FPSO Lead Telecom Engineer
Location: France (2025–2026 Engineering & Procurement Phase), then China (2026 Construction/Commissioning Phase at the Contractor Integration Yard)
Start Date: Q2 2025
Duration: 1 year (renewable)
Employment Type: Residential

About the Project:
Join our client's Project, currently in the EPSCC (Engineering, Procurement, Supply, Construction, and Commissioning) phase. This exciting development involves production from subsea wells to a spread-moored FPSO (VLCC conversion) with a capacity of 75,000 barrels of oil per day, 60,000 barrels of water injection, 400 MMscfd of gas reinjection, and oil tandem offloading. The project operates with a contextualised technical referential and high HSE standards.

Role Overview:
As the FPSO Lead Telecom Engineer, you will play a critical role in supervising and coordinating telecom engineering activities performed by the EPSCC contractor for Block 20. Your expertise will ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and technical standards, delivering high-quality results within schedule and cost constraints.

Key Responsibilities:

• HSE Leadership:
  • Demonstrate exemplary behavior regarding HSE practices.
  • Implement and enforce HSE requirements within the telecom domain.
• Engineering Supervision:
  • Oversee telecom engineering activities by the EPSCC contractor, ensuring compliance with technical and HSE standards.
  • Provide technical support and challenge contractors to optimise cost, work, and schedule.
  • Review and comment on engineering documents, consolidating feedback from specialists and entities as needed.
  • Ensure timely responses to clarifications, deviations, and unexpected technical issues.
• Project Coordination:
  • Prepare deviation requests to FPSO Key Technical Requirements and follow up with Head Office experts for resolution.
  • Assist in procurement, commissioning, and operations preparation activities.
  • Participate in project technical reviews, ensuring timely implementation of findings.
• Deliverables and Reporting:
  • Manage supervision and coordination of telecom engineering activities.
  • Ensure proper reporting to the Engineering Manager, highlighting critical issues and proposing remedial actions.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Advanced expertise in telecom engineering activities within oil and gas projects.
• Proven ability to lead, organise, and coordinate multidisciplinary tasks effectively.
• Solution-oriented mindset with rigorous attention to detail.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Languages: English (mandatory); French is a plus.

Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.