Umbilical Engineer

Job Purpose

The PMA Post-Award Engineering team contains multi-discipline teams responsible for the delivery of Umbilical products to our customers. The technical disciplines within the department are responsible for the umbilical product design and verification and the associated hardware design and verification.

For assigned projects, engineers are responsible for analysing the life cycle performance of all umbilical products within assigned project scopes to relevant internal, international and client driven standards. This includes working with more senior engineers to identify additional risks and engineering assessments required outside of standard practices to ensure the product is fit for purpose. Additional support shall also be given to other non-assigned projects within the PMA. The engineer will work closely with other disciplines such as the Structural, Drawing Office, Project Management Team, R&D, Process and others.

Job Description

• Specification review, assessment against internal standards and creation of umbilical design basis.
• Analyse the life cycle performance of umbilical products to relevant internal, international and client driven standards and rules through creation of the calculation packages specific to the umbilical type / design including verification level responsibility
• Assigned to a specific project to offer technical support to design reviews, internal and external clarification meetings and risk reviews both on project and during manufacturing phase with the guidance of the Senior and Lead Engineer
• Ensuring work is completed according to agreed guidelines, design rules and procedures in a timely and efficient manner
• Contributing to departmental goals identified by Lead Engineers and Departmental Manager
• Identification of technical risk and escalation through more senior engineers where applicable
• Highlighting required updates of design rules to discipline Technical Authority and ensuring deviation from standard design rules and procedure are carried out in accordance with company change control procedures
• Ensure that department and company QHS&E objectives and targets are met
• Supporting with improvement activities and contributing to the departments Lean initiatives
   

You are meant for this job if:

Essential Skills/Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent in an Engineering discipline – preferably Mechanical Engineering, Subsea Engineering
• Proficient in Microsoft office tool such as word, excel and PowerPoint

Desirable Skills/

• Experience in umbilical engineering and the wider offshore / subsea industry is beneficial
• Experience with engineering tools such as MathCAD (or equivalent) and Orcaflex
• Experience with design tools such as AutoCAD and Inventor is not required but beneficial
• Experience with Finite Element Analysis tools such as Ansys and Abaqus
• Experience in developing lean best practices
• Experience delivering against challenging schedules in a project management environment

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