Project Engineering Lead - Controls and Automation

Location: 

Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BR, 21535-900

Employment type:  Employee
Place of work:  Office
Offshore/Onshore:  Onshore

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 equal opportunities, inclusion, and authenticity. Bring your unique energy to our team of more than 21,000 people worldwide, and discover a rewarding, fulfilling, and varied career that you can take in anywhere you want to go.

Job Purpose

Developing and implementing improvements in projects and products, guiding support activities in execution and in the field, with a view to meeting the needs of internal and external customers in the area of Controls and Automation to which he/she belongs.

Job Description

  • Responsible for leading Control and Automation Engineering in projects, being the single point for the scope, both internally and with the Customer.
  • Ensure functional requirements, quality, ‘design for safety’ and engineering delivery time are according to expectations.
  • Review and approve projects electrical, optical, hydraulic schematics, as well as related subsea distribution systems.
  • Generate, review, or approve Control System documentation within project, as specifications, schematics, test, and qualification procedures, among others.
  • Define project architecture solution to effectively comply with customer’s requirements.
  • Lead sub-system Design Review, granting sub-system design freeze.
  • Participation in Design Review meetings, ensuring that the Client's requirements, quality, and good practices are met.
  • Creation and management of project activities and sub-activities, making sure execution complies with man-hours and technical solution budgeted.
  • Ensure the correct interfaces of control system equipment within project.
  • Grant the smooth stream among engineering, planning, procurement, project management, industrial engineering, and quality groups.   

Location: Pavuna, RJ

Please submit your CV in English.

This opportunity is also open for persons with disabilities and INSS-rehabilitated individuals

You are meant for this job if:

  • Degree in Electrical Engineering, Control and Automation or others
  • CREA
  • Good knowledge and  experience on subsea control system engineering.
  • Knowledge of overall subsea production systems, specially control system.
  • Knowledge of International standards related to subsea control systems (API7F, API6A, etc.)
  • Knowledge of risk matrix and risk assessment capabilities.
  • Advanced English.
  • Intermediate Office package
It would be a plus if you have:
  • A postgraduate degree in Oil & Gas Engineering, Subsea Production Systems, Control and Automation, or a related field.
  • Experience in the oil and gas sector, with exposure to different control system scopes within subsea projects, such as control and automation cabins, HPUs, electrical and hydraulic distribution systems, subsea controllers, etc.

Skills

English
Communication
Teamwork

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

Learn more about TechnipFMC and find other open positions by visiting our Career Page.

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Date posted:  Nov 9, 2026
Requisition number:  21194