Subsea Team Lead

Anasuria Hibiscus UK Limited; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Anasuria Operating Company Limited is hiring a Subsea Team Lead for the Aberdeen-area offshore subsea operations. The role requires leadership of the Subsea Operations Team to preserve asset integrity, ensure safe campaigns, and manage budgets and schedules with contractors.

You will oversee IRM activities for FPSO systems, support safety management systems, and coordinate with onshore and offshore stakeholders to deliver reliable subsea services.

Qualifications

• Honours degree in engineering.
• UK experience in working in an onshore environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Subsea Operations Team to maintain asset integrity and safe operations.
• Oversee subsea system boundary maintenance, routine PMs/PMAs, and vendor work.
• Coordinate IRM of FPSO hull, moorings, risers, pipelines, and subsea infrastructure; deploy diving resources as required.
• Own the Diving and Subsea Safety Management System (DSSMS) and ensure compliance with SEMS and risk controls.
• Act as offshore Client Worksite Representative when required and report performance and risks to management.

Education

Honours degree in engineering

Job description

We're Hiring! Join our team as a Full-Time Staff Subsea Team Lead at Anasuria Operating Company Limited (AOC).

Anasuria Operating Company Limited (AOC) is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Subsea Team Lead to join our team. AOC is a joint operating company established in 2015, focused on exploration, development, and production of oil and gas in the Anasuria Cluster. Our vision is to drive efficiency, maximise value, and operate in a safe and environmentally responsible manner. We strive to be the best small independent operator by achieving top-quartile asset uptime, being the preferred partner for the industry, and attracting talented individuals from across the sector.

At AOC, we live by our core values: Be Safe, Be Empowered, Be Authentic, Be Progressive, and Be Exceptional. These values shape our culture and guide our actions. We foster a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can contribute, and we recruit, reward, and develop our people based on merit, without discrimination.

As the Subsea Team Leadat Anasuria, you play a key role in leading the Subsea Operations Team to maintain subsea asset integrity through competent personnel and contractors.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

• Ensure Duty Holder and Pipeline Operator responsibilities are met.
• Remain accountable for the team and subsea assets: control systems, pipelines, risers, umbilicals and tree-system support (chokes and SCMs).
• Oversee subsea system boundary maintenance, including routine PMs/PMAs and vendor work.
• Oversee repairs from identification and analysis through planning, contracting, sparing and execution.
• Ensure safe, successful subsea campaigns within budget.
• Own the Diving and Subsea Safety Management System (DSSMS).

Health, Safety and Environment

• Support operational risk management and Operational Risk Assessment (ORA) development and closure.
• Ensure compliance with the Safety and Environmental Management System (SEMS).
• Ensure key vendors have health and safety KPIs and monitor regularly.
• Support regulatory inspections, including presentations and interviews.
• Support incident investigations and organisational learning.
• Implement and participate in audits and offshore safety tours.
• Maintain familiarity with applicable legislation, the Safety Case and safety management systems.

Strategic Priorities

• Lead the onshore subsea team and ensure effective delivery and performance.
• Ensure adequate skills coverage and demonstrable competence for safe delivery, maintaining, monitoring and reporting training and competency systems.
• Direct and prioritise onshore team and contractor delivery, allocate resources, delegate responsibilities and monitor performance, budgets and schedules.
• Promote industry Principles of Process Safety Leadership within AOC.
• Implement and communicate AOC's Vision and Strategy to the asset organisation and key stakeholders.
• Act as the principal subsea interface with management, projects and regulatory bodies; report performance, risks, priorities, budgets and resource needs as required.
• Keep abreast of and promote industry best practice and innovative subsea and inspection technologies.

Asset Integrity & Operational Delivery

• Manage subsea matters affecting the FPSO to meet safety requirements and business targets.
• Plan and execute IRM of FPSO hull, moorings, risers, pipelines and subsea infrastructure, deploying ROV, air or saturation diving resources as required.
• Oversee topsides pipeline-envelope inspection and repairs with relevant asset teams.
• Custodian of subsea strategies, IRM plans, procedures and drawings; develop, optimise and maintain them to meet regulatory and corporate requirements and business best practice.
• Custodian of the subsea anomaly database, ensuring accurate risk assessment and mitigation delivery.
• Oversee pipeline and subsea RBA to prioritise inspection, maintenance and integrity management.
• Monitor and report subsea equipment and controls performance, failures and serviceability, including manifolds, moorings, risers and pipelines.
• Advise onshore/offshore teams and support major work planning and execution, including shutdowns.
• Visit offshore regularly to maintain onshore/offshore relationships.
• Act as offshore Client Worksite Representative when required.
• Work with specialists to resolve integrity concerns threatening safe operations and production.
• Contribute to 6-week, 90-day and 6Q integrated asset plans and the asset risk process.

Budgets & Contract Management

• Prepare annual budget forecasts and monitor monthly costs against approved annual and ad hoc budgets.
• Oversee subsea Authorisations for Expenditure (AFEs), keeping expenditure and approvals within delegated authority.
• Manage DSV/ROVSV, diving safety and pipeline technical authority support contracts; oversee the team's engineering, integrity and subsea controls support contracts and performance.

Projects & Management of Change

• Provide technical input to development projects and ITTs.
• Oversee engineers and contractors delivering assigned small subsea projects from planning through execution to operational handover.
• Ensure change control is complete before accepting modifications, engaging the IVB as required to support change approval.

Authority Level

• Reports to:Technical Manager
• Direct Reports: Subsea Operations Team

Working Relationships

• Provide leadership and guidance to the subsea team.
• Build collaborative relationships with AOC colleagues, suppliers and contractors.
• Share information openly to support business goals.

Education & Associations (Essential)

• Honours degree qualifiedin relevant engineering field, or equivalent time in the oil & gas industry.
• UK experience in working in an onshore environment.