Are you a Senior Flexible Pipe Design Engineer looking for a new challenge?

Do you like working in very dynamic and international environment solving technical problems that will bring you to opportunities to create, influence and bring value for our offshore business?

Do you want to use your technical knowledge to execute projects together with skilled colleagues in a collaborative environment and provide support on a range of products for offshore flexible pipe systems?

Organization Description

Through NOV Completion & Production Solutions, we serve well intervention service providers and oil and gas producers, and we pursue opportunities around hydraulic fracture stimulation, wellbore intervention equipment, composite tubulars, pumps, floating production systems, and subsea production technologies. Our integrated approach delivers greater certainty, reliability, and peace of mind.

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Job Description

CLOSING DATE 10 NOVEMBER 2023

Senior Flexible Pipe Design Engineer

Are you an Experienced (Senior) Engineer from the O&G industry working with the design of subsea offshore systems and passionate about performing numerical simulations / computational analyses with an agile team in a project driven matrix organization, you have an excellent opportunity to join us as Senior Flexible Pipe Design Engineer with the latest technology in a position where you play an important role in the design of challenging offshore projects.

You will be part of NOV’s business unit Subsea Production Systems (SPS) within our office in Rio de Janeiro downtown or based in our flexible pipe factory located on Açu Port, São João da Barra district near Campos dos Goytacazes city, north of Rio de Janeiro state.

NOV SPS consists of about 1500 colleagues based in Denmark, Brazil, Norway, the UK, and US, including production plants in Kalundborg, Denmark and Açu, Brazil.

You’ll be joining a business unit with approximately 40 different nationalities, with customers based all around the world.

A dynamic, collaborative, and international culture - good energy.

You will be part of our international Engineering department, based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where we work on several major flexible pipe projects at a time in a multi-disciplinary environment. You will take part in a range of tasks in the projects, where you can leverage your skills as engineer to succeed.

From project beginning, you are part of all stages of the project from design phase to factory support at our manufacturing facility in Açu, Brazil. During the project, you will interpret customer specifications to design a competitive solution, will have to strive with performing complex calculations and reports, and will be carrying on important duties to meet project schedules and milestones. To do so, and to help us win crucial projects, you will interact with colleagues across the whole organization – from other Engineering disciplines, Materials, Supply Chain, Project Management, Fabrication and Operations spread in NOV Flexibles offices to our factories, but also with the Brazilian and Rest of World customers where you discuss and challenge their assumptions – again, to create the best solution for all.

And besides project with customers, you will contribute to the continuous improvement of our processes and methodology.

The Pipe System Design department in Brazil has approx. 30 employees split between our office at Rio downtown and Açu plant site and, globally, we are about 70 employees – a good mix of experienced and new engineers, who are all committed to delivering quality to our customers. The department is divided into project teams and is characterized by a youthful and energetic approach with high flexibility combining efforts toward offering the best solutions for our customers.

Qualifications

Are you the one?

To do all this, we expect that you have the following qualifications:

• You hold a B.SC or M.SC degree in engineering (mechanical, civil, ocean/naval);
• You have a senior experience from subsea engineering and riser system design;
• You have previous experience with flexible pipes;
• You have experience with solid mechanics, material science, thermodynamics and fluid dynamics;
• You have knowledge on numerical simulations e.g. in Orcaflex or similar is an advantage;
• You have programming skills e.g. in Python is an advantage;
• You are organized, structured oriented and can demonstrate great results from your career or study so far;
• You can achieve large individual responsibility while also working in a team;
• You speak and write English fluently.

Play a vital role – create and build our solutions from the beginning

You will have plenty of opportunities to explore your creativeness to derive riser solutions that will create the most value for both NOV and our customers. You will engage closely with other internal engineering disciplines and your abilities to model the offshore environment will be a key. That includes modeling of metocean data, vessel dynamics, seabed interaction, temperature, interaction with other ancillary structures and of course the characteristics of our flexible pipe structures.

This means that you will have the following main duties and responsibilities:

• review specifications, handle technical queries and document your work;
• gather and understand all the relevant analysis input needed for pipe system design analysis;
• design flexible pipe cross-sections technically feasible and cost effectively;
• perform and check engineering analysis, sensitivity studies and critical assessments on a need basis;
• optimize system layout and components and analyze system interfaces;
• attend internal and external meetings and interact with all relevant stakeholders;
• ensure that design documentation is updated accordingly and meets the contractual requirements;
• keep track of deliverables and schedule to meet planned dates of all assigned tasks and projects activities.

Technically powerful team player

Furthermore, we expect you to be a strong team player with a clear focus on deliverables and an understanding of how to apply technical information in connection with other engineering disciplines. You are a hard worker with a strong commitment to task and team, and when necessary, you can adapt and find alternative solutions. You also need to be analytical and structured, as you will be working with large amounts of data. Finally, it is important that you understand how to apply technical information in cooperation with other engineering disciplines.

Working with us

We offer an inspiring place to work with great opportunities to develop your skills and the opportunity to work with the brightest minds in the oil and gas industry. You will become part of a professional culture where we work together in teams with other dedicated professionals to achieve common goals.

We do offer a competitive salary compensation and a comprehensive package of fringe benefit.

Apply today:

If you feel qualified for this role, please apply online as soon as possible. Please submit relevant diplomas and training certificates together with your CV and cover letter (max 6 attachments). We accept applications in English as preferably.