Structural Design Engineer

As part of the Civil, Structural, Architectural  design team, in this role you will be the Structural Design Engineer supporting ongoing and new projects of our battery factories.

Responsibilities:

• Preparation or review of Northvolt structural design philosophy and implementation in design

• Coordinate/ gather the structural design requirements from multiple disciplines

• Ensure coordination between internal /external stakeholders and design consultants

• Ensure compliance with environmental requirements

• Ability to carry out conceptual design independently to communicate design intent when necessary

• Preparation or review of foundations, steel and concrete structural design of main building as well as multidiscipline support design

• Review of process/ equipment supplier’s documentation

• Attendance in inter-disciplinary BIM/model reviews or 2D drawing reviews

• Attendance in design meetings.

• Control of material quantities

• Ensure deliverables required to be submitted by design consultants are provided in a timely, safe, efficient and high-quality manner.

• Resolve technical queries from Contractors

• Technical support to procurement, commercial, construction and commissioning.

• Creation of the structural maintenance/ operational procedures.

• Review technical data?CSA?for?process equipment?during design, FAT and installation phase?

• Work with the Maintenance and Operations Teams to achieve a successful handover of the design documentation and flawless start-up?

• Review of red-line and / or as built documentation

• Creation or review of structural design procedures, basis of design, structural design specifications and associated typical drawings i.e. Northvolt factory blueprint electrical design.

• Ensure full compliance with Northvolt policies, regulation and governance

Requirements

• Level 4 — Experience from large projects and carried out assignments/projects with high quality. Takes primary responsibility for management of a larger group with ability to lead and develop.

• Bachelors or Master’s in Structural Engineering

• Professional registration - Chartered Civil/ Structural Engineer, or equivalent.

• Computer literacy (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

• Fluency in English

• Valuable (but not required) is fluency in other languages, including German

• Minimum of 7 years experience in Advanced Manufacturing or similar industry.

• Experience/ ability of designing industrial buildings according to European and German codes and safety standards.

• Experience of carrying out structural engineer design work

• Experience of working in a multidiscipline environment

• Experience on brownfield and greenfield projects

• Experience in all project design phases, from concept to basic and detailed design

• Experience of following design projects through to construction phase

• Experience of site based engineering roles

• Experience with, and motivated to, setting up work methods and procedures, work with process evaluation and documentation.

• Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment

• Review of fabrication drawings

• Experience using drawing software, preferably AutoCAD

• Experience using structural analysis design software, preferably Staad Pro

• Design of groundworks improvements

• Design of various types of foundations

• Design of steel and concrete structures

• Design of access platforms and ladders/ stairs

• Design of multidiscipline industrial supports

• Design of gantries and lifting rails

• Ability to interpret geotechnical investigations

Next steps?

If you are interested in the position, send your CV to: sojedasilverback.ie