The Lead Project Engineer is a staff position within the Offshore Projects Group (OPG), supporting installation engineering activities across the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. This role is responsible for delivering technical leadership and installation engineering support for complex offshore projects, ensuring safe, efficient, and technically robust execution from concept development through offshore operations.
The position is based in Baku (Azerbaijan), with periodic travel across the EMEA region, including offshore assignments as required.
ResponsibilitiesEssential
- Deliver installation engineering for subsea hardware across all project phases, including concept development, evaluation, design, procurement, and offshore execution.
- Prepare and review engineering procedures and specifications in compliance with applicable standards and client requirements
- Responsible for technical interface with the client as required and produce engineering documentation, technical reports, and presentations.
- Ensure compliance with technical specifications from client, rules and legislations (DNV, ABS, LOLER etc). and/or governmental regulations.
- Support offshore execution, including attendance on installation vessels as required.
- Interface with clients, project teams, and third-party stakeholders.
- Supervise and support project engineers as required.
- Support Installation Engineering Manager in recruitment of project engineers.
Non Essential
- Identify required equipment, support vendor selection, and prepare subcontractor work scopes.
- Raise and manage Technical Queries (TQs) and Technical Proposals (TPs)
- Support procurement activities and subcontractor follow-up.
- Follow up and interface with hydrodynamic and structural department for deployment analysis as required
- Assist tendering and study teams with method statements, scheduling input, and cost estimates.
- Collaborate with document control, design analysts, and drafting teams.
- Review product designs and participate in Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT) and System Integration Tests (SIT) as required.
Safety
Ensure that the Safety policies and procedures are understood and adhered to so far as is reasonably practicable in order to ensure a safe working environment. Participate in and present during risk assessments (e.g., HAZID, HAZOP, HIRA)
Other
- Carry out work in accordance with the Company Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality Systems.
- Perform the assigned tasks with due diligence regarding the Integrated Management Systems on the Company.
- Eliminate waste of whatever form, to suggest the use of more environmentally friendly substances and practices and contribute to the continuous improvement of the environment.
Supervisory Responsibilities
- This position has direct supervisory responsibilities.
- The lead project engineer will be responsible for hiring and supervising project engineers in the Baku office.
Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Structural, Mechanical, Civil or Ocean Engineering)
- Extensive relevant experience ( minimum 15 years)
- Experience across full asset lifecycle.
- Deep knowledge of offshore / subsea systems including pipelines, risers, pressure systems, subsea assets, diving operations.
- Technical experience and knowledge of structure and deployment analysis.
- Technical experience and knowledge of lifting operations.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
- Report writing and data interpretation expertise.
- Extensive offshore experience involving installation and diving operations.
- Ability to support offshore visits and site visits.
- Ability to interface with clients, contractors and global teams.
- Ability to influence decisions at project and business level
- Ability to read, analyze, technical procedures, technical specifications from client, rules and legislations (DNV, ABS , LOLER etc). and/or governmental regulations.
- Able to perform strategy development.
- Experience with tendering work.
- Knowledge of Math CAD, 2D AutoCAD.
- Ability to travel internationally for work scopes
- Valid driver’s license
Valid passport
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other Characteristics
- Ensures that important information from management is shared with employees and others as appropriate
- Gives and receives constructive feedback
- Ensures that others involved in a project or effort are kept informed about developments and plans
- Ensures that regular consistent communication takes place within area of responsibility
About Us
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Structural, Mechanical, Civil or Ocean Engineering)
- Minimum 15 years extensive relevant experience
- Experience across full asset lifecycle
- Deep knowledge of offshore/subsea systems including pipelines, risers, pressure systems, subsea assets
- Experience with diving operations and extensive offshore installation experience
- Technical experience in structure and deployment analysis
- Technical experience and knowledge of lifting operations
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability
- Report writing and data interpretation expertise
- Ability to support and attend offshore and site visits
- Ability to interface with clients, contractors and global teams
- Ability to influence decisions at project and business level
- Ability to read and analyze technical procedures, client specifications, and regulations (DNV, ABS, LOLER)
- Experience with tendering work and strategy development
- Knowledge of MathCAD
- Knowledge of 2D AutoCAD
- Ability to travel internationally
- Valid driver's license
- Valid passport
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare offerings are portrayed as comprehensive, including private medical insurance and broad medical, dental, and vision coverage tailored to local markets. In several contexts, coverage is characterized as good to outstanding.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include pension/retirement plans and a U.S. 401(k), which are consistently highlighted as part of a competitive package. These elements are described as contributing meaningful value to overall compensation.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave programs include PTO/vacation, paid holidays, and paid sick leave, with annual leave emphasized globally. Time-off provisions are noted as a steady component of total rewards even when salary opinions differ.
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What We Do
Oceaneering pushes the frontiers of deep water, space and motion entertainment environments to execute with new, leading-edge connections to solve tomorrow’s challenges, today. As the trusted subsea connection specialist, our experience combined with the depth and breadth of our portfolio of technologies allows us to engineer solutions for the most complex subsea challenges. From routine to extreme, our integrated products, services, and innovative solutions safely de-risk operational systems, increase reliability, and enable a lower total cost of ownership. We are connecting what’s needed with what’s next as the world’s largest ROV operator and the leading ROV provider to the oil and gas industry with over 300 systems operating worldwide. With our safety-focused and innovative approach, we responsively and decisively react to subsea challenges while providing solutions swiftly and efficiently.
