Principal Subsea Systems Engineer

NES Fircroft are currently working with our valued client who are looking for a Principal Subsea Systems Engineer to join their Perth Office on an initial 12 month contract.

Primary Objective

Reporting to the Offshore Project SURF Manager. The Principal Subsea Systems Engineer will be responsible for the technical definition, integration, assurance of the overall subsea system, ensuring that individual subsea equipment packages and interfacing systems function together as a safe, reliable and operable system.

Accountable for the successful completion of system-wide engineering assurance activities including HAZOP, LOPA, SIL and operability reviews, ensuring risks arising from interfaces between contractor scope and existing systems are identified, managed and closed.

Responsible for systems-engineering oversight across subsea wells, trees, manifolds, flowlines, umbilicals, controls, chemical injection and associated host interfaces through DEFINE (FEED) and EXECUTE Stages. 

Primary Responsibilities

• Collaboratively develop and maintain key Asset integrity critical documentation / drawings that define the subsea system, functionality, interfaces, and demonstrate technical assurance, integration and operability including PFDs, PIDs, Subsea schematics, RATS, CAEs and interface battery limit drawings.
• Support Formal Safety Assessment process with the oversight and participation in all contractor key technical reviews (HAZOP, LOPA, SIL etc.). Ensuring the reviews are performed to schedule (and timely issue of supporting information from Contractor, such as P&IDs, control narratives, cause and effects).
• Support and participation in other key technical reviews (Design, constructability and operability reviews, HAZID, risk assessments, etc.).
• Identify system-level design constraints (including brownfield constraints) and ensure individual equipment / package designs remain compatible with the overall system
• Ensure system engineering deliverables meet schedule, quality, assurance and regulatory requirements through disciplined technical review, design review and management of change governance.
• Develop a detailed understanding of the existing subsea system configuration, condition, design limits and available capacity
• Lead resolution of technical issues spanning multiple engineering disciplines
• Drives timely technical decision-making by clearly framing issues, developing and evaluating options, making recommendations, and engaging the appropriate technical authorities and stakeholders to achieve decisions that support safe and efficient project delivery.
• Ensure system engineering requirements are incorporated into installation and commissioning philosophies and procedures.
• Project handover and information management focal point
• Support in the definition, interface and execution of the various flow assurance scopes of work to ensure consistent basis across the wider system.
• Responsible for technical review, and where applicable endorsement / approval, of key system applicable project documentation.
• Support the interface management process, championing system level interface resolution between applicable stakeholders.
• Support in the application of all relevant engineering standards, specifications, codes and regulatory requirements to ensure consistent compliance across the development.
• Support in the identification, evaluation and management of system level technical risks, opportunities and uncertainties, ensuring risks are mitigated where possible and appropriately carried forward with clear ownership into subsequent project phases.
• Ensure safety in design is embedded in the system definition, with process safety hazards systematically identified and managed.
• Manage contractor HAZOP reviews and associated action management (tracking and close-out).
• Actively participate in, and where applicable at system level manage, HSE reviews, HAZID and risk assessment workshops, and contractor HSE engagements

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical, Subsea, Petroleum, Process Engineering or another relevant engineering discipline.
• Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) or equivalent professional registration desirable.

Skills and Experience

• 15+ years’ experience in offshore / subsea oil and gas developments, with a demonstrated progression into system engineering.
• Demonstrated experience in HAZOP processes, including experience in HAZOP preparation, coordination and close-out
• Experience in HAZID and LOPA / SIL processes
• Demonstrated understanding of subsea production system architecture and equipment
• Experience working across multiple subsea engineering disciplines and technical interfaces
• Knowledge and experience of the engineering lifecycle from FEED through detailed design, manufacture, testing, installation and commissioning.
• Demonstrated knowledge of stage-gated project maturation, including decision framing, options evaluation and assurance activities that support the approval of stage gate transition.
• Ability to review complex technical information and understand system-level implications.
• Understanding of engineering assurance, risk management and Management of Change processes
• Demonstrated experience owning the overall system definition and control of an oil and gas development, including system architecture, design basis, performance cases and operating philosophy.
• Working knowledge of overall control and safety systems

Skills and Experience Desirable

• Experience with brownfield subsea developments.
• Operator, EPCI contractor and/or subsea OEM experience.
• Offshore installation or commissioning experience.
• Familiarity with relevant codes and standards.

* Candidates must have AU working rights to be considered*

With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.