What will you be doing
Role Overview
We are looking for a Principal Pre-commissioning Engineer to join our pre-commissioning team in Kuala Lumpur. In this role, you will be responsible for planning, leading, and delivering subsea pre-commissioning activities from engineering through offshore execution and close-out.
Key Responsibilities
- Promote safety behaviour and safety in design.
- Lead a multidiscipline team to deliver subsea pre-commissioning scopes.
- Define pre-commissioning philosophy, execution plans, schedules, and budgets.
- Act as technical authority for procedures, methods, and subcontractor activities.
- Review subsea designs to ensure pigging, flooding, hydrotesting, and dewatering feasibility.
- Prepare scopes of work, technical specifications, and purchase requisitions.
- Evaluate and manage pre-commissioning subcontractors and equipment suppliers.
- Provide offshore leadership during execution and ensure HSE and quality compliance.
- Coordinate interfaces with clients, SPS partners, installation teams, and third-party contractors.
- Support tenders with technical input, execution strategies, risk identification, and cost estimates.
- Capture lessons learned and ensure full documentation and project close-out.
What experience would we like you to have
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical, Civil, Naval Architecture, or Marine/Ocean Engineering.
- Master's Degree preferred.
- 10+ years experience in subsea pre-commissioning within the Oil & Gas industry.
- Strong experience leading the pre-commissioning scope on complex deepwater projects.
- Proven expertise in pipeline and umbilical pre-commissioning engineering and operations.
- Pipeline and flexible pre-commissioning (flooding, hydrotest, pigging, dewatering).
- Intelligent/caliper pigging and leak detection.
- Umbilical hydraulic, electrical, and fiber optic testing.
- Mechanical completion and handover systems.
- Knowledge of API, ASME, DNV, and ISO subsea standards.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project.
- Valid BOSIET.
- Offshore medical fitness certificate.
