Detailed Design Discipline Manager

About the job

Ocean Installer AS is seeking an experienced Detailed Design Discipline Manager to develop the company's detailed design capability. This is a new role created to support the growing need for detailed design expertise across FEED studies, tenders, and EPCI projects. The position combines technical leadership with hands-on engineering and involves building a focused discipline tailored to the needs of Ocean Installer's projects.

Detailed Design serves as a critical link between early-phase engineering and execution, supporting constructability, procurement, and the efficient transition from FEED into project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Establish and develop Ocean Installer's Detailed Design discipline and ways of working.
• Provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering support to FEED studies, tenders, and EPCI projects.
• Define fit-for-purpose detailed design scopes and deliverables based on requirements.
• Act as the detailed design focal point within EPCI project teams and ensure effective interfaces with other engineering disciplines.
• Support the transition from FEED into detailed design, procurement, and execution.
• Support tender teams in defining and assessing detailed design scope, execution strategy, and requirements.
• Develop scopes of work for external engineering providers and follow up with design houses and specialist subcontractors.
• Review and quality-assure third-party engineering deliverables and ensure technical, contractual, and commercial alignment.
• Work closely with clients, suppliers, and internal engineering disciplines.
• Maintain relevant technical competence and awareness of developments within detailed design.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical, Structural, Marine, Subsea Engineering, or another relevant engineering discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant engineering experience, with significant experience in subsea detailed design and EPCI project execution.
• Demonstrated experience in technical leadership, preferably as a Lead Engineer, Discipline Lead, Discipline Manager, or Subject Matter Expert.
• Experience from an EPCI contractor, engineering/design house, subsea contractor, or similar environment.
• Strong understanding of the interfaces between engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, and offshore installation.

Personal qualities

• Pragmatic, adaptable, and commercially aware.
• Comfortable working across organizational boundaries and challenging established ways of working.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Able to demonstrate the value that Detailed Design can bring to projects.
• Takes ownership and does not wait for a fully defined framework.

We offer

• A flexible organisation with direct lines of communication and swift decision-making processes.
• A great working environment in a dynamic and international company.
• Competitive pension and insurance schemes.
• Flexibility to work from home.
• Regular social events organised by our social club — Social Installer.

How to apply

Please apply by December 8, 2026. For more information, visit Ocean Installer's website.