deliverables are sufficiently defined, complete, integrated, and stable to reliably support the decisions required at a specific project stage.
• Commitment to engineering maturity: ensuring deliverables are sufficiently defined, integrated and stable to support irreversible construction decisions.