Senior Structural Engineer (Design) in Glasgow

Wood is currently sourcing Senior Structural Engineer candidates for an Expression of Interest role we may have available within our Operations team in Glasgow. For strong structural engineers, an exciting opportunity to shift beyond conventional buildings and infrastructure and apply your technical capability where it will have industry‐wide impact. The energy sector—Blue & Green hydrogen projects, energy transition projects, Sustainable Aviation Fuel and Carbon Capture projects - needs engineers who can think critically, design elegantly, and bring rigour to complex structural challenges.

If you're working toward IStructE registration in the next 12–24 months, this transition not only accelerates your professional growth but exposes you to an environment where advanced analysis, novel materials, and unique loading conditions become part of your day‐to‐day engineering toolkit. Moving into oil & gas decarbonisation and green energy means stepping into a role where your work directly contributes to the global energy transition. Engineers entering this sector play a vital part in extending the life of existing assets safely, reducing emissions through smarter design, and enabling the rollout of large‐scale renewable technologies that will power the decades ahead.

It's a space where your structural expertise becomes a catalyst for change—helping industry move from traditional carbon-heavy operations to cleaner, more efficient, more sustainable solutions. If you're looking for a career move that blends challenge, purpose, and long‐term opportunity, this is where you can make a real difference.

P&E offers a wide range of opportunities which will allow you to develop your skills across a portfolio of onshore projects in different sectors. Our current portfolio includes green hydrogen and fuel switching, as well as supporting local clients with energy transition. Additionally, we work on UK refineries, petrochemical facilities, fine chemicals and pharmaceutical facilities. We have a number of clients who we are working with to design their pilot plants to test exciting new technologies, with a view to partnering with them as they move to design and build full scale commercial facilities.

Wood is a global leader in consulting, engineering and operations for the energy and materials sectors. With 33,000 people in around 50 countries, Wood supports clients across the full asset lifecycle, delivering safe, predictable outcomes while enabling resilient operations and a lower carbon future. Wood forms the Energy & Materials pillar of Sidara - a global partnership uniting leading multidisciplinary engineering, design, and project management companies.

All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws. At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team.

Degree Qualifications

• MEng (Hons) Civil Engineering

Professional Qualifications

• IStructE (or preparing to sit)

Skills/Experience:

• Experienced design in buildings and large infrastructure projects designing in reinforced concrete elements and structural steelwork elements
• Design to Eurocodes and to older British standards such as BS5950 and BS8110 advantageous
• Computer literate and can use TEDDS, Tekla Structures, Tekla Structural Designer, STAAD Pro and / or other similar analysis packages
• Experience of design and analysis of older (pre Eurocodes) legacy structures advantageous including design beyond code limits
• Experience of design of structures beyond design life would be desirable but not strictly required
• Experience of working on Front End Engineering, (FFED), studies preferred
• Providing discipline expertise: exercises mature professional judgment in evaluating and selecting technical strategic options
• As necessary, modifies established guidelines, devises new approaches, applies existing criteria in new ways and draws conclusions from comparative situations
• Regularly functions as a technical leader or significant contributor to a major complex problem or project
• Produces innovative ideas and solves problems requiring development of new approaches or new uses for existing approaches
• Consistently called on to use creativity and professional judgement to formulate results based on engineering standards, experience and constructive thinking
• Develops unique solutions for complex technical problems
• Anticipates potential problems and takes the initiative to solve complex problems through creative thinking and creative use of internal and external resources both inside and outside of discipline expertise
• Exercises mature professional judgement in identifying the implications of experimental results
• Understands customer needs and applies technical solutions to meet goals
• Provide technical input and support to proposals as required

Full time

Posting Date: 2026-02-27