Graduate Project Engineer

DeepOcean; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

DeepOcean offers a graduate engineering scheme designed to launch recent graduates into a challenging subsea career. The two-year program combines onshore training with offshore exposure, supporting career development, progression, and chartership opportunities.

Participants work on engineering tasks, assist in marine operations, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver safe, compliant project outcomes while gaining hands-on experience across oil & gas, offshore renewables, and

Qualifications

• Higher education degree in engineering or science.
• Degree accredited by Engineering Council.

Responsibilities

• Complete graduate objectives
• Attend training courses
• Perform engineering tasks safely and accurately
• Participate in offshore jobs as part of operations team
• Assist planning and execution of marine operations
• Follow design/fabrication of tools/structures
• Assist vessel mobilisation and offshore operation
• Ensure clients receive documentation and updates on progress
• Liaise with HSEQS for project-specific requirements and paperwork

Skills

Teamwork

Time management

English fluency

Proactive

Education

Engineering degree (accredited)

Job description

If you’re the type of person who likes to meet challenges head on, then you’ll find many like-minded people here at DeepOcean. Our clients have become accustomed to our habit of accepting just about any challenge, fix most problems they might struggle with. Our company is built on a willingness to always seek improvements and find safe and sound solutions. This spirit yields not only results for us as a company but also creates development opportunities for you as an employee.

The DeepOcean graduate engineering scheme is a fantastic opportunity for recent graduates to start an exciting career in the subsea sector working within oil and gas, offshore renewables, deep sea minerals, and other non-energy niches. The two-year scheme includes work both on and offshore supported by training sessions with a focus career development and progression.

What will you do in this position?

• Complete graduate objectives
• Attend training courses
• Perform engineering tasks according to the Engineering Procedure and in a safe and accurately manner
• Participate in offshore jobs as part of operation team
• Assist in planning and execution of marine operations
• Follow up design/fabrication of tools/structures
• Assist in vessel mobilisation and offshore operation
• Ensure clients receive sufficient documentation and updates on progress, within the given deadlines
• Liaise with HSEQS to ensure all project/tender specific HSEQS requirements are met and all necessary documentation is completed.

Reasons to enjoy working with us

The best reason to join us is the positive attitude of the people you’ll work alongside and our ambitions for the future of not only the company, but also society and not least you as an individual. But there’s more:

• Competitive Terms
• On-the-job training with hands-on experience
• Continuous mentorship throughout your journey
• Chartership Support (IEng / CEng) with IMarEST
• Assist in the development of optimal technical solutions around available Company assets in response to client scopes, under supervision
• Travel opportunities across the EMEA region
• Flexible working environment
• Perform engineering and develop documentation on time to satisfy client and project requirements, under supervision
• Be part of a globally diverse team

Your background and competence

To master this position, you should ideally have the following background:

• Higher Education Degree/Master/Bachelor (or equivalent) in relevant engineering or science subject
• Degree must be accredited by Engineering Council

Who you are as a person

To thrive in this position, it’s helpful to have a personality in line with several – but not necessarily all - of the following key qualities/behaviours:

• Professional and proactive attitude
• Teamwork
• Time Management
• Technical ability
• Flexible and innovative approach to changes and challenges
• Take initiative and personal responsibility
• Good verbal and written communication in English
• Creative approach with attention to detail

Demonstrable experience specific to the role

• Experience with ROV and subsea operations (not essential)

A brief description of ourselves

DeepOcean is a world-leading, technology-driven provider of ocean services, enabling the energy transition and sustainable use of ocean resources. DeepOcean was established in 1999. With headquarters in Oslo, Norway and main operational centres in Norway, the UK, the USA and Mexico, we support our clients worldwide.

We offer companies within oil and gas, offshore renewables, deep sea minerals, and other non-energy niches a full range of services – from surveys, engineering, project management, and installation to maintenance and recycling.

DeepOcean has joined the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative. We support the 10 United Nations Global Compact Principles on human rights, labour standards, environment, and anti-corruption. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and workplace. We value inclusion, equality and diversity and encourage all qualified candidates to apply. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status or gender identity.