Senior Installation Analysis Engineer

Job Overview

The Senior Installation Analysis Engineer plays a vital role in enhancing the Installation Analysis discipline by applying advanced knowledge and best practices. This position offers technical leadership to less experienced team members, addressing complex challenges to improve products and services within installation analysis. The engineer participates across various operational, project, and service activities following appropriate guidelines and company policies.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute conceptual, FEED, and detailed design activities adhering to project specifications, design bases, codes, and standards.
• Lead engineering teams in the capacity of Project Coordinator when assigned on projects.
• Apply expertise to various standard and unique engineering scenarios.
• Develop comprehensive design calculations, analyses, reports, and procedures with clarity and accuracy.
• Effectively manage time to ensure deadlines and budget targets are met, planning short-term activities independently.
• Communicate complex technical issues clearly to establish common understanding.
• Provide engineering support onboard installation vessels offshore as necessary.
• Maintain thorough understanding of project scope, specifications, schedules, and interdisciplinary dependencies, addressing issues proactively.
• Identify and report scope changes promptly with supporting documentation and estimates; handle variation orders similarly.
• Collaborate with all disciplines to produce clash-free designs and coordinate inputs from other departments to support design and drawings development.
• Engage closely with engineering disciplines, planning, fabrication, marine, and project management teams as required.
• Document significant communications and forward to Discipline Lead Engineer.
• Assist with bid proposal preparations including technical query reviews, execution plans, and effort estimates.
• Raise technical queries to clarify scope and maintain compliance with procedures, standards, and operational requirements.
• Contribute to preparation of engineering design basis documentation, philosophies, and technical specifications.
• Ensure deliverables lists are finalized in compliance with required specifications and functionality.
• Participate in project, vendor, engineering meetings, and offshore surveys as needed.
• Offer technical guidance and review to designers for construction and installation engineering products.
• Prepare and review technical design reports, assist other disciplines with design inputs to progress deliverables.
• Support procurement through equipment, material, and service requisition preparation and evaluations, coordinating with Procurement and ensuring alignment with customer objectives.
• Update weight reports with vendor information.
• Review engineering work by peers within the discipline with single-discipline and inter-discipline checks.
• Provide technical assistance to fabrication queries including defect identification and correction.
• Keep Lead Engineer informed of technical, budgetary, and staffing issues.
• Contribute inputs for progress reporting, planning, and forecasting including productivity.
• Participate in internal and external technical audits for engineering deliverables and vendor documents.
• Assist in responding to customer and third-party review inquiries.
• Capture lessons learned and submit to the company’s Lessons Learned system.
• Mentor junior engineers regarding procedures, standards, calculations, software tools, requisitions, and technical evaluations.
• Maintain awareness of cost implications related to individual and discipline work.
• In Pipeline Installation focus, conduct or review designs and analyses for pipelines, risers, spools, PLETS, manifolds, and cables.
• In Structural Installation focus, perform or review designs and procedures for loadout, transportation, and installation of offshore structures including modifications.
• In Naval Installation focus, handle designs and analyses relating to marine operations such as loadout, transportation, and installation.
• Preferred skills for additional duties include designing erection sequences for jackets and topsides, loadout procedures, construction lift analyses, weighing procedures, design of fabrication yard items, crane and rigging arrangements, and trailer operations with respective documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Naval Architecture, Civil, Structural, or Mechanical Engineering; a Master's degree is advantageous.
• 8 to 15 years of relevant experience in oil and gas, primarily in construction and installation design with leading contractors or consultants.
• Comprehensive knowledge of design and analysis techniques, applicable codes, standards, and offshore/onshore construction practices.
• Registration as a Professional Engineer or membership in a recognized engineering society is preferred.

Additional Information

This role reports to the Discipline Lead Engineer and necessitates cooperation with multiple departments including Engineering, Fabrication, Safety, Document Control, Procurement, Subcontractors, Project Management, Vendors, and Clients. The position also involves supervising junior engineers.

About the Company

With over a century of industry presence, the company specializes in innovative energy infrastructure solutions including subsea installations and offshore platform construction. The organization employs over 30,000 professionals across 54 nations, actively contributing to the global energy transition.