Senior Civil/Structural Engineer

Senior Civil/Structural Engineer

Career opportunities in Europe

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Hitachi Energy's Grid & Power Quality Solutions and Service global product group is a world-leading provider of grid connections and power quality solutions that enable our customers to build a more sustainable, flexible and secure energy system. We leverage our long-standing technology leadership, vast integration expertise, huge installed base and global footprint to provide our customers with life-cycle value solutions at the lowest risk. Our customers are in the utility, renewables, industry, transportation, data centers and infrastructure sectors.

Our business in Europe has more than 1,000 skilled professionals focused on critical areas of expertise and is present in 16 countries.

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Join Our Team!

We are looking for a Senior Civil/Structural Engineer to join our Project Civil Engineering organization in Västerås, Sweden

How you'll make an impact
As a Senior Civil/Structural Engineer you will support the project team. Be the main interface to client and for contractors for many aspects of civil related tasks/works, as well as lead external civil design companies in our projects and handle inhouse design. Your task is focused on supporting in projects execution as the expert in the field of Civil/Structural engineering and developing the way of working.  You will be responsible for challenging and varied duties in different projects carried out in cooperation with other specialists. The customer-oriented project work requires the ability to work independently and to take initiative.

To succeed in this task, you need to have broad experience of structural/civil design work, or have site supervision experience with a design background, and good teamwork and communication skills. Preferably you have experience of project business and want to broaden your professional expertise and responsibilities, we offer you the possibility.  

In this role we will offer you:

• A working environment where two working days are not alike, due to different tasks and interesting challenges in project business.

• A meaningful role in our organization as an expert

• The opportunity to influence the project execution strategy and ways of working

• The opportunity to influence your job description based on your skills, experience and interests.

• A possibility to developing technically solid and cost-efficient solutions in projects

• A possibility to create a good network with subcontractors and design companies

Depending on your experience and areas of interest, your responsibilities will include:

• To be the specialist in civil/structural related questions during project execution

• Supporting the project team by steering civil related matters keeping projects on track technically, financially and schedule vice

• Be responsible for Civil and Structural design in smaller projects

• Leading external civil company design and making sure the outcome is qualitative and cost effective in bigger projects

• Be the voice to wards the customer in civil related matters

• Review of the relevant sections of the contract and supporting preparing civil design and civil works quotations

Your background

• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in construction/civil engineering

• Experience in civil/structural design or site supervision with a design background. Ideally from industrial project business.

• Basic construction software user skills, e.g., Auto CAD

• Good problem-solving and decision-making skills

• Fluent in English and Swedish.

• Ability to communicate and work effectively with various project teams and internal/external partners.

Ideally, you have

• Experience from project business

• Construction design skills and basic architectural design skills.

• Knowledge of 3D design tools and building information modelling (BIM)

Interested in joining the team? We look forward to receiving your application. Please note that we will initiate interviews as candidates apply and position will be filled as soon as a suitable candidate is found.