LCV – Pre-Commissioning Field Engineer; Pipeline 

• Start Date: April 2026 
• Duration: 12 months renewable 
• Location: Paris, France 
• Status: Residential 

The LCV Pre‑commissioning Engineer will support the Pre‑commissioning Lead in overseeing and assuring all pipeline and umbilical pre‑commissioning activities executed by contractors. The role focuses on technical review, coordination, and ensuring full compliance with COMPANY standards, project specifications, and regulatory requirements. 
This position is partly based in Paris with extensive rotations onboard the LCV and onshore in Afungi. Offshore, the engineer will work shifts and report to the LCV CSR, with functional reporting to the Pre‑commissioning Lead onshore.
Key responsibilities include supervising pipeline pre‑commissioning operations (vacuum pull, MEG filling, flooding, cleaning, gauging, pressure testing, dewatering, drying, nitrogen packing, surveys, and installation/recovery of flooding caps and pig traps) as well as umbilical and optical fiber testing (pre/post‑loadout, installation monitoring, pre/post‑installation tests, and post hook‑up tests) across Phases 0, 1 and 2 via the EPCI Contractor.

Activities:
•    Support the Pre‑commissioning Lead in coordinating interfaces between installation teams, contractors, onshore engineering, HSE, and commissioning.
•    Report to the pre-commissioning lead about all technical issues that require to be specifically addressed in documentation review or during installation and mobilization progress meetings (Management of Change)
•    Serve as the client focal point for all pre‑commissioning activities on vessels, at yards, or onshore facilities. 
•    Review and provide engineering input during procedure development and interface planning with installation, commissioning, and vendor teams.
•    Supply verified information to the reporting system that allows full tracking of precommissioning activities. Help mitigate potential orders
•    Develop and maintain a strong working relationship with vessel operations team 
•    Participate in toolbox talks, JSA reviews, HIRAs, and SIMOPS coordination.
•    Review and sign off contractor and sub-contractor’s offshore test records, pressure charts, OTDR traces, pigging logs, calibration certificates, and data sheets.
•    Ensure all field documentation is complete, accurate, and suitable for inclusion in handover dossiers.
•    Contribute to lesson learned of the project and close-out report
•    Assist to promote and enforce safety expectations throughout the offshore and onshore pre‑commissioning phases.
•    Provide detailed daily precommissioning progress reports, deviations, risks, and forward plans to the pre-commissioning lead.
•    Support the Pre‑commissioning Lead in preparing client internal reports, readiness dashboards, and post‑job evaluations.
•    Carry out other duties as delegated by the pre-commissioning lead

Accountabilities
•    The preparation of the vessel pre-commissioning campaign
•    Supervising onshore and offshore pipeline pre‑commissioning operations.
•    Verify all steps follow the approved method statements and safe systems of work and intervene immediately when deviations, non‑conformances, or risks are identified.

Qualifications/Experience required:
•    Degree in Engineering or similar with a minimum 10 years in Oil & Gas industry with related offshore technical, quality and HSE oversight experience and at least 5 years of offshore pre commissioning of pipeline
•    Strong knowledge of pipeline operations for offshore oil and gas projects 
•    Familiarity with deepwater operations, subsea production systems, and vessel-based operations.
•    Previous client or operator’s experience preferred (assurance/verification role).
•    Knowledge of industry standards (DNV, API, ISO) and precommissioning best practices.
•    Ability to work under the Pre commissioning Lead while managing assigned scopes independently.
•    Ability to interpret P&IDs, PFDs, isometric drawings, hydraulic profiles, and CFD reports.
•    Ability to work well in high-stress, fast paced environment with others in an international and multi-cultural environment
•    Ability to travel internationally and willingness to support back-to-back during leave period
•    Fluency in the English language with strong communication, coordination skills with multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.
•    Current BOSIET, OGUK, ENG1 and offshore medical certification prior to mobilizing offshore 

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