Principal Maritime Engineer with dock/lock gate experience in Aberdeen

This is an opportunity for a Principal Engineer with approximately 15+ years of experience, looking to join an engineering consultancy in a globally recognised Maritime team. The role requires knowledge and experience of the design and installation of dock and/or lock gates.

Are you looking to be part of a growing team with the opportunity for growth or your next career step? Have a true passion to align business growth ambitions with the external world? This role will give you the opportunity to drive our business agenda with a key focus on international shipyards and defence facilities.

At Haskoning, you will join an independent, employee‐owned international consultancy that combines engineering, design, and consultancy services with software and technology. Our mission, "Enhancing Society Together," drives us to create a positive impact on the world. We offer purpose‐driven and challenging work in diverse international projects, leveraging our 140+ years of expertise.

Our global Maritime team is over six hundred strong and is at the forefront of innovative international maritime planning, design, and development. We are multi‐disciplinary experts that work on international projects to create successful ports, shipyards, and maritime infrastructure worldwide.

If you are an Engineer with dock/lock gate, floating pontoons, or other similar floating structure experience and looking to work on globally significant projects, this role would provide you a step‐up in the career ladder. This role will provide great exposure to local and global projects alike, whilst working with the leading professionals within the maritime and shipyard sector.

The role will require you to use your technical and practical experience to develop engineering design solutions for maritime civil engineering structures and dock/lock gates in ports and shipyards, using steel, concrete, timber, and other materials to relevant design codes.

You will have engineering input in all project stages from inception, through design and construction, to demolition, recycling, and reuse. Your technical and commercial experience, and liaison with multi‐disciplinary teams will be vital to the success of the projects you work on.

Job Responsibilities:

• Prepare designs and analyses for maritime and associated structures for ports and shipyards, including the structural design of dock and lock gates.
• Produce design calculations, check, and review calculations produced by others.
• Check and review models and drawings prior to issue.
• Provide guidance to more junior staff including project managers, engineers, graduates, technicians, and admin staff working on your projects.
• Work alongside your peers and the senior management team to develop continual improvements to our ways of working.
• Prepare Bills of Quantities, Contract Documents and Specifications.
• Undertake structural analyses and reporting.
• Give presentations to client organisations and internal audiences.
• Provide engineering judgment and advice.
• Review (or prepare) study reports to a high standard of written English.
• Provide commercial awareness of projects to deliver profitable results within programme by setting and agreeing expectations and achieving on‐time delivery.
• Project Manager for small and medium sized projects, or Technical Manager on large/complex projects.
• Contribute to local, national, and international business development efforts through the production of proposals and interaction with clients.

Desirable Skills And Experience:

• Analytical Ability – lead design and analysis work with limited support.
• Conceptual Ability – capable of undertaking design from concept to ready for construction.
• Communication Skills – clearly articulate orally and in writing the reasons behind your decisions.
• Client Orientation – understands the importance of the client's perception of the organisation.
• Problem Solving – think laterally and develop solutions to problems with others and on your own.
• Relationship Building – build a network within the immediate team, and the wider organisation as a trusted advisor to our clients.
• Solution Orientation – deliver project objectives without losing focus in the detail.
• Organised – show organisation, discipline, and a structured, consistent approach in the way you work.
• Personable – approachable, relatable, and empathetic.
• Responsible – Autonomy and responsibility to work without supervision.
• Demonstrate experience in the development of port or shipyard infrastructure, such as heavy‐duty quays, dry docks, and dock gates.
• Experience in the design of floating steel structures such as dock and lock gates and pontoons, or other similar structures is essential.
• Willing to travel occasionally throughout the UK and overseas.
• Demonstrate commitment to training of junior staff e.g. as Delegated Engineer or Supervising Civil Engineer within an ICE training scheme.

Note: Even if you feel you do not meet all the role requirements described above, please still apply. We value applications from a range of backgrounds – so please highlight additional skills you could bring to the role.

What We can offer You:

Ambitious. Exciting. Lively. Collaborative. Dynamic. That is how our colleagues describe our company. Want to contribute to enhancing society with your expertise? Be part of an open network where you are connected with the brightest and smartest people and technologies?

You can look forward to growing your career in a dynamic workplace with development opportunities and support on your career path. We have flexible working models to ensure a balance of family and working life.