Principal Engineer, Offshore Structures

Principal Engineer, Offshore Structures

Working Location

South East England

Hampshire

Permanent

Hybrid working with strong remote flexibility

International travel opportunities, both short and long term

About the Role

If you're an Offshore Structural Engineer ready to lead a design team and set the technical direction on substructures and topsides across major international projects, this role offers real authority and scope.

You will work with a well-established engineering organisation delivering major offshore energy projects internationally. You will lead the offshore structures design team, guide how structural analysis is executed across feasibility, FEED, and detailed design, and take a proactive role in key technical decisions.

Why This Role Stands Out

• Principal-level leadership of an offshore structures design team
• Full lifecycle scope including feasibility, FEED, detailed design, and brownfield assessment
• Technical variety covering fixed structures, floaters, foundations, and advanced non-linear analysis
• Hybrid working with strong remote flexibility
• International travel opportunities, both short and long term

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and direct structural engineers across one project or multiple work packages
• Set up internal workflows and plan the team's activities
• Execute structural analysis for offshore substructures and topsides
• Define the best technical solutions across feasibility, FEED, and detailed design
• Review the team's technical documentation and analyses before issue
• Prepare sketch drawings, concept work, and feasibility studies
• Define and follow up tender documentation, steering bidders to efficient solutions
• Organise offshore resource workloads with planners and project management
• Liaise with other discipline leads through project execution
• Tutor and mentor junior structural engineers

Requirements

• Strong experience in analysis and design of offshore structures to ISO 19900 series, API RP 2A, and AISC
• Ability to build and verify FEM models of fixed structures, including jackets and topsides, for in-place and temporary conditions
• Experience designing foundation systems, including piles and mud mats
• Experience in brownfield re-design, life extension, and reliability analysis
• Non-linear analysis capability including blast, dropped objects, impact, redundancy, and pushover
• Experience with floaters design
• Familiarity with offshore materials, fabrication, and installation
• Proficiency with tools such as SESAM Suite, USFOS, ANSYS, and SACS
• Degree in Civil, Offshore, Structural, or Aerospace/Aeronautical Engineering with a focus on structures