Lifting Engineer

Role Overview and Responsibilities

The Lifting Engineer is responsible for overseeing all offshore heavy lifting tasks and non-routine installations including Topsides, Jackets, subsea pipelines, umbilicals, skids, tie-in spools, risers, and J-Tubes. This role ensures that all assigned field project lifting engineering functions such as coordination, planning, and offshore mobilization are executed according to approved scopes of work, engineering drawings, design standards, safety, and environmental regulations.

The engineer will supervise contractors performing heavy lift and subsea installation work, ensuring compliance with approved method statements, project schedules, and quality standards. This includes guiding contractors through engineering tasks, reviewing and approving their construction engineering documentation in PDMS, and participating in engineering workshops like Constructability Review, SIMOPS, Schedule Risk Analysis, 3D Model Reviews, HAZOP, and Lifting Plan assessments.

Acting as the primary contact for lifting activities, the role coordinates with both internal teams such as Project Technical Services (PTS), Operations, and Project teams, and external entities like contractors and third-party agencies. During all project phases, including FEED and EPIC, the engineer ensures contractor adherence to standards, specifications, and approved designs during offshore heavy lifts and installations.

The engineer monitors contractor performance, manpower deployment, plant and equipment movement, and construction delays. Serving as the Construction Risk Management delegate, they identify and mitigate construction risk events, collaborating with senior discipline engineers throughout detailed engineering and procurement stages for lifting-related matters.

Key duties also involve reviewing lifting plans, certificates, schedules, method statements, and procedures to confirm project compliance, maintaining daily progress records, reporting anomalies or contractual deviations, and recommending corrective actions. The engineer manages work permit controls to ensure contractor compliance and maintains constant communication with other contractors, projects, and departments, especially liaison with Operations, PTS, and approved agencies. Furthermore, they contribute to developing new standards, specifications, guidelines and improving existing corporate documentation.