SURF Installation Engineering

IOTA GROUP; Paris; On-site; EUR 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IOTA GROUP seeks a Senior Installation Engineer for SURF offshore projects, based in France with future deployments to Suriname and other international sites. You will supervise Detailed Engineering, review contractor documentation, and ensure compliance with SOR, specs, standards, schedule, cost, quality, and safety.

You will coordinate with multi-disciplinary teams, raise comments on unsafe design, support handover to commissioning, and manage offshore loadouts and interfaces to logistics.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in engineering with subsea pipeline/risers specialization.
• 15+ years of experience in Oil & Gas deepwater projects as Installation Engineer (onshore/offshore).
• Knowledge of rigid pipelines, flexibles, risers and SURF transport/installation.
• Strong communication, leadership, and ability to manage complex multicultural projects.

Responsibilities

• Supervise Detailed Engineering and validate discipline documentation from Contractors to meet schedule, cost, quality and safety targets.
• Raise comments and flag unsafe design, deviations, or constructability issues.
• Interface with other discipline engineers to ensure consistency across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and maintenance.
• Support handover processes from SURF scope to commissioning readiness and ensure smooth transition.
• Coordinate loadouts, MWS review and interfaces with Logistics.
• Interface with Suriname affiliate for offshore preparation and site authorizations.
• Participate in loadouts, installation phase, tests, commissioning and handover during offshore campaigns.
• Ensure safe working practices on all phases, especially onboard installation vessels.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Team coordination

Multicultural teamwork

Education

Master's degree in engineering (subsea)

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