Principal Surveyor Engineer

TechnipFMC plc; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Section Lead in the Subsea Installation department, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of energy through innovative survey and positioning techniques. With over 10 years of experience in subsea construction, you will lead a talented team, ensuring effective project execution while fostering a culture of collaboration and safety. Your expertise in geophysics and topography will drive technical excellence, and your communication skills will enhance client relations. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking projects in a diverse and inclusive environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in survey and positioning activities for subsea construction.
• Expertise in installation and calibration of LBL array and USBL.

Responsibilities

• Ensure workload of the survey team is maintained throughout projects.
• Define technical specifications for pre-engineering surveys.

Skills

Survey and Positioning

Geophysics

Topography

Communication Skills

Team Spirit

Education

Master Engineering Diploma

Tools

USBL

LBL Array

Lidar

Photogrammetry

Job description

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TechnipFMC is committed to driving real change in the energy industry. Our ambition is to build a sustainable future through relentless innovation and global collaboration – and we want you to be part of it. You’ll be joining a culture that values curiosity, expertise, and ideas as well as diversity, inclusion, and authenticity. Bring your unique energy to our team of more than 20,000 people worldwide, and discover a rewarding, fulfilling, and varied career that you can take in anywhere you want to go.

Job Purpose

Within the Subsea Installation department, you will report to the Installation and Construction Manager with the following overview:

Job Description

As a Section Lead you will :

• Ensure the workload of the survey team is maintained and monitored throughout the years and project.
• Establish manning plan with the I&C manager to anticipate workload throughout the years.
• Assess the correct manning and expertise of the department in view of the workload.
• Act as technical authority and direct point of contact for queries related to Survey scope within the I&C department.
• Liaise closely with the Global Survey Discipline Lead in order to follow strategy established at Group level and share regional workload.

You will support the projects, tenders & studies in order to:

• Define the technical specifications associated to the pre-engineering survey (AUV survey / bathymetric and geophysics survey) in accordance with the contract.
• Propose and support cost-effective solutions / technologies.
• Define the technical specifications associated to the marine operations (positioning and surface navigation, subsea acoustic and inertial positioning, support the installation works, metrologies, dimensional control) in accordance with the contract.
• Analyze and assess technical offers of subcontractor when applicable.
• Issue procedures relative to positioning of structures, pipelines and umbilicals in relation with the subcontractors, the structure design and installation team.
• Report to the project/package manager in terms of cost and timing objectives.
• Be involved in the offshore operations (mobilization and survey operation follow up) as required.

Additional Description

As technical referent within the survey and positioning department of your region you will also have to :

• Ensure own state of the art competencies in all sector (USV, equipment, metrology, etc) following the Global discipline philosophy.
• Contribute to the definition of the discipline strategy by communicating to the Group via seminars and working sessions with peers such as Identifying areas of development.
• Provide technical-technological support and risk analysis as required by management within projects and manufacturing, fabrication & installation operations.
• Provide technological and engineering solutions in innovative environments and conditions.
• Efficiently contribute to the client relations (presentations, meetings, interfaces…).
• Ensure excellent HSE & engineering performance through application of Subsea engineering rules, processes & standards to design engineering activities within project &/or operations.

Support the knowledge development:

• Provides guidance and training at local-regional level.
• Proposes engineering processes & tools improvements, optimization and possible innovation in relation with the Global discipline philosophy.

Coordinate design activities (including sub-contractors' activities) with responsibility for:

• Design basis
• Engineering schedules & budgets.

You are meant for this job if:

University Master Engineering Diploma specialized in Geophysics or Topography.

You will justify 10+ years minimum experience in survey and positioning activities including subsea construction work projects and especially in: installation and calibration of LBL array, use of USBL, metrology (acoustic, inertial, Lidar, photogrammetry…), pre-lay and pre-engineering survey, as-built survey (OOS). Additionally, great communication skills and team spirit are strongly required for this role.

Being a global leader in the energy industry requires an inclusive and diverse environment. TechnipFMC promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion by ensuring equal opportunities to all ages, races, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, gender expressions, disabilities, or all other pluralities. We celebrate who you are and what you bring. Every voice matters and we encourage you to add to our culture.

TechnipFMC respects the rights and dignity of those it works with and promotes adherence to internationally recognized human rights principles for those in its value chain.

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