Structural Engineer Summer Placement

About you:

Join us. Unleash your energy within.

If you have world-class ambitions to reach the stars while keeping your feet on the ground, we’re the team for you. We've created a new breed of company – future-focused with reimagined ambition across all disciplines within the energy sector.

We love people who know their own potential and are not afraid to use it. We know that together, we’re far more than the sum of our parts. So, we celebrate people who want to grow and develop as we work together on some of the largest projects on the energy world stage.

Our purpose and beliefs:

As Kent, we’re tackling the greatest challenge of our time - to bring our world the energy it needs in the most responsible way ever imagined.

It’s the energy of every member of our team driven by our beliefs that is making this happen. Whatever our skill, our language, or our culture. These beliefs define and direct us every day to be the very best - for ourselves, our clients, our key stakeholders, the communities we operate in and the planet:

We PLAY BIG

We thrive on EMOTIONAL AGILITY

We are FANATICAL ABOUT PERFORMANCE

We are built on INFINITE THINKING

Read more about the Purpose, Beliefs and Guiding Principles that drive us: https://kentplc.com/who-we-are/purpose-beliefs

Scope of Work:

The Structures Team at Kent has a summer placement opportunity, open to mechanical and civil engineering students in their third year and above. If you’d like to apply, please upload a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application. Note that the closing date for applications is 30/04/2023.

As a member of our London team you will be using linear and non-linear finite element assessment methods to assess existing structures for the purposes of brownfield development, asset management, life extension and decommissioning. Within the offshore wind sector, you will have the opportunity to support the winning and delivery of our global portfolio of projects including concept and detailed design.

This will include everything from hand calculations and written reports, to linear and non-linear analysis work. The role will allow you to develop technical and project skills through targeted training & on the job experience.

The starting date is flexible, but we’re looking for the candidate to be available for at least eight weeks over the summer period. Our office is located in Victoria, Central London. We anticipate that you'll be in the office most of the time as it's vital for your development at an early stage in your career to learn in-person from your team and those around you, however, there is potential for working from home too.

Key Responsibilities:

• Designing the next phase of the world’s offshore wind farms, whether that’s floating or fixed foundations as well as Offshore Substations, from concepts right through to operation.
• Creating finite element models in our advanced structural analysis teams using a variety of software and programming languages.
• Developing life extension plans for ageing structures in the O&G market as well as power boosts for OSW WTGs.
• Designing large scale multi-disciplinary greenfield and brownfield oil & gas projects.
• Improving efficiency offshore through inspection activities, development of risk-based inspection work scopes and operational support.
• Determining the fatigue and fracture reliability of structures with our highly specialised experts.
• Interfacing directly with clients, representing our teams to discuss engineering solutions to complex problems.

Key Requirements:

• Working towards a degree in Civil, Mechanical or Structural Engineering.
• A passion for working in a consultancy environment.
• Embracing equality, diversity and inclusion in everything you do.
• A desire to work collaboratively with a curious approach, challenging yourself to find new solutions.
• Enthusiasm and drive to develop your skillset and seek out development opportunities within a supportive team.

Comfortable to embrace agile ways of working and learning new technologies.