Lead Engineer Ports and Waterways

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Lead Engineer Ports and Waterways

Reference: Eng/Port/3420

Function :

You take the lead for one of our major marine infrastructure projects and you’re responsible for:

• Being the main point of contact between the client and your team. You work together with external partners (such as our partner in the joint venture, other design and engineering consultancies, subcontractors, contractors during the construction phase, etc.) in a constructive way.
• Following up progress, quality, and financial performance of the project executed by your team. You ensure systematic follow-up of the project, by watching over customer satisfaction and foreseeing deteriorations in financial performance.
• Taking a role as principal engineer of the project, coordinating and coaching our junior engineers and CAD designers.
• Preparing designs (preliminary, basis, tender, detailed) for marine structures such as Port & waterways development studies: Port Master planning, locks, Quay walls, Jetties, Bridge foundations, Flooding areas, dikes, Breakwaters and perform analyses to find the optimum installation method of these structures; always with an open mind for innovative and alternative solutions.
• Dimensioning marine infrastructure projects following current Belgian and European standards, legislation, codes of practice and internal guidelines.
• Enhancing an integrated design process by looking transversally over the different disciplines involved. Taking the project from concept design through to completion.
• Being the main liaison officer between the different competence centers in the company and our partner in the joint venture for water infrastructure, road infrastructure, spatial design, mobility, and equipment. You coordinate with the marine engineering design by the Ports and Waterways team.
• Ensuring that the project assigned to you is executed in accordance with our quality system and H&S rules.
• Ensuring knowledge development and sharing related to your expertise and coaching junior engineers.
• Keeping up with standards, new techniques, and developments in your discipline.
• Assisting the tender manager in establishing attractive and innovating offers.

Profile :

• Qualified Master of Science in Structural Engineering with a Major in ‘Dredging and Off-Shore Engineering’ or ‘Construction Design’ or ‘Marine Engineering’.
• At least 8 years of relevant technical design experience.
• Experience in applying the relevant design codes and guidelines for the structural design and soil-structure interaction of marine infrastructure such as port infrastructure, quay walls, sheet piles, anchors, combi walls,…
• Experience in designing concrete reinforcement in complex 3D structures.
• Extensive knowledge of current Belgian and European Design Standards, legislation, codes of practice (EC2, EC7, NEN, EAU, SB250, SB260, ISO…).
• Experience in project management with delivering a high quality product within time and budget.
• Experience in financial reporting and contract management for public clients.
• Team player with excellent communication skills.
• Quality-driven and operating in a customer-focused way.
• Experience with competitive bidding: conceptual design, quick estimation of building cost, definition and negotiation of the fee, presentation to the client or authorities, etc.
• Mobile and open to missions abroad (short or medium-term).
• You have an international driving license / driving license B.
• Expertise in modelling with SCIA Engineer, Plaxis and/or GeoStudio or Dsheet is an important asset.
• Proficient knowledge of standard computer programs including spreadsheets and word processing.
• A thorough knowledge of English is essential and good knowledge of Dutch/French is an important asset.

Additional information :

• Start date : ASAP
• Contract : mission until en of August 2022
• Location : Mobile (Gent/Oostende/Antwerpen)

Durée du contrat : 12 mois

Type d’emploi : Temps Plein, CDD, Freelance

Horaires :

• Lun-Ven
• Travail de jour

Télétravail:

• Non