THE OPPORTUNITY

Help shape offshore wellhead platform projects before they are sized, priced or committed. This role leads concept and pre-FEED studies, taking a client’s development need through to a defined, costed and executable concept ready for FEED. Your work will inform investment decisions on real offshore facilities.

About Icon Engineering

ICON Engineering has delivered offshore oil and gas projects across Australia and internationally since 1997. We are a privately owned engineering consultancy with a reputation built on practical delivery, including brownfields modifications, subsea engineering, P&A; campaigns, rig modifications and offshore construction, across WA, Southeast Asia and beyond. Our concept work is credible because the same people understand fabrication, installation and offshore execution.

THE ROLE

Reporting to the Business Line Manager, you will lead concept studies for wellhead platforms and associated facilities, including new installations, rig-installed structures and brownfield tie-ins. You will define the study scope, coordinate ICON’s structural, mechanical, process and installation disciplines, and work directly with the client to develop and compare options against technical, cost, schedule and risk criteria. You will build the fit-for-purpose basis for the client’s decision, and your concept needs to be constructable and installable in the real world.

Key Responsibilities

- Define study scope, deliverables, assumptions and design basis with the client, and manage the study programme, budget and risks.
- Identify, develop and compare concept options (platform configuration, wellhead and conductor arrangements, rig-installed versus jacket-based solutions, brownfield modification options),



and support option selection workshops and decision gates.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary inputs (structural, mechanical, process, piping, electrical and instrumentation, and marine and installation) to produce an integrated concept.
- Develop concept-level weights, layouts, constructability and installation methodologies (load-out, transport and installation, rig interfaces and hook-up) with input from fabrication yards, installation contractors and rig owners.
- Prepare concept-level cost estimates and schedules, including contingency and basis of estimate, using vendor and fabrication yard budget pricing where required.
- Lead study risk management, including safety in design input, HAZID participation and capture of key risks, assumptions and uncertainties for the next phase.
- Produce clear study reports, concept definition packages and presentations for client decision-makers and manage the handover into FEED.
- Support ICON’s business development with technical and commercial input to study proposals and follow-on work.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

Essential

- Degree-qualified engineer (mechanical or structural preferred), with 12+ years’ offshore oil and gas experience, including front-end, concept or FEED work.
- Demonstrated experience leading or technically coordinating multidisciplinary concept,



pre-FEED or FEED studies for offshore facilities.
- Experience developing and comparing design options and supporting client decisions at concept select.
- Practical understanding of offshore construction and installation (fabrication, load-out, T&I;, hook-up), sufficient to test constructability at concept stage.
- Experience preparing concept-level cost and schedule estimates, including basis of estimate, contingency and uncertainty.
- Working knowledge of risk and HSE processes, including safety in design and HAZID/HAZOP participation.
- Transparent technical writing and client presentation skills.

Desirable

- Wellhead platform, facilities or rig-installed structures experience.
- Brownfield modification or life-extension concept experience.
- Experience obtaining budget pricing from SE Asian fabrication yards and installation contractors.
- Chartered status (CPEng or equivalent).
- Exposure to Australian offshore regulatory requirements relevant to concept-stage facility definition (confirm the regulatory points ICON wants named).

WHY ICON WA's brownfields and wellhead platform pipeline is growing strongly through 2026–2027, and this role sits at the centre of it — not one project among many, but genuine ownership of a live delivery programme. You'll have direct access to senior management, real authority over contracts and vendors, and a technically credible engineering team behind you rather than one you're chasing for information. TO APPLY OR FIND OUT MORE

Contact Brendan Fernandez, Recruitment Specialist

- - [email protected]
- - +61 407 181 977

No agency applications will be accepted. Direct applications only.

📌 Senior Project Engineer/Project Manager (Perth)
🏢 Icon Engineering
📍 Perth