SURF Installation Engineering

IOTA Group; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IOTA Group seeks a Senior Installation Engineer to supervise Detailed Engineering and review contractor documentation to secure schedule, cost, quality, and safety for SURF deepwater projects. The role requires coordinating with multiple disciplines and interfaces across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operation.

You will support the handover process, coordinate offshore campaigns, and ensure safe practices onboard vessels.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in engineering with subsea specialization.
• 15+ years’ experience in Oil & Gas deepwater projects as Installation Engineer.
• Knowledge of rigid pipelines, flexibles, risers and SURF transport/installation.
• Strong communication, leadership and cross-cultural collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Participate in supervision and control of Detailed Engineering by reviewing contractor documentation to ensure schedule, cost, quality and safety.
• Highlight unsafe design, deviations, or constructability issues and escalate as needed.
• Interface with other disciplines and packages engineers to ensure consistency of work across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and operation.
• Support handover processes to ensure smooth transition from SURF scope to commissioning readiness.
• Coordinate loadouts, MWS review, and interfaces with Logistics.
• Interface with Suriname affiliate for offshore works and ensure timely authorizations to start operations on site.
• Participate in offshore campaigns, installation phase, tests and handover during all campaigns.
• Ensure safe working practices onboard installation vessels during installation campaigns.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Organizational skills

Persuasion

Multicultural teamwork

Education

Master’s degree in engineering, subsea specialization

Job description

Our client is a global multi-energy company operating large-scale refining and petrochemical facilities. It transforms crude oil into fuels and essential industrial products through highly integrated and technologically advanced operations. The organisation is recognized for its strong HSE culture, operational excellence, and commitment to reducing environmental impact. Joining the company means contributing to complex international projects within a high-performance industrial environment.

Job Description

• Participate to the supervision and control of the Detailed Engineering by timely reviewing and validating the documentation related to the discipline issued by Contractors (technical documentation, queries and derogation requests), in compliance with SOR, Project Contractual technical specifications and procedures, Discipline requirements, international norms and Standards, with the objective to ensure respect of schedule, cost, quality and safety
• Raise consequently necessary comments and highlight unsafe design, deviations, unacceptable or unjustified design choices, constructability, installation and pre-commissioning issues
• Interface actively with other disciplines engineers and other packages engineers as necessary on all engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, operation and maintenance matters, in order to ensure consistency of the work
• Support the handover process and all means needed to ensure a smooth handover from start of SURF scope to commissioning readiness
• Coordinate loadouts, MWS review, interfaces with Logistics
• For any offshore works preparation, interface with relevant entities of the Suriname affiliate in order to ensure that authorizations to start operations on Site will be obtained in due time
• Participate to the loadouts, Installation Phase, tests, commissioning and handover during all the offshore work campaigns
• Ensure that safe working practices are used within the team along all phases of the project and mainly onboard the installation vessels during installation campaign

Qualifications

• Qualification: Master’s degree in engineering, with specialization in subsea pipeline/risers,
• At least 15 years’ professional experience in Oil & Gas deepwater projects, as Installation Engineer, onshore and offshore,
• Knowledge on rigid pipelines, flexibles, risers and in general transport and installation of SURF scope
• Good communication skills, dynamism, high motivation, ability to convince, organized, leadership and ability to put issues into perspective. Ability to work on projects in a complex and multicultural environment.

Additional Information

• Starting date: ASAP
• Duration: 12 months
• Renewable: Yes
• Locations: France at first and then Suriname/ Resident with travelling to Europe, Egypt, Brazil, USA
• Status: Residential

Job Summary

• Location
  Paris, IDF, France
• Job type
  Full-time