Lead Project Engineer

Overview

Lead engineer for cable installation projects, ensuring high-quality, safety, and client satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities

• technical docs
• installation design
• risk assessment
• project delivery
• client coordination
• safety management

Tasks

The Lead Engineer will have responsibility for planning and coordinating the technical expertise and services required to ensure successful delivery of high quality engineering to meet commercial and technical needs. The Lead Engineer is expected to improve the work processes and be a technical governance for the discipline. The scope will include studies and tenders as well as live projects. -Train / mentor more junior engineers. -Sign and issue technical documentation as originator checker or approver, accepting personal responsibility for its adequacy. -Ensure full traceability of the technical development of the assigned scope throughout the life of the project -Promote personal development and regular engagement with the professional engineering community. -Understand the clients' needs; identifies and addresses design parameters and problems; develops and implements solutions. -Manage the co-ordination/compilation of as-built material and commercial aspects of contractual variations from site/fabricators/offshore. -Actively engage in knowledge sharing, capture lessons learned and application of engineering standards. -Ensure feasibility of proposed methodology and ensures buy in from all parties including offshore personnel. -Manage the preparation of any engineering analysis of tasks relating to installation, to ensure the structural/operational integrity of the equipment during installation. -Ensure that specifications and scopes of work within the assigned project scope have been reviewed and agreed by the relevant centres of competence and that all quality issues are captured in the relevant quality control plan. -Engineering team mental health. -Supervise and be involved in design of installation aids and other equipment required for use offshore or for use onshore in preparation for offshore activities. Manage resources to witness directly or liaise with Inspectors to ensure that suitable contractual activities such as load test, trial fits, are being carried out in accordance with minimum requirements. -Support the Principal Engineer and Project Engineering Manager in performing and coordinating engineering for successful project delivery. -Ensure the selection of suitable equipment to perform operational tasks offshore, checking all aspects of the equipment to ensure it is operated safely and efficiently with suitable certification provided to meet statutory regulations. Also liaise with vessel departments and third party contractors to ensure all equipment is fit for purpose and fully compatible with offshore worksite. -Organise HIRA reviews with all required stakeholders, making sure that highlighted actions are realized. -Agree and monitor performance objectives with direct reports. -Ensure all relevant safety objectives and legal requirements are observed. -Sign and issue technical documentation as originator or checker, accepting personal responsibility for its adequacy. -Ensure feasibility, soundness and best adequation of proposed methodology for shallow water cable laying, trenching and other operations. -Ensure all tools and equipment are available onsite for a safe execution of the work. -Ensure proposed methodology is the safest possible. -Provide specialist skills, integrity and knowledge in project or tender engineering, including design codes, legislative requirements and current good engineering practice. -Actively engage in project risk assessment/ mitigation processes. -Undertake responsibility for review and production of deliverables, such as execution plans, design calculations ,specifications, procedures, analyses, progress reports, Scopes of Work, bid evaluations, study reports and various 3rd-party documentations. -Represent the Company in meetings/correspondence with clients, subcontractors, 3rd parties etc., in a technical capacity. -Project delivery in a timely and efficient manner. -Under limited supervision, independently evaluates, organizes and prioritises work.

Requirements

• cable installation
• shallow water
• postgraduate degree
• analytical skills
• team player
• problem solving

What You Bring

-Expert with proven ability over an extended breadth of execution. -Able to work with minimum supervision, solution provider. -Acquainted in Legislations and Standards as relevant for the area of responsibility. -Understand supply chain management processes and key commodity strategies -Understand clients’ needs and able to suggest and apply “fit for purpose” solutions. -Sound communication skills – able to communicate ideas and results to various stakeholders both in written reports and in meetings, presentations etc. -Project team and client satisfaction with provided solution. -Level of knowledge in cable installation. -Innovative solutions and creative problem solving - able to suggest and develop new methods and ways of working. -Able to work in a team as and prioritise own work and as such have responsibility for discrete work packages ongoing simultaneously. -Good interpersonal skills, team-player. -Quality of project and tenders deliverables. -Strong analytical skills. -Post Graduate Engineering degree or equivalent qualification. -Familiar with systems and procedures as relevant for the area of responsibility. -Good knowledge of cable laying including shallow water installation experience. -Strong focus on technical knowledge within discipline.

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