Lebbeke, Flemish Region, Belgium
Experienced engineer with 12 years in the Oil & Gas (7 years) and Renewable Energy (5 years) industries, specializing in offshore installation analysis using Orcaflex. Expertise includes land-to-land cable interconnection, cable dynamics and offshore system integration. Currently working at Jan de Nul in the offshore renewables sector, focusing on subsea cable installation analysis. Strong background in engineering analysis, process optimization, and ensuring safe and efficient offshore operations.
As an Offshore Installation Analysis Engineer, I am responsible for leading and/or providing support to cable installation projects, mainly in the renewable energy industry. The scope of an installation project varies depending on project demands but generally includes: - Cable loadout analysis - Cable lay analysis - Cable beach pull-in analysis - Cable abandonment & recovery analysis - First end platform pull-in analysis - Second end platform pull-in analysis - In-line joint analysis - Omega joint analysis - Cable burial analysis Working on offshore projects requires a high level of engineering expertise and often involves state-of-the-art procedures and analyses. An Installation Analysis Engineer must assess cable integrity by evaluating new machinery designs, vessel assets, and equipment, as well as proposing solutions to ensure a safe and efficient installation campaign. When necessary, I also participate on board the installation vessel to add value to the project by serving as a point of expertise on technical installation issues.
The Tender Engineer is responsible to: - Manage offers from different clients; - Analyze the client specifications and evaluate the critical points regarding to factory capability and against the Standards (ISO, DNV, API and IEC); - Deal with the deviations trying to meet the client's needs; - Promptly lead a kick off meeting to deal with the technical and some commercial issues; - Design a profitable cross section for Thermoplastic and ST umbilicals according to the factory capability, client specs and international standards; - Design steel tubes according to DNV-OS-F101 and ISO 13628-5 2009; - Be in contact with suppliers to quote the necessary materials for the project; - Estimate the product, engineering, packing, installations, incoterms, logistics and system peculiarity costs; - Evaluate an adequate packing to the offered product; - Analyze the system feasibility through Global and Installation Analysis using Orcaflex, Orcabend and Uflex; - Elaborate the technical proposal.
The position requires: - Analyze the customer's technical specification to understand the project conditions; - Establish contact with customer by technical questionnaire form or personally in order to clarify technical details; - Identify client's needs to design a more profitable solution; - Work on umbilical cable improvements for a more profitable solution; - Propose and discuss the procedures to be taken in the project with client; - Perform global and local dynamic analysis using FEA to obtain tensions, curvatures and other system parameters, or local responses of the product due to the system loads; - Design the Bend Stiffener using an iterative method fed by tensions and curvatures coming from global dynamic analysis; - Analyze the current and wave influence on stability of the system over the seabed; - Elaborate in-line diagrams with the proposed scope of supply using CAD software; - Verify the product inspection plans; - Define parameters for assembly procedures of umbilical and flexible pipe accessories; - For some clients, the project engineer leads the document flow from other areas.
Due to the demand of a specific product or lack of suppliers, the engineering department must develop a manufacturer to deliver a specific material and we have to check its manufacturing process, test laboratories and manufacturing plants to verify if they are suitable for the product with guarantee of attending the required specification by client. The engineering has to establish requirements for Raw material, test parameters and procedures, inspections points and any other issue to certify the correct production. Technical visits with witness points are necessary to ensure that the tests are being correctly performed and to certify that the plant has the capacity to produce properly.
- Research and Development Engineering (Product design, structural analysis using FEA, experimental analysis) - Technical Support Department: Create an effective method to diagnose manufacturing defects;