Offshore Methods Engineer

Company Description

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”. Saipem supports 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 and employs about 30,000 people from over 130 nationalities.

As an Offshore Methods Engineer, you will report to the Installation Offshore Methods Lead and join the Engineering function within the Asset Based Business Line. You will support Saipem’s ongoing EPCI projects in the Americas by contributing to installation engineering activities and coordinating interfaces with installation, fabrication, and subcontract procurement teams. Experience in installation engineering of flexible and umbilical products is highly valued.

• Participate in project progress meetings, engineering coordination meetings, interface meetings with client, contractors and subcontractors, technical review meetings, HSE meetings, and risk assessment.
• Issue, update and follow up procedures and documents related to the scope.
• Develop installation engineering studies and provide input for installation activities presentations.
• Follow up drafting activities related to the scope.
• Initiate and specify equipment, installation aids and material requirements, and provide or review associated documentation.
• Review contract, qualifications, clarifications and specifications for Saipem and interfaces.
• Design required lift rigging.
• Prepare project operation reports.
• Provide technical support for presentations related to the scope.
• Report regularly to the Lead (progress, deviation, issues and concerns).
• Update weekly the Installation Engineering Master Document Register.
• Manage drafting priorities to comply with MDR milestones.
• Issue time estimates, detailed operation schedules, and transportation schedules for the scope.
• Issue, update and follow up the system description table for the scope.
• Ensure equipment, installation aids and material requirements are transmitted through the turnaround file.
• Support spread & equipment engineering (drawings, SOP, layout).
• Review subcontractor technical documentation and provide input as required.
• Organize, gather and check data from subcontractors.
• Review manufacturer testing procedures and reports (FAT, SIT/OT), and provide input to SIT/OT procedures.
• Approve SIT/OT reports and integrate fabrication data book (QC report, certificates) into the installation aids data book.
• Manage and gather data for external interfaces.
• Review subcontractor/supplier testing procedures and reports, and provide input to SIT/OT procedures.
• Update and revise installation engineering drawings following supplier, manufacturer, and subcontractor documentations.
• Support technical bid evaluations, rigging and installation aids specifications.
• Onshore preparation: support check‑list completion, witness SIT/OT operations, assist load‑out final approval, act as point of contact for engineering and installation change support, participate in daily meetings and technical meetings, and provide engineering assistance between the construction yard and project engineering team.
• Ensure safety rules dedicated to the function are respected.
• Offshore operation: ensure availability of necessary engineering…