Lead Structural Engineer

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Full Job Description

SSE has big ambitions to be a leading energy company in a low carbon world. Following our commitment to invest £12.5 billion in low carbon projects over the next 5 years, our SSE Renewables (SSER) business continues to be at the forefront of our growth plans, and our ambition to build a world that's more sustainable and inclusive for you, your family, the community you live in and for generations to come. We are proud to be playing a critical role in the net zero transition, as we aim to more than treble the net capacity in operation to 13GW and grow renewable energy output five-fold to over 50TWh over the next 10 years.

About the Role

Key to our growth ambition, SSE Renewables have an exciting opportunity within our Renewables Engineering Centre Offshore Structures Team for a Lead Engineer to support engineering activities within one of our key new build projects in our UK portfolio.

As Lead Structural Engineer, you'll play a key role in our Offshore Engineering Team providing structural engineering support within the Foundations package of one of our leading UK projects. You will lead our internal team and manage external consultants, to deliver the construction stage of the project. You will be responsible for coordinating technical reviews of contractor deliverables, monitoring contractor performance, reporting progress and performance to the project management team, and support all development activities required to progress the project into fabrication and installation.

Key accountabilities will include:

• Ensuring co-ordinated and coherent delivery by a multi-disciplinary engineering team and facilitating communication channels between disciplines and project package teams, highlighting risks and issues and identifying actions to eliminate or reduce them.

• Supporting decision making processes by working with the project team to produce a robust recommendation for project stakeholders.

• Implementing and maintaining key design governance documents and processes.

• Collating key updates from across the team and provide feedback to senior project management on progress including emerging risks and issues.

• Facilitating interfaces by bringing all stakeholders together, producing actions plans, and obtaining regular updates from the team.