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Kent Recruitment

Senior Engineer/Specialist - Structural/Civil

Location
Sarnia, Canada
Category
Engineering
Date Published
23/05/25
Status
Open
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:

Sarnia office is seeking Civil/Structural Senior Engineer to join their CSA (Civil/Structural/Architectural) team. The Civil/Structural Senior Engineer will be responsible for civil and structural engineering on multi-discipline engineering projects and for providing leadership by example to motivated and skilled technical teams in a computer based integrated 3D engineering/ design environment.

Skills and Responsibilities:

Responsibilities:

  • Work on medium or large size engineering projects including EPC projects in Oil & Gas industry
  • Lead a team of civil and structural engineers and designers on major projects as the discipline lead engineer
  • Define and review scope of work, prepare engineering estimates at both proposal and design level, schedule and monitor progress for civil/structural portion of work in a project
  • Prepare, review and approve design calculations as required to meet project requirements
  • Conduct field investigations as needed by projects and prepare detailed field reports
  • Coordinate with other discipline leads to ensure effective quality product
  • Keep up to date on new engineering processes, techniques, and IMS and standards
  • Develop and recommend improvements in engineering and design standards and guides to lower cost and improve work quality and facilitate maintenance
  • Ensure that effective methods and design/engineering techniques are used
  • Resolve project issues and problems
  • Provide technical support to construction and facilitate the work of project team members
  • Contribute to a team environment by accomplishing related results in a cooperative and supportive manner
  • Must be able to work with the team in developing improved work processes for the department
  • Able to work on multiple tasks concurrently
  • Provide input to the Department Manager during the preparation of the performance evaluation of the civil/structural engineers and designers assigned to his/her project
  • Perform other project-related duties as assigned
  • Review and authentication of drawings developed by the CSA design team.
  • Assign work and evaluate technical competence.
  • Provide Technical guidance to the CSA team members.
  • Identifying investigations, value engineering and special analysis needs on a project.
  • Take part in 3D model reviews, technical audits, constructability review and risk analysis.
  • Engineering progress reports.
  • Coordinate engineering work schedule.
  • Determine and schedule work priorities meeting the project schedule.
  • Effective design change management.
  • Keeping abreast of new technical developments and estimating their impacts.
  • Establish good working relationships and communication with the client and other engineering disciplines both locally and other areas of the company.
  • Assist in providing Home-Office technical support to engineering groups and construction management team at site.
  • Manage assigned work effectively, including prioritizing, executing, managing schedule and budget, and reporting to meet project goals.
  • Complete input to monthly project progress reporting (EVM) as well as input to the department MFL.

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:

Knowledge/ Qualification/ Training/ Certification:

  • A Professional Engineer with a minimum of 20 years of experience in an EPC environment, and a minimum of 12 years of experience in the civil and structural design and construction related to Petrochemical and Refining facilities, preferably in Sarnia area.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience as a Lead Role in medium or large size projects is required

Communication:

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

Behavior/ Core Competencies:

  • A good knowledge of the interdisciplinary requirements for Petrochemical and Refining for Sarnia projects.
  • A solid design experience of the complex structures for process units like cracking, oil distillation, sulfur recovery etc.
  • A solid design and construction support experience in the brownfield conditions
  • A good knowledge of workshare with multiple offices and High-Value Engineering Centers.
  • In depth knowledge of civil/structural computer applications (3D structural analysis and design, and 3D modeling methodologies).
  • Proficiency with Staad Pro, Staad Foundation, Mat 3D, Foundation 3D, RISA 3D.
  • Working knowledge of AutoCAD (Bentley) or Microstation.
  • Demonstrated ability to adapt to changes in technology.
  • Ability to integrate new technologies into daily work processes
  • Experience working with other disciplines understanding their interface requirements.
  • Experience with design and/or construction of plants desirable.
  • A thorough knowledge of Canadian codes and standards, and industry standards (PIP, API, etc).
  • Leadership and management skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal, presentation, communication and organizational skills.
  • Ability to work with others in a team environment.
  • Ability to work efficiently and demonstrate effective organizational skills.
  • Must be able to work under pressure
  • Must be able to work with the team in developing improved work processes for the department.
  • Registration through PEO as a P.Eng.

HSSEQ:

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.

Details about the role:
Location: Sarnia Ontario
Relocation required: N/A
Travel required: 10%
Contract type: Regular
Experience level: 20 Years
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