Project Engineer, Risers

Claxton Engineering Services; Great Yarmouth; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Claxton Engineering Services seeks a Project Engineer to join our team at our Great Yarmouth facility. You will manage scope, cost, time, risk, resources, procurements, quality and communications under our policies and client contracts.

Regular client liaison will ensure stakeholder satisfaction and milestones are met. Requirements include a minimum HNC/HND in Engineering and proven project management experience in upstream oil & gas, with offshore exposure.

Qualifications

• Minimum HNC/HND in Engineering or equivalent.
• Experience in project management and adherence to quality safety standards (ISO 9001).
• Oil & gas industry experience relevant to project management roles.
• Full UK driving licence and offshore survival/medical certification.
• Willingness to travel overseas occasionally.

Responsibilities

• Administer projects in accordance with the company’s Quality Management System and contractual obligations.
• Maximise customer satisfaction and profitability while maintaining health, safety and environmental standards.
• Interface with clients, certifying authorities, contractors and staff to manage scope and milestones.
• Prepare project plans, schedules and documentation packs for offshore/onshore work.
• Identify risks, manage changes, and prepare variation orders as needed.
• Attend offshore meetings and ensure project delivery meets requirements.

Skills

Project management

Quality management

Health & safety

ISO 9001

Microsoft Office

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Team player

Self-motivated

Attention to detail

Education

HNC/HND in Engineering

Tools

HP drilling riser products

Job description

Claxton combines decades of industry experience, proprietary technology, and exceptional service quality to cut through offshore installation and decommissioning complexity. Globally, we partner with operators and key contractors in conventional energy, decommissioning, and offshore wind, delivering certainty when it matters. Our expert teams anticipate challenges, deliver innovative high-performance solutions, and provide responsive, transparent support at every stage - ensuring seamless project execution and enduring value, throughout the asset lifecycle and across the energy transition.

We are sourcing a Project Engineer on a full time, permanent basis. Based at our facility in Great Yarmouth, reporting to the Senior Project Engineer, the Riser Project Engineer will undertake a variety of projects, managing scope, cost, time, risk, resources, procurements, quality and communications in accordance with company policies, processes and procedures, whilst adhering to client contractual obligations. Regular client liaison will take place, manage expectations, and ensure appropriate stakeholder satisfaction is apparent via pro-active management of project scope ensuring all milestones are met.

Duties & Main Responsibilities

• Ensuring all assigned projects are administered in accordance with company's Quality Management System and to agreed contractual obligations.
• Maximising both customer satisfaction and company profitability without compromise to health, safety, and the environment by effectively managing projects from their initiation, the planning and execution phases, through to closure, whilst ensuring monitoring and control is exercised.
• Implementing projects according to contract terms, project goals, and objectives, in a pro-active manner, including regular interface with all stakeholders such as clients, certifying authorities, contractors/suppliers and staff/personnel, as necessary.
• Ensuring project definition is apparent, clarifying scope, estimates, and assumptions with sales team during project handovers.
• Ensuring all appropriate projects are kicked off, their meetings are effective, congruent with the project scope and set the tone for success.
• Attendance to client meetings regarding appropriate project matters as and when required.
• Preparation of project plans in a timely manner.
• Creating and updating project schedules, ensuring critical path activities are understood and communicated.
• Identifying appropriate project risk and implementing risk response planning whilst upwardly referring issues. Proactively managing project change including preparation of variation orders or concession requests for ongoing, active projects.
• Ensuring project procurements are considered in terms of cost, time, and quality.
• Understanding project commercial drivers and costs, controlling activities to limit adverse impact upon project finances.
• Preparation of documentation packs for workshop activities to enable efficient product realisation and mobilisation within time demands of the project, ensuring appropriate reviews take place with necessary personnel.
• Preparation of documentation packs for worksite execution (On/Offshore) ensuring appropriate reviews take place with necessary personnel including pre- and post-briefings.
• Ensuring the Design Engineering department is appraised of the project scope such that all engineering activities and calculations are carried out to verify the suitability of equipment and procedures.
• Liaison with Product Leaders to ensure technical matters pertaining to the product line and their application are understood and actioned, as necessary.
• Where contractually obliged, attendance offshore to assure project execution and fulfilment.
• Remain contactable during critical project/offshore start up activities.
• Collating project metrics and report building during project execution for appropriate projects.
• Provision of project reports and weekly time sheets, end of project, lessons learned, and technical reports are submitted on time, where appropriate.
• All lessons learned are captured throughout the course of a project (real time) and fed back to appropriate stakeholders in timely manner.
• Appropriate projects are washed-up and rolled out to relevant staff.
• Liaison with the sales team to identify and respond to project sales opportunities, assisting where required with preparation of bids and quotations for potential projects.
• Fulfilling rostered On-Call (out of hours) duty.
• Any other relevant work/projects (reasonable requests) as may be assigned by the Management team from time to time.

Required

• Minimum HNC/HND in Engineering, or 5 years' experience in an Engineering environment in upstream oil & gas.
• Computer literate in Microsoft Office 365 and other Microsoft software.
• Application of HP drilling riser products & services in the upstream oil & gas sector.
• Experience of project management, quality management systems, health and safety, safe systems of work and legal requirements.
• Demonstrable experience in project management whilst adhering to ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems.
• Oil & gas industry experience commensurate with the job requirements.
• Experience in the production of programs of work and project management/execution plans and reports.
• Offshore experience of drilling rigs, platforms in operation Wells' construction & control equipment.
• Organisational with keen attention to detail.
• The ability to communicate clearly and concisely with diverse audiences.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Self-starter and completer-finisher.
• Self-motivated with a proactive and positive approach to business in general.
• Team player, collaborative and open to feedback.
• Full UK driving licence.
• Current Offshore Survival and Medical Certification.
• Willing to travel overseas occasionally.