Structural Engineer

John Cockerill, enablers of Opportunity 

Driven since 1817 by the entrepreneurial spirit and thirst for innovation of its founder, the John Cockerill Group develops large-scale technological solutions to meet the needs of its time: facilitating access to fossil free energies, enabling sustainable industrial production, preserving natural resources, contributing to greener mobility, enhancing security, and installing essential infrastructures.

Its offer to businesses, governments and communities consists of services and associated equipment for the sectors of energy, defence, industry, the environment, transports, and infrastructures. With over 6,500 employees, John Cockerill achieved a turnover of € 1,046 billion in 2022 in 24 countries, on 5 continents.

Context

For more than 200 years, John Cockerill Energy has been specialized in steam production. Later, it became leader in the market of heat recovery steam generators which has made for more than 50 years the success and recognition of the Group worldwide. Its teams then developed thermal solar receivers, and integrated renewable solutions to producing and store the energy, for example in micro grids.
Resolutely turned towards the future, our teams are dedicated to meet the needs of our times by developing innovative solutions to encourage access to energyreducing emissions and help its clients produce sustainably.

Our range of specialties:
Heat recovery steam generators particularly suited to operate in cycles with frequent start-ups and shut-downs. They can installed behind gas turbines of all power ratings, brands and burning all types of fuel.
The manufacture and maintenance of boiler parts, in particular pressure parts in its specialized workshop based in Mexico.
Aftersales services, technical assistance, inspections from the rehabilitation to the modernization of all types and brands of boilers;
Wet & dry cooling with cooling towers and air cooled condensers for power plants.
Thermal solar receivers (Concentrated Solar Power), that capture the sun’s rays, reflected by mirrors on the ground, and enable to produce energy 24/7 thanks to molten salts;
Industrial boilers destined for sectors such as chemicals, petrochemicals, biomass, incineration, …
Our teams also benefit from all the skills of John Cockerill’s Welding workshop, with specialized workers at the forefront of high-alloy welding techniques.

Mission & Scope

The Structural Engineer is an employee in charge of the structural and/or civil works engineering of the products of the Energy Sector of John Cockerill. He/She develops the technical documentation needed for the structural design of equipment for projects from the award of an order to the provisional acceptance of the equipment. The Structural Engineer is particularly responsible to ensure that the structural documentation of the projects is compliant to applicable codes and norms, to the contractual technical specifications and to internal standards as defined in the Design Process according to the QMS (quality management system) of the Energy Sector. 

The Structural Engineer is responsible for the structural and/or civil works engineering of products during project execution under the hierarchical responsibility of the Structural Manager and the functional responsibility of the Technical Project Manager with the following objectives: 

Customer satisfaction,  Conformance to applicable codes and norms, contractual scope of supply, Customer’s technical specifications, internal standards, and local regulations,  Quality, conformity, and completeness of the technical documentation,  Respect of document delivery schedules,  Optimisation of the design,  Control of internal and external interfaces. 

Main Responsibilities

The duties of the Structural Engineer are amongst others: 

Application of the Design Process,  Structural engineering of products for projects of the Energy Sector of John Cockerill,  Civil Works engineering,  Writing of design and manufacturing specifications,  Coordination of engineering surcontractons,  Participation to technical negotiations with manufacturers,  Follow-up of manufactures,  Optimisation of the design,  Conformity of the technical documentation to applicable codes and norms,  Respect of Customer specifications and requirements,  Technical risks assessments,  Application of standards and good practices,  Delivery of the technical documentation to the Project Team according to the schedule and within specified budget,

Profile

The Structural Engineer has a specialist profile. He/She must be available for temporary missions, sometimes on short notice, including international travel. 

He / She accedes to the essential values of John Cockerill: Human, committed, innovative, responsible, customer oriented.  His / Her soft skills are: Analytical mind, detailed focused, team spirit, results oriented.  Knowledge of codes and norms (AISC, ASCE, ASTM, IBC, ISO, EN, JIS, GB)  Knowledge on steel material properties  Structural calculation  Civil works engineering  Ability to read mechanical drawings  Application of internal technical choices  Understanding of his professional environment  Understanding of products and organization interfaces  Knowledge of the MS Office, particularly Excel  Knowledge of calculation and drawing softwares (RISA, STAAD, SCIA and Tekla)  Fluent in French and in English (reading, speaking, listening) 

Offer

John Cockerill Energy offers you more than just a job or a career but, above all, the opportunity to work on attractive projects. It is the opportunity to participate in the world of tomorrow You will have the opportunity to engage in the very concrete, very technical aspects of the projects but also to be creative and propose innovative solutions Do you want to take up the challenge?

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