Senior Marine Operations Engineer jobs in Aberdeen

Our client is a world-class player in engineering, technologies and project management services for oil and gas, subsea and offshore industries.

They employ a workforce of 23,000 people worldwide in 46 countries and have a turnover of almost 7 billion Euros, which ranks them among the 5 major players in full-service engineering and construction services in the field of hydrocarbons and petrochemicals.

With nearly 50 years of experience working on behalf of its clients, for the most part international and national oil companies; our client executes infrastructure projects that are increasingly ambitious, complex and demanding: ultra-deep waters, extreme climates, mega-sized projects, non-conventional resources and optimization of environmental performance. As a result of strong growth they are looking to appoint an experienced Senior Marine Operations Engineer. This opportunity will be well suited to an individual with a specialism in subsea lifting. Ideally it will suit a Structural Engineer or Naval Architect with an operational background.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Senior Marine Operations Engineer you will be responsible for the provision of marine lifting/installations engineering support for offshore construction, diving, marine, pipelay operations. The successful applicant will also act as the Technical Authority for marine operations engineering and lifting/deployment operations.

Your duties and responsibilities as Senior Marine Operations Engineer will also encompass the following:

• Provision of construction and lifting engineering support on offshore construction and decommissioning projects
• Project risk assessment and management
• Scheduling assistance
• Maintenance of best practice lessons learnt and procedures
• Liaison and provision of support to other departments
• Offshore vessel visits and mobilisation attendance
• Supervision of Lifting Engineers
• Technical review of projects and tenders
• Operational installation engineering
• Support Capex justification
• Review and approval of lifting analyses
• Control and update of crane curves
• Interface with crane manufacturers
• Input in wire rope policy
• Technip representation on industry committees
• Incident investigations
• Provision of operational engineering support to capital projects
• Vessel Assurance support - hull structures, lifting devices, vessel class issues, pipelay equipment, diving systems
• Support to the Research and Development (R&D) programme
• Design input to vessel assets
• Third party vessel audits, suitability assessments
• Knowledge management, lessons learned and best practice for new builds and conversions

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential:
• Experienced in the use of engineering analysis tools
• Relevant engineering degree
• UKOOA (Offshore Operators Association) offshore medical or equivalent

Preferred:
• RGIT offshore training or equivalent
• Membership of RINA or IMarEST

EXPERIENCE

Essential Experience/Skill/Knowledge:
• More than 5 years experience in offshore/subsea construction industry
• Supervisory experience with a solutions based attitude
• Engineering for offshore lifting and construction operations including heavy lifts
• Engineering modelling tools e.g. Orcaflex
• General Information Technology (IT) skills
• Competent in using Class Rules and Guidelines

Preferred Experience/Skill/Knowledge:

• More than 10 years experience in offshore/subsea construction industry - Particular involvement in heavy lift engineering
• Working offshore
• Rigid pipelay operations
• Construction and lifting operations
• Flexible pipelay operations
• Trenching operations
• Remote intervention operations
• Diving operations
• Planning for subsea projects
• Presentation skills