SURF Flow Assurance Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate all Flow Assurance engineering activities throughout project execution.
• Provide technical guidance and expertise relating to subsea production systems, SURF packages, topsides and operational interfaces.
• Review, supervise and validate Flow Assurance studies performed by engineering contractors and third-party specialists.
• Support the development and optimisation of production system design solutions.
• Conduct and review transient and steady-state flow assurance analyses.
• Evaluate and manage hydrate, wax, slugging, thermal and operability risks throughout field development.
• Provide technical support relating to shutdown, restart and production operating scenarios.
• Interface closely with reservoir, well performance, process, subsea, operations and project engineering teams.
• Review contractor engineering deliverables, technical queries, design deviations and derogation requests.
• Ensure engineering activities comply with project specifications, international standards and HSE requirements.
• Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies throughout project execution.
• Participate in project technical reviews, design reviews and multidisciplinary engineering workshops.
• Assist with commissioning planning, start-up preparation and operational readiness activities.
• Support field operations teams during commissioning, start-up and offshore campaign activities where required.
• Contribute to lessons learned exercises and project closeout activities.
• Provide recommendations to optimise cost, schedule, operability and production performance while maintaining safety and quality objectives.

Required Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or equivalent qualification.
• Minimum 15 years of Flow Assurance engineering experience within the oil and gas sector.
• Strong expertise in deepwater and ultra-deepwater offshore developments.
• Significant experience supporting detailed engineering and project execution phases.
• Advanced knowledge and practical experience using OLGA simulation software.
• Strong understanding of multiphase flow behaviour and production system hydraulics.
• Experience performing transient analysis and flow assurance studies for offshore production systems.
• Proven experience supporting shutdown, restart and operational flow assurance assessments.
• Experience managing interfaces between SURF, Subsea Production Systems (SPS), process facilities and operations teams.
• Strong technical review and contractor management experience.