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 increasing need for detailed design competence across FEED studies, tenders, and EPCI projects. The role combines technical leadership and hands-on engineering with responsibility for building a small, focused discipline tailored to the needs of our projects.

Detailed Design is an important link between early-phase engineering and execution, supporting constructability, procurement, and 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 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

• 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 within 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

You should be comfortable working across organizational boundaries, challenging established ways of working, and demonstrating the value that Detailed Design can bring to projects. Strong collaboration and communication skills are essential, together with the credibility to work effectively with project teams, clients, discipline leads, and external engineering providers. You should be pragmatic, adaptable, and commercially aware, and take ownership rather than waiting for a fully defined framework.

We offer

• A flexible organisation characterised by 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 — with free access to in-house sports hall, gym, and squash courts.

How to apply

Please apply by December 5, 2026 via the application link on this page.

Contact

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