Saipem Spa

Weight Control Engineer_Offshore

JOB TITLE: Weight Control Engineer

BUSINESS LINE: Asset Based Services

DEPARTMENT/FUNCTION: Structural and Architectural Design

Saipem is a global leader in the engineering and construction of major projects for the energy and infrastructure sectors, both offshore and onshore. Saipem is “One Company” organized into five business lines - Asset Based Services, Energy Carriers, Offshore Wind, Sustainable Infrastructures, Robotics & Industrialized Solutions. The company has 8 fabrication yards and an offshore fleet of 23 construction vessels (of which 21 owned and 2 owned by third parties and managed by Saipem) and 15 drilling rigs, of which 8 owned. Always oriented towards technological innovation, the company’s purpose is “Engineering for a sustainable future”. As such Saipem is committed to supporting its clients on the energy transition pathway towards Net Zero, with increasingly digital means, technologies and processes geared for environmental sustainability. Listed on the Milan Stock Exchange, it is present in more than 50 countries around the world and employs about 30,000 people of over 120 nationalities.

Always committed to promoting and supporting the values of diversity and inclusion, Saipem confirms its commitment to valuing differences as a source of mutual enrichment. To this end, it promotes and encourages conditions that allow the removal of every obstacle that limits the full expression of people and their complete development within the organization. It protects and guarantees work conditions that respect individual dignity, while promoting a collaborative, harmonious, fair and supportive work environment.

Within the Business Line Asset Based Services the Structural and Architectural Design department is looking for a Weight Control Engineer who will support our Engineering team in the execution of large scale EPC Project. Weight Control Engineer shall ensure that the weight management and philosophy meet project and client requirements, as well as international codes, Company specifications and industry standards and regulations.

The position shall be able to interface and interact with all project disciplines to ensure a correct estimation of the weights of bulks & equipment, being responsible to maintain the weight databases (MON) of live and past projects.

Technical Skills

  • The Weight Control Engineer executes the activities within own area of responsibility, ensuring the compliance with the QA/QC and HSE requirements.

Own tasks include:

  • Prepare and issue Weight Control Procedures
  • Plan, prepare and issue weight reports on a regular basis
  • Set up, operation and maintenance of weight control software
  • Interface with Project Team, collecting data transmitted by disciplines of dry, lift and operating weights of each single weight element
  • Review data provided by all engineering disciplines in terms of overall consistency with plant layout
  • Implement, review, analyze, classify and process data supplied by engineering disciplines
  • Propose and organize any corrective action to ease and secure the communication of the data
  • Provide an accurate analysis and evaluation of any weight deviation or center of gravity variation and their effect on the limits set by the project and proposing, when necessary, corrective actions (target weight)
  • Identify and monitor weight implication due to design changes
  • Perform back-up of input data to guarantee traceability of the data for the whole duration of the project

QUALIFICATION: Degree in technical disciplines or similar qualification

KNOWLEDGE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE: Professional English Level

LABOUR RELATIONSHIP: permanent contract

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE: At least 3 years of experience in plant engineering on weight-critical projects, including preferential experience in weight control on offshore steel structures (e.g. jackets, topsides, floating or subsea structures).

IT SKILLS: MON (weight databases), Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, Microstation, SmartPlant Review, Navisworks

LOCATION: Milano (MI)


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