HTV Engineering Lead

Heavy Transportation Vessel (HTV) Engineering Lead Ready to lead the engineering behind some of the world's most challenging heavy transportation projects? Seaway7 are looking for an HTV Engineering Lead to join our Engineering team on a full-time, permanent basis located in our Oslo, Norway office. We welcome applications from candidates who do not currently reside in Oslo or have an existing right to work in Norway. However, please note that each applicant's individual circumstances would need to be reviewed and discussed before progressing to the next stage of the process. With a fleet of six semi-submersible Heavy Transportation Vessels (HTVs), Seaway7 is recognised as one of the world's most experienced HTV operators, delivering highly engineered transportation solutions for some of the most complex and demanding cargoes safely, efficiently, and on schedule. Our HTV fleet is a major part of the business, and our team members are essential to everything we do. As an HTV Engineering Lead, you will have the opportunity to work on the transportation of some of the largest and heaviest offshore structures in the world, while contributing to the global energy transition. Reporting to the Seaway7 Country Engineering Manager, Norway, the HTV Engineering Lead plays a vital role in leading and coordinating the HTV engineering team, ensuring the effective delivery of engineering activities across a varied portfolio of studies, tenders, and projects. Here is an exciting opportunity to support technical excellence, build collaboration, and play an important part in the continued growth and performance of our HTV operations. While this role has a primary focus on leading and developing the HTV Engineering team, you will also remain actively involved in the delivery of live projects and tenders, undertaking project engineering responsibilities as required. The role also includes some international travel to support HTV load-out and discharge operations, and candidates should be willing and able to travel when business needs require. What will you be doing? The role of HTV Engineering Lead will be varied, but some of the key responsibilities include:

• Provide functional and line management leadership to the HTV Engineering team.
• Lead, coordinate, and oversee HTV project engineering activities, ensuring the timely delivery of technical work scopes.
• Ensure all engineering designs, calculations, drawings, and technical documentation comply with project requirements, company standards, and relevant industry regulations.
• Promote continuous improvement initiatives and assist with the completion of internal engineering projects.
• Act as the primary engineering interface with Chartering, Operations, Fleet Management, and HSEQ teams, promoting effective cross-functional collaboration.
• Support the ongoing development, mentoring, and training of the HTV Engineering team to build capability and technical excellence.

What experience would we like you to have? Please note, if you don’t tick all the boxes below but feel you have some of the relevant skills and experience, we’re looking for, please do consider applying. We would encourage you to apply with a CV that highlights your transferable skills and experience.

• A relevant Bachelor or Master degree (for example Naval Architecture, Marine Engineering, Offshore Engineering). Consideration will be given to those with equivalent technical qualifications or experience
• Previous experience working in heavy transportation engineering at an appropriate level is an advantage
• Experience in managing or leading an engineering team is an advantage
• A demonstrable understanding of hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, marine operations, technical drawings and vessel strength evaluation
• Experience with float-on/float-off or roll-on/roll-off operations is an advantage
• A high level of interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively establish relationships and communicate, in English, across a variety of stakeholders both internal and external
• Experience with any of the following Standards and Engineering software packages is an advantage
• DNV rules or other class rules related to marine operations
• Autoship/Autoload or similar stability calculation software
• ABB Octopus or similar motion calculation software
• Optimoor or similar quayside mooring calculation software
• Autodesk AutoCAD
• Visual Basic for Microsoft Office
• Other programming languages, like Python or C++