Manager, Engineering

Company: Oceaneering International
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Location: Aberdeen
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you lead the Engineering and Design function to drive continuous improvement and align delivery with company goals. You will shape multidisciplinary teams, oversee key lifecycle phases, and deliver high-quality, compliant engineering solutions for offshore energy projects. You’ll foster a safety- and quality-focused culture while supporting digital transformation and operational efficiency. This position offers impact across projects and a path to broader leadership in a global, innovative company.

Pay / Benefits

  • competitive salary
  • comprehensive benefits package
  • opportunity to advance in an international company

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop the Engineering and Design team, ensuring competency and effective resource use to meet current and future needs
  • Ensure technical integrity, quality, and regulatory compliance of engineering work
  • Provide technical leadership across activities and resolve complex technical challenges
  • Coordinate engineering activities across Concept, FEED, Detailed Design, Fabrication and Construction
  • Define and manage engineering scope, deliverables, resources and priorities for project planning
  • Ensure activities comply with legislation, standards, and client/company procedures
  • Promote HSEQ culture within the team
  • Support recruitment, competency development, performance management and succession planning
  • Maintain technical relationships with clients, suppliers and internal stakeholders
  • Identify and implement improvements to processes, tools and digital technologies
  • Provide engineering input to tenders, proposals, estimates and planning
  • Participate in management and planning meetings with leadership and technical input

Key requirements

  • Extensive experience in engineering and design within the energy industry
  • Strong understanding of engineering principles, project execution methods and offshore operations
  • Knowledge of relevant engineering regulations, standards, and legislative requirements
  • Proven track record leading multidisciplinary engineering and design teams
  • Experience managing engineering scope, deliverables, resources, priorities, and interfaces
  • Strong technical problem-solving, decision-making and risk management abilities
  • Excellent communication, leadership and stakeholder-management skills
  • Experience developing engineering teams, including competency, performance, and development
  • Experience identifying and implementing engineering process improvements and digital transformations
  • Awareness of commercial and project-delivery considerations relevant to engineering activities
  • Working knowledge of engineering, design and project-management tools and systems
  • Ability to prepare and deliver technical presentations to internal and external stakeholders
  • Strong leadership
  • Effective communication
  • Stakeholder management
  • Engineering and design in energy sector
  • Lifecycle project management (Concept to Construction)
  • Regulatory and standards compliance

Posted: September 16th, 2026