Lead Offshore Structural Engineer

About the Role
The Lead Offshore Structural Engineer will play a crucial role in delivering offshore structural engineering solutions for fixed offshore assets across various project phases including Concept Select, FEED, Detailed Engineering, EPC, and brownfield modifications. This position requires collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe, compliant, and constructible engineering outcomes. The successful candidate will lead the discipline in structural assessment, modification, and life-extension while engaging in site surveys and data collection for effective project execution.

Key Consideration
Preference will be given to candidates holding valid OPITO-approved T-BOSIET/BOSIET and H₂S certifications with a minimum validity of six months. The selected candidate will be required to travel offshore as needed to conduct site surveys, support structural assessments and reassessments, verify existing offshore facilities, review as-built conditions, and obtain project-specific engineering data necessary for brownfield modifications, strengthening, life-extension, and execution support.

Job Purpose

• Lead offshore structural engineering delivery for fixed offshore assets across Concept Select, FEED, Detailed Engineering, EPC, and brownfield modification phases.
• Act as discipline focal point for structural assessment, reassessment, modification, strengthening, life-extension, checking, approval, and technical assurance.
• Ensure safe, compliant, and constructible engineering solutions through effective discipline planning, multidisciplinary coordination, and workshare management.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare and manage discipline execution plans, structural design basis, philosophies, deliverable registers, checking/approval matrices, and engineering work-hour estimates.
• Lead offshore structural engineering deliverables for fixed platforms, jackets, topsides, bridges, flare structures, supports, and brownfield modifications.
• Define analysis approach, review assumptions, verify results, and approve structural calculations, reports, specifications, drawings, and technical deliverables.
• Develop engineering solutions for brownfield anomalies, corrosion, damage, previous modifications, strengthening, repair, replacement, and remaining-life issues.
• Plan and support offshore/site visits for data collection, field verification, condition assessment, as-built verification, and structural survey reporting.
• Coordinate metocean, geotechnical, weight-control, survey, inspection, fabrication, installation, constructability, operations, and multidisciplinary inputs.
• Lead interdisciplinary, model, constructability, and safety reviews with clients, IVB, operations, fabrication, installation, and third-party stakeholders.
• Manage discipline progress, schedule, budget, manpower forecast, estimate-to-complete, workshare execution, subcontracted engineering, quality requirements, and change control.

Experience

• Minimum of 18 years of oil and gas structural engineering experience, including 10 years in fixed offshore structural engineering and 5 years in a lead role.
• Proven experience across FEED, Detailed Engineering, EPC, PMC, construction support, offshore installation support, and brownfield modification phases.
• Hands-on experience with fixed offshore assets, structural integrity, reassessment, aging facilities, anomaly mitigation, site survey, and as-built verification.
• Offshore experience with a comparable major operator in brownfield projects is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or Structural Engineering.
• Master’s degree in Structural Engineering, Offshore Engineering, or a related discipline will be considered an advantage.

Technical Skills

• Expert knowledge of fixed offshore structural systems, brownfield interfaces, and offshore structural integrity principles.
• Advanced proficiency in SACS for fixed offshore structural modelling, analysis, assessment, reassessment, checking, and technical assurance.
• Strong understanding of offshore structural analysis types including in-place, pre-service, transportation, load-out, lifting, fatigue, seismic, dynamic response, pushover/RSR, accidental load, pile/foundation, and integrity assessment.
• Thorough working knowledge of offshore specifications, API RP 2A-WSD/LRFD, ISO 19900/19901/19902, AISC 360, AWS D1.1, and relevant DNV practices.
• Practical knowledge of offshore survey requirements, as-built verification, weight control, constructability, fabrication, and offshore installation constraints.
• Strong technical leadership, engineering assurance, risk identification, quality control, communication, and multidisciplinary coordination skills.

What We Offer

• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.
• Engaging and collaborative work environment with a commitment to safety and sustainability.