Subsea Pipeline Design Engineer

Role summary

Under the responsibility of the team dedicated to flowline in-place design, your main responsibilities will be to:

• Perform flowline design analyses critically reviewing the results, exploring alternatives and documenting them in technical notes.

• Collaborate in preparing the MTOs (Material Take-Offs).

• Conduct main in-place pipeline design activities such as sizing, stability, FEM analyses for lateral buckling and pipeline walking.

• Integrate a team dedicated to flowline in-place design for execution of projects and tenders.

• Ensure design and detailing in accordance with acknowledged industry Codes, Standards and Design Guides, Client Specifications and Scopes of Work, and internal standards.

• Production and checking of design documentation including feasibility reports, detailed in-place design reports, specifications, material take-offs, etc.

• Be aware of the Overall project / Tender planning and responsible of the planning of his / her Scope of Work.

• Ensure progress and compliance of the supplier in close interface with SCM function.

• Follow-up pipeline design activities, fabrications, and testing.

• Ensure the work is performed in accordance with the latest HSEQ and Group procedures.

• Provide engineering assistance during mobilisations and occasional periods of offshore or site working, including FATs, SITs, Pre-commissioning, etc.

• Participate as required in events such as Bid Clarifications, Kick off meetings, HIRAs, Design Reviews, etc.

• Check that the procedure and analysis match the project objectives.

• Attend to project audits related to Engineering Activities as and when required.

• Attend to project engineering reviews as and when required.

• Provide technical engineering support to other departments within the Engineering Group, the Project Engineering Group, and to colleagues in terms of training and mentoring.

• Ensure that know-how is transferred within the discipline & attend to discipline meeting as required.

Qualifications

• MSc or PhD in mechanical engineering/hydrodynamics, with relevant work experience in the oil and gas industry or equivalent, with experiences of pipeline systems analysis.

• Proficiency in FEM software for pipeline analysis.

• Knowledge of Python language is required.

• Fluent English

• Undertake responsibility for production of deliverables, which may include engineering support to Drafting Office, design calculations, specifications, procedures, analyses, progress reports, bid evaluations, study reports and various 3rd-party submissions.

• Experience in working in a multi-disciplined system engineering team

• Ability to prioritise own workload, manage time accordingly and inform team members where constraints will affect a project in terms of programme or budget.

• Demonstrable ability to work within time/budget constraints

• Ability in Vendor and 3rd Party interface

• Ability in working in multicultural group

Conditions

• Majority of the work is carried out in the regional main office site – Paris

• Offshore / Off-site location during project Execution phase as required.

• Working hours according to local regulation and Company's policy