Field Engineer
Role Overview
The Field Engineer solves field and yard issues using company procedures, technical experience and judgment, with moderate guidance.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The Field Engineer solves field and yard issues using company procedures, technical experience and judgment, with moderate guidance.
Key responsibilities
- Ensure work complies with Quality, Health, Safety and Environment policies and procedures.
- Recommend technical and drawing changes that improve safe operations and clarify installation procedures.
- Develop vessel layouts and barge loadout plans for safe, timely offshore installation.
- Participate in constructability, readiness, hazard identification and job safety reviews; communicate recommendations.
- Review project documents, report discrepancies and confirm work is within proposed equipment capabilities.
- Prepare offshore installation procedures covering methods, sequences, installation aids, temporary works and consumables.
- Prepare material and loadout lists; liaise on procurement and coordinate project departments, subcontractors and deployment readiness.
- Inspect pre-rigging, loadouts and sea fastening; verify fabricated-item loadouts and acknowledge materials received.
- Coordinate cargo movement inputs with logistics teams and liaise with customer, subcontractor and operations representatives.
- Monitor progress and site conditions; advise the Operations Engineer of potential scope, schedule or execution changes.
- Present work scopes to offshore personnel and issue field sketches, data sheets and checklists as needed.
- Assist with technical problem resolution and prepare post-job reports, as-built documents and records.
Essential qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
- 3–5 years of offshore installation experience.
- Knowledge of AutoCAD or similar tools.
- Adequate knowledge of design and offshore project execution.
- Basic knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint; 3D software experience is also mentioned.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Willingness to travel to job sites, including offshore, and work in varied environmental conditions.
Travel and work setting
- Offshore travel for job execution and onshore site work as required.
- Travel to different job sites and work in varied environmental conditions.
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