Senior Structural Engineer

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Are you a Senior Structural Engineer looking for a new challenge with experience in infrastructure projects within the Maritime, Water, Defence, and Energy sectors?

KBR has all the benefits of a global organization with a local company feel where we believe in our values; - We Value Our People, We Deliver, We Are People of Integrity, We Empower, We Are a Team of Teams.

You will be working as part of our Engineering & Professional Services team in Perth working on projects within Defence, Transport, Energy and Infrastructure within WA and nationally.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manages junior engineers and drafters, leading small teams towards an agreed outcome and implementing corrective action where team is deviating from plan.

• Undertakes calculations for design and analysis to Australian Standards.

• Prepares tender documents, including work breakdown structures, scopes, exclusions / inclusions and estimate design and documentation effort.

• Liaison with asset owners, operators, contractors, and other consultants.

• Attends meetings including briefings and disseminates information amongst team where required.

• Progresses design documentation, using experience to mark up and sketch design intent into project drawings.

• Reviews other engineer’s designs or drafter’s documentation and provide constructive feedback to further develop quality of deliverables.

• Mentors junior engineers and develops team spirit.

Skills & Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent

• Chartered Professional Engineer strongly preferred.

• Is proficient with most typical Australian Standards and industry guidelines for bridges, buildings and infrastructure working in accordance with relevant codes, standards and legal requirements.

• Uses structural analysis computer software to assist with general structural designs. Expected proficiency in Spacegass and Microsoft suite of programmes.

• Previous experience in consulting environment.

• Candidates must currently reside in Australia and hold Australian permanent residency or citizenship.

Why Join KBR?

Our people are the heart of our business; they are what make us successful. That’s why we’re committed to creating conditions in which they can flourish and feel valued, so they can focus on doing what they do best.

Our Purpose

We are driven by our purpose of Together, delivering infrastructure for a better tomorrow. Our results and reputation for excellence are underpinned by our people and our culture of caring, collaboration learning and trust to deliver innovative professional services for our customers.

We leverage our global network and work in seamless partnership with our customers to deliver innovative, creative and sustainable solutions that will make a lasting impact on communities around Australia.

Our Values

Everything we do at KBR is centred around our people, customers, and the communities that we strive to elevate. We work together as a OneKBR team of teams to drive our shared purpose and address our customers’ growing needs. The results we deliver are underpinned by our collective focus on excellence, passion for the people we work with and the innovations we create to deliver them.

We act with integrity and encourage our people to follow rewarding careers and empower them to strive for excellence and deliver the best results for our customers and communities.

Our Culture

We are a people company — great people doing great things, and we look for people who bring passion as well as technical excellence to their jobs as we believe every employee is integral to shaping the future of our business. 

With the feel of an agile company and the capability of a large company, we encourage and give our people the autonomy to strive for opportunities that exist in all directions and equip them with the resources to become leaders of tomorrow.

Our Infrastructure Services business offers fulfilling careers with room to explore their creativity and regularly step up and swim outside of their lane. 

In addition to working on some fantastic projects, KBR offer an array of benefits focused on providing our people with a great working environment, continual career development, flexible work arrangements and work/life balance

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