Principal Digital Engineer - Rigid Pipelines & Risers

at  TechnipFMC

Location:Aberdeen, GB
Employment type: Employee
Place of work: Hybrid
Offshore/Onshore: Onshore
TechnipFMC is committed to driving real change in the energy industry. Our ambition is to build a sustainable future through relentless innovation and global collaboration – and we want you to be part of it. You’ll be joining a culture that values curiosity, expertise, and ideas as well as diversity, inclusion, and authenticity. Bring your unique energy to our team of more than 20,000 people worldwide, and discover a rewarding, fulfilling, and varied career that you can take in anywhere you want to go.
Job Purpose
At TechnipFMC, we deliver critical projects of a scale, scope, and technical challenges that you will not find anywhere else. We are looking for a Principal Digital Engineer who can join our multicultural research and development team in Aberdeen UK. You will have the opportunity to work on leading-edge technologies and be involved on multi-disciplinary projects to shape the energy industry’s future.

Job Description

• Supervise engineers / junior engineers, including organizing and monitoring associated work processes
• Participate, as needed, to project reviews to ensure the technical accuracy of the intended product/tool as well as its compliance with the development specification
• Development of digital platforms/tools to standardise and optimise the way a subsea pipeline/riser is delivered on projects. Digital platforms/tools can be related to engineering, procurement or construction activities
• Development of engineering tools, calculation modules developed primarily in Python, but could also apply to Mathcad, Excel/VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) related to subsea pipeline in-place design activities including but not limited to wall thickness design, passive thermal design, thermo-mechanical analysis, VIV (Vortex Induced Vibration) analysis, on-bottom stability, cathodic protection, subsea pipeline/riser ancillaries design, other topics related to subsea pipeline/riser limit state design
• Development of processes/methodologies associated with subsea pipeline in-place engineering to be implemented on actual subsea pipeline execution phases
• Participate to the department research & development budget proposal development as well as the short/medium term department strategy development
• Contributing to and adhering to modern software development practices, including Agile project management, source code version control and automated testing

You are meant for this job if:

• A good degree (BEng, MEng or equivalent) in a mechanical, structural or related engineering discipline
• Experience in subsea pipeline and/or riser engineering with a broad understanding of subsea pipeline and/or riser engineering activities as well as a good understanding of relevant design codes and recommended practices
• Track record of using finite element software, e.g., Abaqus or OrcaFlex
• Track record of using Mathcad
• Proven track record of software / digital platform development
• Working knowledge of Python for numerical applications, including experience with the scientific stack, i.e., NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib
• Experience with automated testing using pytest or equivalent Python framework
• Experience with source code version control using Git and Azure DevOps or equivalent
• Working knowledge of Excel, including VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) programming

Additional Skills

• Fluent in English
• Good communication skills, both written and oral
• Innovative mindset
• Solution-oriented
• Ability to work collaboratively in teams and develop meaningful relationships to achieve common goals
• Customer (internal/external) focus
• Self-motivated, with a drive for results and improvement
• Ability to manage change
• High Level of computer literacy, e.g., in MS Office

Please refer the Job description for details