Subsea Pre-commissioning Engineer

Aretè & Cocchi Technology; Doha; On-site; QAR 360,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

Saipem Qatar seeks a Pre-commissioning Engineer to join the Subsea Pre-commissioning Engineering Department. You will respond to the Pre-commissioning Manager and support QA/QC, HSE, and project schedules for offshore pipelines and related systems.

Responsibilities include maintaining technical integrity, drawing up schedules, identifying issues, approving designs, coordinating with offshore teams, and ensuring completion within budget and deadlines.

Qualifications

• Diploma or Degree in Mechanical, Offshore, or Pipeline Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 8 years of offshore subsea pipeline pre-commissioning experience with 3+ years in a supervisory role.
• Strong communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for technical integrity and compliance with estimated costs and deadlines across engineering phases.
• Perform engineering tasks to guarantee quality of methods requirements.
• Report to Offshore Method Lead and draw up general engineering schedules as per contract.
• Identify technical problems and make decisions within contractual requirements.
• Define tasks and subtasks, or supervise their drafting as needed.
• Define materials/services to be purchased within budget with direct responsibility.
• Approve all technical designs for purchase/construction for client delivery.
• Participate in meetings and audits with the Client on technical designs.
• Cost/scheduling decisions must be approved by the Project Engineer and communicated to management.
• Notify responsible parties and Project Manager of issues in other engineering areas.
• Perform verifications and calculations for methodology and oversee drafting of the methodology.
• Summarise methodology activities in a manual and transfer useful data from analyses.
• Ensure operation teams receive reports, manuals, and drawings.
• Coordinate offshore follow-up activities at construction sites.
• Adjust depth of activities for project or bid support.
• Participate in offshore activities as field engineer when required.
• Verify equipment and materials.

Skills

EPC Experience

Company Processes and Procedures

Project Management Tools & Methodol og

DNV-ST-F101/API standards

Pre-commissioning equipment knowledge

Team management (30+ personnel)

QE LNG project familiarity

English proficiency

Education

Diploma or Degree in Mechanical Offshore or Pipeline Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Office Suite

Advanced Excel

Job description

Saipem is hiring! Saipem is a global leader in the engineering and construction of major projects for the energy and infrastructure sectors, both offshore and onshore. Saipem is "One Company" organized into business lines: Asset Based Services, Drilling, Energy Carriers, Offshore Wind, Sustainable Infrastructures, Robotics & Industrialized Solutions. Always oriented towards technological innovation, the company’s purpose is "Engineering for a sustainable future". As such Saipem is committed to supporting its clients on the energy transition pathway towards Net Zero, with increasingly digital means, technologies and processes geared for environmental sustainability. Listed on the Milan Stock Exchange, it is present in more than 50 countries around the world and employs about 30,000 people of over 130 nationalities.

Purpose of the position:

As Pre-commissioning Engineer, you will respond to the Pre-commissioning Manager and be part of Saipem Qatar within Subsea Pre-commissioning Engineering Department.

How can you support us? Here below your responsibilities:

Mission.

• Be responsible for technical integrity and compliance with estimated costs and deadlines throughout the various engineering phases of the project
• Perform directly engineering tasks to guarantee the quality of the product for methods requirements

Tasks.

The Engineer executes the activities within his area of responsibility, ensuring the compliance with the QA/QC and HSE requirements

Tasks include:

• The Engineer executes the activities within own area of responsibility, ensuring the compliance with the QA/QC and HSE requirements
• Report to Offshore Method Lead
• Draw up a general engineering schedule as stipulated by the contract to be revised by the Project
• Identify technical problems and make the necessary technical decisions within the limitations imposed by contractual requirements
• Draw up definitions and detailed specifications of tasks and sub-tasks or supervise their drafting by other resources if requested
• Define the materials or services to be purchased for engineering tasks within the allocated resource budget, in conjunction with own direct responsible
• Approve all the technical design necessary for the purchase and/or construction of products to be supplied to the Client
• Participate to meetings to examine and, if necessary, audit the technical design, and take part in technical examinations with the Client.
• Cost and scheduling decisions which influence contractual obligations or other functions must be approved by the Project Engineer (if any) and communicated to the Engineering Manager and Project Manager
• Notify own direct responsible and the Project Manager of any problems occurring with any other engineering areas
• Perform all the engineering verifications and calculations necessary for the methodology to be implemented
• Supervise and verify the drafting describing the methodology to be implemented
• Summarise and clarify in a manual all methodology activities, clearly identifying the show stoppers (if any). Transfer inside the manual all useful data derived by analyses performed by others
• Ensure that the operation people on board of the vessel receive all useful data in form of reports, manuals, drawings
• Follow up activities offshore or in any construction place deemed necessary by the project
• All the above activities could be performed with different level of deepness for Project or Bid assistance performance
• Participation to the offshore activities with the role of field engineer, when requested both in the yards and offshore during the vessel operation campaign
• Be responsible to verify equipment and materials

What are we looking for?

• Education: Diploma or Degree in Mechanical, Offshore, or Pipeline Engineering (or equivalent).
• Background: Minimum 8 years of offshore subsea pipeline pre-commissioning experience, with at least 3 years in a supervisory role.
• Languages: Strong communication skills in English.

Technical Skills / Knowledge with:

• EPC Experience
• Company Processes and Procedures
• Project Management Tools & Methodologies
• In-depth knowledge of DNV-ST-F101, API standards, and other relevant international codes.
• Strong technical understanding of pre-commissioning equipment (suction pumps, flooding pumps, chemical injection units, compressors, air dryers).
• Proven ability to manage large teams (30+ personnel) during pre-commissioning phases.
• Familiarity with QE LNG project specifications and offshore operating practices highly preferred.

IT Skills:

• Office package (including Microsoft Project)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills

What can we offer to you:

• Permanent Contract - Project-based position
• Corporate Benefits: We offer a comprehensive benefits package
• Working Hours: 45 hours weekly (9 hours x 5 days)
• Our One Saipem Way soft skills model leverages on skills development, career growth, opportunities to innovate through complex challenges by promoting communication and collaboration to achieve common goals.

Additional Information

We support your development! Do you feel you might not fit this role perfectly? If you think you can contribute to our business development in the future, don’t hesitate to apply anyway through our spontaneous application form !

We embrace diversity! At Saipem, we believe that innovation thrives through diversity. Our culture is built on mutual respect, collaboration, inclusion and the belief that our differences drive our progress.

Safety and Sustainability matter to us! Operating in difficult and at times extreme situations, the focus is always on the health and safety of people and the preservation of the natural ecosystem.

One vision, many paths, limitless possibilities.