SURF Installation Engineering

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

Benefits offered by this job

Residential assignment

Travel opportunities

Job summary

Iotagroup is seeking a Senior Installation Engineer for SURF scope in France, with offshore experience and strong leadership to supervise detailed engineering and coordinate interfaces across disciplines. The role includes handover to commissioning and on-site execution across multiple locations.

The candidate will manage offshore campaigns, ensure safety, and drive timely completion while coordinating with logistics and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in engineering with subsea pipeline/risers specialization.
• 15+ years of professional experience in oil & gas deepwater projects as Installation Engineer (onshore/offshore).
• Experience leading and coordinating multidisciplinary teams in complex projects.
• Strong communication, organization and leadership in multicultural environments.

Responsibilities

• Participate in supervision and control of Detailed Engineering; review docs from Contractors.
• Raise comments and highlight unsafe design or deviations.
• Interface with other disciplines to ensure work consistency.
• Support handover from SURF scope to commissioning readiness.
• Coordinate loadouts, MWS review, and logistics interfaces.
• Lead offshore works preparation and ensure authorizations for start of operations.
• Participate in installation campaigns, tests, commissioning, and handover.
• Ensure safe working practices onboard installation vessels.

Skills

Communication skills

Leadership

Organized

Motivation

Persuasive ability

Education

Master's degree in engineering (subsea pipelines/risers)

Tools

Rigid pipelines knowledge

Flexibles and risers knowledge

SURF transport & installation

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
• 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.
• 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