AN EXCITING TIME TO BECOME A PETROFAC GRADUATE

It’s a fascinating field to work in, and as Petrofac is involved across every area of the energy lifecycle, there’s plenty of variety. We are looking for graduates that bring the right energy across disciplines, from engineering to business support functions such as business development and supply chain.
As a graduate at Petrofac, you will gain a breadth of experience working with world-class experts on some of the most significant energy projects. And of course, you won’t do it alone. Your mentors and colleagues will be with you every step of the way, offering advice, guidance, or just a friendly ear when needed.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Master’s degree in structural or mechanical engineering.

As a Graduate Structural Engineer, you will be providing support to design projects for new installations and to the ongoing operation of existing facilities across the world.

On joining the engineering team, you will be placed with your home discipline to support our project work. Following that assignment, you will have the opportunity to work in business development, project engineering, cost control and estimating. The aim is to provide a broad understanding of the business and open opportunities for further and deeper career development. You will also:

• Support projects from initial concept and field development studies through front-end engineering to detailed design, commissioning and operational support.

§ Apply your knowledge to the design of structures or civil works for onshore facilities.
§ Design of structurally efficient offshore support structures and topsides for wind farm substations, carbon capture or oil and gas platforms under applied environmental loads.
§ Model and analyse new or existing structures using finite element software such as Sesam, Abaqus, SACS and STAAD.
§ Analyse structures under abnormal or accident loads such as blast, ship impact and dropped objects.
§ Assess floating structures and moorings subject to wave and other environmental loading.
§ Produce project documents such as reports, basis of design documents, specifications etc.

Previous graduates have undertaken the following:

• Spent time offshore working on decommissioning a disused platform
• Travelled overseas on projects and business initiatives
• Developed a hybrid power study methodology for an offshore carbon capture platform
• Supported the cost control on a complex carbon capture project
• Built a quantified risk analysis model to support the regulatory application for a hydrogen plan in the UK.
• Joined the business development team to build relationships with potential and existing clients.
• Developed cost estimates for the overall development of projects to support client financial investment decisions.