About you:
Join us. Unleash your energy within.

If you have world-class ambitions to reach the stars while keeping your feet on the ground, we’re the team for you. We've created a new breed of company – future-focused with reimagined ambition across all disciplines within the energy sector.

We love people who know their own potential and are not afraid to use it. We know that together, we’re far more than the sum of our parts. So, we celebrate people who want to grow and develop as we work together on some of the largest projects on the energy world stage.

We are committed to our diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. From day one, we offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and abilities.

We’re a disability-friendly employer and can make adjustments to support you to perform at your best during the recruitment process.

Our purpose and beliefs:
As Kent, we’re tackling the greatest challenge of our time - to bring our world the energy it needs in the most responsible way ever imagined.

It’s the energy of every member of our team driven by our beliefs that is making this happen. Whatever our skill, our language, or our culture. These beliefs define and direct us every day to be the very best - for ourselves, our clients, our key stakeholders, the communities we operate in and the planet:

We PLAY BIG
We thrive on EMOTIONAL AGILITY
We are FANATICAL ABOUT PERFORMANCE
We are built on INFINITE THINKING

Read more about the Purpose, Beliefs and Guiding Principles that drive us:

Our vision for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging:
We recognise that diversity & inclusion are catalysts for success. We’re heightening awareness on the benefits of people diversity, diversity of experiences and diversity of our perspectives. Creating a culture of inclusivity where all employees feel a sense of belonging.

Our combined energy is fueled by different nationalities, across 6 continents and 24 countries. Our commitment is to celebrate character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability.

About the job:

Kent is looking for a Senior Structural Engineer to join our Aberdeen Structures Team within our UK Consulting business. Our Aberdeen Structures Team provides a broad range of services across our Oil & Gas and Offshore Wind markets. We are the ‘go to’ company for complex problems in design, engineering, integrity management, structural analysis, life extension, and ultimately decommissioning.

Our structural teams work on some of the most exciting and varied projects in the offshore sector. This role provides opportunities to work across our structural offshore services, including integrity, design, analysis and decommissioning. Flexibility is key, with a varied work pipeline across our Oil & Gas and Offshore Wind markets. This is a fantastic opportunity to broaden horizons and engage with local clients, while enhancing current skillsets.

Skills & Responsibilities:

• This is a broad-ranging role across Oil& Gas and Offshore Wind projects.
• Guide and mentor junior engineers, supporting their technical and professional development.
• Undertake both assessment of existing offshore assets and new design projects, depending on business needs; work will range from hand calculations to linear and non-linear finite element analysis.
• Collaboratewith colleagues to identify, develop, and implement new technical methodologies.
• Build,communicate, andmaintain effectiveclient relationships, including leading client facing conversations and delivering presentations of project work.
• Managepersonal costand timetargets todeliver anefficient, high-quality engineering service.
• Prepareclear, concise,high-quality technicalreports.
• Work withinhighly experienced,multi-disciplinary teamsto execute projects successfully.
• Developtechnical andprofessional capabilitiesin line with Kentcareer pathways.
• Work aspart of anintegrated team, ensuring client interaction and project delivery from multiple locations.

In addition to the responsibilities listed herein, the employee may be required to perform other ad-hoc tasks as needed or directed by the supervisor or management. These tasks will be within the reasonable scope of the employee's skills, capabilities, and role within the organization. The intent of this provision is to allow for flexibility and adaptability in meeting the dynamic needs of the organization, ensuring that operational requirements can be met efficiently. All such tasks will be assigned considering the employee's current workload and with respect to their professional development.

Your knowledge/skills, education, and experience:

• Engineering degree with honors or equivalent in Civil, Mechanical, orStructural engineering, Naval Architecture, or a related field.
• Ideally Chartered (ICE, IMechE, IStructE etc), or actively working towards chartership.
• Knowledge ofoffshore structural engineering andrelevant offshore design codes.
• Demonstrable experience of core competence for Senior Engineer level in at least one area for offshore structures (Oil & Gas and/or Offshore Wind) 1) structural integrity management 2) structural analysis 3)structural design 4) decommissioning.

Communication:

• Excellent command of the English language in both oral and written communication and skills.

Behaviour/ Core Competencies:

• Adaptability and the ability to effectively manage and prioritise multiple demands.
• An inquisitive attitude and the drive to identify and pursue areas for improvement.
• Ability to handle multiplefast-paced requests, balancing the need for high qualitywith the need to meet time and cost constraints.
• Proficiency in MS Office, including Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams.
• Well-organised and methodical approach to project work.
• Experience working in accordance with structural engineering design codes and standards, with the ability to develop robust solutions from first principles based on a strong theoretical understanding.

HSSE:

The Employee shall observe the Health, Safety, Sustainability, Environment and Quality rules of the Company; it’s clients and the governing authorities of the host country.

We are committed to our diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. From day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and abilities.

We’re a disability-friendly employer and can make adjustments to support you to perform at your best during the recruitment process. Please contact us confidentially at recruitment.uk@kentplc.com to find out how we can support you.