Subsea Structure Engineer
PR/080254
Posted: 16/12/2025
- Negotiable
- Italy, Milan
- Permanent
Position: Subsea Structure Engineer (Shallow-Water Offshore Project)
Role Overview:
We are seeking a Subsea Structure Engineer to provide design, verification, installation support, and integrity assurance for subsea structures in shallow-water offshore projects. Structures include manifolds, PLETs, PLEMs, jumpers, tie-ins, pipeline supports, and foundations.
Key Responsibilities:
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.
Role Overview:
We are seeking a Subsea Structure Engineer to provide design, verification, installation support, and integrity assurance for subsea structures in shallow-water offshore projects. Structures include manifolds, PLETs, PLEMs, jumpers, tie-ins, pipeline supports, and foundations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform structural strength, global/local analysis, fatigue assessments, and evaluate hydrodynamic loads and soil–structure interaction.
- Review FE models using ANSYS, Abaqus, SACS, or OrcaFlex.
- Develop GA drawings, structural layouts, foundations, and interface drawings with pipelines, controls, and umbilicals.
- Provide installation engineering support for lifting, rigging, positioning, and tie-ins; support offshore campaigns.
- Coordinate with pipeline, controls, umbilical, geotechnical, and fabrication teams.
- Review WPS/PQR, NDT plans, coatings, and fabrication tolerances; support FAT/SIT activities.
- Assist with in-service integrity assessments and update structural models for life-of-field evaluation.
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Civil/Structural Engineering, or Naval Architecture; Master’s preferred.
- Subsea/offshore structural engineering experience.
- Proficiency in ANSYS, Abaqus, SACS, or OrcaFlex.
- Knowledge of API, DNV, and ISO standards.
- Offshore exposure preferred.
- Strong communication, problem-solving, and interface skills.
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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