Detailed Design Discipline Manager

Ocean Installer; Stavanger; Hybrid; NOK 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible organisation with directLines

Great working environment

Competitive pension and insurance

Flexibility to work from home

Social events – Social Installer

Job summary

Ocean Installer seeks an experienced Discipline Manager to build and lead our Detailed Design capability from the Stavanger base. The role combines technical leadership with hands-on engineering to shape a lean, capable discipline for FEED, tenders, and EPCI projects.

You will drive interfaces between engineering, procurement, fabrication, and offshore installation, ensuring fit-for-purpose deliverables and a smooth transition from FEED to detailed design and execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical, Structural, Marine, Subsea Engineering, or another relevant engineering discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant engineering experience, with significant experience within subsea detailed design and EPCI project execution.
• Demonstrated experience in technical leadership, preferably as a Lead Engineer, Discipline Lead, Discipline Manager, or Subject Matter Expert.
• Experience from an EPCI contractor, engineering/design house, subsea contractor, or similar environment.
• Strong understanding of the interfaces between engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, and offshore installation.

Responsibilities

• Establishing and developing Ocean Installer's Detailed Design discipline and ways of working.
• Providing technical leadership and hands-on engineering support to FEED studies, tenders, and EPCI projects.
• Defining fit-for-purpose detailed design scopes and deliverables based on requirements.
• Acting as the detailed design focal point within EPCI project teams and ensuring effective interfaces with other engineering disciplines.
• Supporting the transition from FEED into detailed design, procurement, and execution.
• Supporting tender teams in defining and assessing detailed design scope, execution strategy, and requirements.
• Developing scopes of work for external engineering providers and following up design houses and specialist subcontractors.
• Reviewing and quality-assuring third-party engineering deliverables and ensuring technical, contractual, and commercial alignment.
• Working closely with clients, suppliers, and internal engineering disciplines.
• Maintaining relevant technical competence and awareness of developments within detailed design.

Skills

Subsea detailed design

Offshore construction

EPCI project execution

Field layout

Pipeline routing

Stability analysis

Riser and spool design

Dynamic riser analysis

Interfaces (engineering/procurement/f­

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Mechanical/Structural/Marine/Subsea Engineering

Job description

Ocean Installer is looking for an experienced Discipline Manager to develop our detailed design capability.

This is a new role, created to support the increasing need for detailed design competence across FEED studies, tenders, and EPCI projects. The role will combine technical leadership and hands‑on engineering with responsibility for building a small, focused discipline tailored to the needs of our projects.

Detailed Design is an important link between early‑phase engineering and execution, supporting constructability, procurement, and efficient transition from FEED into project delivery.

Why this role?

This is an opportunity to shape a new engineering capability within Ocean Installer rather than simply step into an existing position. You will have influence across the project lifecycle, from FEED through tendering, detailed design, procurement, and offshore execution.

The ambition is a small, capable discipline that combines design expertise with Ocean Installer's practical installation and execution experience, while using specialist external resources where appropriate.

What we can offer you

As Detailed Design Discipline Manager, you will be the Subject Matter Expert for Detailed Design within Ocean Installer and the focal point for detailed design activities across the company.

You will be responsible for:

• Establishing and developing Ocean Installer's Detailed Design discipline and ways of working.
• Providing technical leadership and hands‑on engineering support to FEED studies, tenders, and EPCI projects.
• Defining fit‑for‑purpose detailed design scopes and deliverables based on requirements.
• Acting as the detailed design focal point within EPCI project teams and ensuring effective interfaces with other engineering disciplines.
• Supporting the transition from FEED into detailed design, procurement, and execution.
• Supporting tender teams in defining and assessing detailed design scope, execution strategy, and requirements.
• Developing scopes of work for external engineering providers and following up design houses and specialist subcontractors.
• Reviewing and quality‑assuring third‑party engineering deliverables and ensuring technical, contractual, and commercial alignment.
• Working closely with clients, suppliers, and internal engineering disciplines.
• Maintaining relevant technical competence and awareness of developments within detailed design.

Who we`re looking for

We are looking for someone with broad subsea detailed design experience combined with a strong understanding of offshore construction and project execution. This experience may come from an EPCI contractor, design house, engineering consultancy, or a similar environment.

• Field layout and pipeline routing
• On-bottom stability and freespan analysis
• Crossing and spool design
• Tie‑in analysis

Additional technical experience may include:

• Flexible pipe and riser design
• Dynamic riser analysis
• Structural and pipeline interfaces
• Interfaces towards geotechnical, survey, flow assurance, materials, pre‑commissioning, SPS and diverless connection system.

Just as importantly, you should understand how design decisions translate into fabrication, construction and offshore installation. We are looking for someone who can combine sound engineering principles with practical execution experience and develop solutions suited to an installation contractor and EPCI environment.

Qualifications and experience:

This is not a role where you will take over an established discipline. You will help build it.

The discipline is intended to remain lean, supplemented by internal specialists and external design resources when required.

You should therefore be comfortable working across organizational boundaries, challenging established ways of working and demonstrating the value that Detailed Design can bring to projects. Strong collaboration and communication skills are essential, together with the credibility to work effectively with project teams, clients, discipline leads and external engineering providers.

We are looking for someone who is pragmatic, adaptable, and commercially aware, and who takes ownership rather than waiting for a fully defined framework. If you recognize yourself in several og the qualifications below, we would love to hear from you:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical, Structural, Marine, Subsea Engineering, or another relevant engineering discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant engineering experience, with significant experience within subsea detailed design and EPCI project execution.
• Demonstrated experience in technical leadership, preferably as a Lead Engineer, Discipline Lead, Discipline Manager, or Subject Matter Expert.
• Experience from an EPCI contractor, engineering/design house, subsea contractor, or similar environment.
• Strong understanding of the interfaces between engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, and offshore installation.

Reason for joining us

If you’ve come this far you might be just what we’re looking for. We know that we all have individual preferences when talking about company perks, and we would love to tell more about all the perks you would have working for us. For now, we have settled with a small tease which we hope that you might appreciate:

• A flexible organisation characterised by direct lines of communication and swift decision‑making processes,our voice is always heard in Ocean Installer
• Great working environmentin a dynamic and international company
• Competitive pension and insurance schemes
• Flexibility to work from home
• Regular social events organised by our social club – Social Installer - with free access to in‑house sports hall, gym and squash courts

Ocean Installer is a global marine construction company delivering large complex projects in challenging environments. The company is based in Stavanger and has offices in Oslo, Aberdeen, Dubai and Rio De Janeiro. With a business model based on partnerships, we have a flexible asset strategy and customer mindset. This creates agility. Ocean Installer is owned by Moreld, a leading industrial multi‑disciplinary engineering group offering services across offshore energy and marine industries.

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