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Naval & WCR Engineer

PR/080274
  • Negotiable
  • Italy, Milan
  • Permanent
Position: Naval & WCR Engineer

Location: Milan, Italy

Reporting to: Jacket Engineering Coordinator

Role Overview:
We are looking for a Naval & WCR Engineer to manage naval architecture assessments and the platform weight control program for a fixed offshore wellhead platform. The role ensures compliance with safety, stability, structural, and transportation requirements throughout design, fabrication, and installation.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Review naval architecture analyses for load-out, transportation, lifting, and installation of jacket and topside structures.
  • Validate hydrodynamic, stability, and motion response calculations.
  • Verify vessel/barge capabilities, sea fastening, ballasting, and lifting configurations.
  • Manage the weight control system, tracking weights, center of gravity, and weight growth margins.
  • Prepare weight reports, trend analyses, and forecasts for project and client teams.
  • Coordinate with structural, mechanical, layout, lifting, fabrication, and installation teams.
  • Ensure compliance with DNV, API, ISO, and project-specific weight control standards.
Requirements:
  • BSc in Naval Architecture or Marine Engineering.
  • Relevant experience, including offshore.
  • Proficient with naval analysis tools (MOSES, OrcaFlex, SESAM, etc.).
  • Strong knowledge of platform stability, marine operations, and lifting/transportation engineering.
  • Advanced Excel and weight database management skills.
  • Excellent written and spoken English.
Deliverables:
  • Marine Operations Summary & Loadout Plans
  • Weight Control Reports & COG Tracking
  • Stability Analysis Reports
  • Seafastening & Transportation Drawings
  • Weight Database & Trend Charts


Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.

Adrian Davidson Recruitment Manager

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