Senior Installation Analysis Engineer

Role overview

The Senior Installation Analysis Engineer will strengthen the installation analysis function by applying established engineering practices and sound judgment to complex technical challenges. This role is expected to serve as a knowledgeable reference point for less experienced team members, contribute practical and conceptual know-how, and help improve the quality of installation-related products and services. The position influences customer, project, operational, and service activities while ensuring all work stays aligned with relevant procedures, policies, and standards.

Key responsibilities

• Carry out conceptual, FEED, and detailed engineering in line with the design basis, project requirements, codes, and standards.
• Lead the engineering team when appointed as Project Coordinator.
• Apply technical knowledge to both routine and unusual engineering situations.
• Develop accurate design calculations, analysis outputs, reports, and procedures.
• Plan and manage personal work to meet deadlines and budget targets.
• Explain technical matters clearly and build understanding across teams.
• Provide offshore engineering support on installation vessels when needed.
• Understand the full project scope, schedule, specifications, and inter-discipline requirements, and raise issues early with corrective actions.
• Identify scope changes quickly and issue change notices, supporting documentation, estimates, and Variation Order support as needed.
• Work with all disciplines to produce clash-free designs.
• Coordinate with other departments to obtain the inputs needed for discipline design and drawings.
• Work closely with Planning, Fabrication, Marine, Project Management, and other engineering teams.
• Record substantive communications and share them with the Discipline Lead Engineer.
• Support bid preparation through technical reviews, execution statements, and workhour estimates.
• Raise technical queries to close information gaps and align work with company procedures, specifications, standards, and operational needs.
• Develop discipline design basis documents, philosophies, and technical specifications where required.
• Help finalize deliverables lists and deliverables while maintaining specification compliance and functional integrity.
• Attend project reviews, vendor meetings, engineering meetings, and offshore site surveys as needed.
• Review and guide designers working on construction and installation support engineering outputs.
• Prepare and review engineering design reports.
• Provide design inputs to other disciplines so their deliverables can progress.
• Support procurement activities by preparing and reviewing requisitions, technical bid evaluations, queries, bid tabulations, recommendations, purchase requisitions, and vendor document follow-up.
• Update weight reports using vendor information when available.
• Review engineering work completed by others within the discipline.
• Conduct design verification through single-discipline and inter-discipline checks.
• Support fabrication queries, including defect assessment and rectification needs.
• Keep the Lead Engineer informed of technical, budget, and manpower matters.
• Contribute to actual, planning, and forecast progress reporting, including productivity input.
• Take part in internal, customer, and third-party audits of engineering deliverables and vendor documents.
• Help prepare responses for customer and third-party reviews, approvals, and queries.
• Capture lessons learned in the company’s lessons learned system.
• Act as a technical resource for colleagues with less experience.
• Coach junior engineers on internal procedures, standards, worksheets, calculations, software, requisitions, bid evaluations, and technical queries.
• Stay mindful of the cost implications of personal work and discipline activities.
• For pipeline installation work, review or execute engineering for transport and installation of subsea pipelines, risers, spools, PLETS, manifolds, and cables.
• For structural installation work, review or execute engineering related to loadout, transport, and installation of offshore structures, including barge upgrades and modifications.
• For naval installation work, review or execute naval architecture engineering for all marine-operation aspects of loadout, transportation, and installation.
• Where preferred skills are useful, contribute to erection sequencing for jackets, topsides, and other structures; loadout procedures; construction lift analyses; weighing procedures; fabrication yard item design/detailing; crane and rigging arrangements; and trailer arrangements, drawings, and procedures.

Reporting and coordination

This role reports to the Discipline Lead Engineer and works closely with engineering disciplines, Fabrication, Safety, Document Control, Procurement, subcontractors, Project Management, vendors, and customers. The position also supervises engineers.

Qualifications and experience

• A bachelor’s degree in Naval Architecture, Civil, Structural, or Mechanical Engineering is required; a master’s degree is preferred.
• 8 to 15 years of oil and gas experience with a major contractor or consultant, primarily in construction and installation design.
• Strong understanding of design techniques, analysis methods, and the application of industry codes, standards, and guidelines for onshore and offshore construction.
• Professional Engineer registration or membership in a professional engineering society is preferred.

About the company

The organization works across the energy value chain, delivering offshore and onshore infrastructure solutions, including subsea systems, platforms, and offshore wind projects. With more than a century of history, it operates in 54 countries and employs over 30,000 people, supporting the global energy transition.

Additional information

Preferred but not mandatory areas of expertise include erection planning, loadout support, lift analysis, weighing, fabrication yard details, crane and rigging setups, and trailer operations. The role may involve offshore support and interaction with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.