Subsea Operations Engineer

Job Description

Activities

The job holder responsibilities are:

• Acting as FOPS Technical Authority for all Subsea Production system issues.
• Ensure the FOPS requirements are implemented in the design of all subsea equipment.
• Participate in the design reviews of subsea equipment.
• Participate in Factory Acceptance Testing and System Integration Testing (SIT) to confirm that multi-vendor subsea components physically fit and communicate together.
• Prepare Subsea Operating and Emergency Operating Procedures: Write clear step-by-step procedures for well start-ups, SAPL activiteis, shutdowns, chemical flushes, and SCSSV operations.
• Supports the Maintenance team for the subsea equipment maintenance engineering.
• Acting as CPY representative during offshore operations.
• Map Subsea Asset Hierarchy: Develop the structural framework (Inspection and Monitoring Programs, IMR) for all subsea architecture, including trees, manifolds, templates, flowlines, and umbilical.
• Establish Subsea Reliability Strategies: Run sessions explicitly focused on deepwater failure modes, high-pressure/high-temperature (HPHT) challenges, and marine growth.
• Support Flow Assurance Strategy in the development of operational guidelines to manage hydrate formation, wax deposition, and scale buildup inside the subsea network.
• Create Subsea Control System Protocols: Build the operating and troubleshooting procedures for the Subsea Control Modules (SCM).
• Develop ROV Intervention Tooling Plans: Ensure all subsea equipment is designed with standard ROV interfaces and verify that specialized ROV tools are sourced and ready for future repairs.
• Optimize Subsea Spare Parts Inventory: Identify critical, long-lead subsea spares that must be manufactured and stored onshore.
• Review Umbilical and Flowline Preservation: Oversee the fluid filling, pressurization, and monitoring of umbilical and pipelines while they await final commissioning on the seabed.
• Configure Subsea Data and Alarm Systems: Set up the data acquisition baselines, alarm limits, and real-time monitoring structures for downhole parameters.
• Verify Vendor Handover Documentation: Secure all specialized subsea data books, material certificates, pressure test records, and "as-installed" seabed layouts from the construction team.
• Participate in Operational Readiness Reviews: Collaborate with the wider offshore operations team to ensure the processing facilities are fully equipped to receive and control the subsea production stream.
• Ensure proper handover of SAPL from Project to Operations. SAPL operation, inspection and monitoring scope preparation and execution.

HSE Responsibilities

• Support and implement the Project HSEQ management system (plans, procedures and specifications)
• Adopt and demonstrate exemplary behaviour about HSEQ rules & requirements, as well as Company Ethics & “Code of Conduct” policy.
• Participate in Project reviews and make recommendations based on relevant experience.
• Promote HSE culture within the team and ensure HSE related topics are treated as top priorities in the discipline (Derogation, HAZOP, HAZID, HSE action plan, PRs actions, etc.)
• Ensure HSE standard of Contractors enrolled in maintenance disciplines are in line with TotalEnergies rules & referential.
• Participate and assist in the development and implementation of Environmental management and Energy efficiency System processes.

Authority to suspend activities when there is a potential or actual threat to human life, the installation or the environment, and notify forthwith the responsible supervisor

Qualifications

• Level / Diploma: BA/MA degree in Subsea Engineering or equivalent.
• Professional Experience: minimum 10 years in Oil and Gas industry including a minimum of 5 years in Subsea Operations.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills: adept at interaction with variety of contracts, including peers within a multi-disciplinary team, management, vendors and industry partners.
• Other required Competencies: Management of contractors/subcontractors, Strong HSE leadership.
• Fluent in English.
• Localization: Europe (Detailed Engineering) and Baku/Site (Execution).

Additional Information

Place of work (City & country ) : London, UK or Oslo, Norway (Detailed Engineering) and Baku/Site (Execution) after +/- 1 year

Working Schedule : Resident 5 days per week

Starting date : 01/09/2026

Duration of the mission : 12 Months