- Company: VURIN Group
- Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
- Job type: Full-time
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About the role
The VURIN Group is a diversified portfolio of businesses across various sectors of the oil and gas and infrastructure industries, in Nigeria and beyond. We are looking for a Subsea SURF Lead to provide technical leadership across subsea and SURF engineering, installation readiness, project interfaces, and commissioning support. This full-time role is based in Port Harcourt, Rivers.
Responsibilities
- Translate client and project requirements into technically complete and controlled deliverables.
- Establish technical review and acceptance gates for assigned packages.
- Review engineering deliverables, calculations, and technical interfaces through to closure.
- Coordinate technical input from subsea engineers, installation engineers, and project specialists.
- Ensure installation methods, documentation, and personnel interfaces are prepared before execution.
- Identify and escalate readiness blockers before they impact safety, quality, or schedule.
- Manage technical interfaces across engineering, fabrication, marine, and commissioning teams.
- Lead timely, evidence-based responses to technical queries, field discoveries, and design changes.
- Maintain interface, technical query, and change registers with clear ownership and closure status.
- Ensure applicable engineering, HSEQ, quality, and technical assurance requirements are consistently applied.
- Coordinate inspection, testing, and verification evidence relevant to the assigned scope.
- Track non-conformance reports (NCRs), incidents, and quality actions through to closure.
- Convert project experience into lessons learned and improved methods.
- Report package progress, installation readiness, and key decisions using traceable evidence.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Subsea Engineering, Offshore Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil/Structural Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, or another relevant Engineering discipline.
- 8 – 12 years of relevant engineering/project experience, with significant exposure to subsea, SURF, offshore installation, or subsea project delivery.
- Demonstrated experience managing technical queries, deviations, field discoveries, design changes, and technical dispositions.
- Practical experience managing engineering deliverables, calculations, technical bases, design reviews, and comment closure.
- Experience with installation readiness, HSEQ, quality, inspection/testing, and technical assurance controls within offshore, marine, or project environments.
- Demonstrated experience leading or coordinating subsea/SURF engineering packages, installation activities, commissioning support, or offshore/site execution.
- Experience coordinating interfaces across engineering, fabrication, marine, installation, commissioning, suppliers, project delivery, and clients.
- Relevant professional or technical certification in subsea engineering, offshore engineering, SURF, installation, or project engineering is an advantage.
How to apply
Interested and qualified candidates should click here to apply online.
