Senior Structural Engineer

<p>Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 talented people in over 70 countries dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.</p> <p><strong>Role description:</strong></p> <p>This role is part of Arcadis’ Global Excellence Centre (GEC) and will join our 3,000+ talented individuals working in India, Romania, and Philippines, in partnership with Arcadis’ offices globally. The GEC brings key capabilities and capacity to support our clients seamlessly around the world.  For those in GEC there are options to be dedicated to one country; developing deep knowledge and strong relationships, as well as opportunities to be part of teams working truly globally as a centre of excellence, offering diversity and variety.  Arcadians are by nature, globally minded and culturally aware, and Arcadis strongly believes in flexibility which enables change over time as your career progresses. The GEC model is well embedded in Arcadis, and the strong relationships that exist between our global offices are truly unique. </p> <p>Arcadis delivers several structural services to (internal and external) clients, ranging from simple and straightforward structural calculations to complex advanced simulations of structural behavior. More complex structural services are taken care of by the team ‘High End Finite Element Analysis’ (HE-FEA). HE-FEA is not a team in the strict sense; the team members belong to different groups, business areas and countries.</p> <p>The work can be characterized as ‘pioneering’: it requires to interpret codes and guidelines in new situations, often without precedent. It requires creative rethinking of available procedures, using advanced software with complex material models. Almost always there’s a need to explore hidden margins in structural safety, and therefore a critical and responsible attitude is key in delivering a reliable and safe result. </p> <p><strong>Role accountabilities:</strong></p> <p>The work is carried out as teamwork, where all team members bring in their competences. Junior/Medior team members are supervised by a senior colleague; this serves a proper sharing of responsibility and optimizes the learning curve. Always 4 eyes should see a result or delivery, and preferably the second pair of eyes is already involved from the project start-up.</p> <ul> <li>Performing calculation, analysis and providing recommendations and conclusions; </li> <li>Providing technical advice to project team members;</li> <li>Reviewing and ensuring compliance in the components of the project for which you have responsibility, including drawings, reports, specifications and studies;</li> <li>Building and maintaining effective relationships with partners on projects; </li> <li>Liaising with the Line Manager to keep informed of all developments associated with the project;</li> <li>Maintaining a good understanding of the background of the Regional Arcadis business to facilitate building effective and enduring relationships and consolidating both company and personal credibility in the industry;</li> <li>Providing direction to the project team, leading by example to achieve goals and championing a quality, innovative, client-focused culture.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Qualifications &amp; Experience:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Relevant Structural engineering degree</li> <li>Analytical mindset and self-learning attitude</li> <li>Experienced in reinforced concrete structural calculations.</li> <li>Experienced and competent in finite element analysis and application</li> <li>Thorough understanding of concrete mechanics, including cracking and crushing, bond-slip and reinforcement behavior (yielding, rupture);</li> <li>Understanding of steel mechanics (yielding, fatigue);</li> <li>More general: understanding both brittle and ductile failure behavior;</li> <li>Basic understanding of dynamics (eigen modes and frequencies, damping);</li> <li>Thorough understanding of the finite element method, including mesh quality;</li> <li>Understanding of implicit numeric solvers (including the incremental iterative method) and explicit solvers.</li> <li>Symbolic mathematic skills (MathCad);</li> <li>Experience with applications like DIANA FEA or LS-DYNA.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Nice to have:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Geotechnical knowledge can be considered a plus</li> <li>Experienced of designing special types of structural elements like bridge abutments and piles or concrete massifs (solid) elements like retaining walls, locks or dams</li> <li>Piled foundations design and special foundation experience</li> <li>Hydrotechnical Structural design experience may be considered an advantage</li> <li>Experience and interest in scripting and automation tools</li> <li>Good struc