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We encourage you to apply for the positions for which you meet the qualifications.\nJob Summary\nMurphy Oil Corporation is seeking a Senior Staff Riser Engineer to provide senior technical leadership and hands-on engineering support for deepwater riser, pipeline, mooring, floating facility, and offshore structural systems. The role requires a distinctive combination of offshore engineering expertise and advanced capability in computing, instrumentation, data transmission, and engineering data analysis.\nThe successful candidate will serve as a subject matter expert supporting offshore operations, subsea integrity management, life extension, fitness-for-service assessments, brownfield modifications, monitoring systems, and capital projects. The position will connect design-basis engineering with field-measured data to identify anomalies, quantify integrity risk, and develop practical recommendations for safe and reliable operations.\nThis role will work from the Houston Corporate office with periodic travel to offshore facilities, fabrication sites, contractor offices, and regulatory or technical meetings as required.\nResponsibilities\nProvide technical leadership for offshore riser, pipeline, mooring, platform, and structural systems throughout their life cycle.\nLead and review engineering analyses for riser, flowline, and mooring systems.\nManage offshore monitoring systems, instrumentation, data transmission, maintenance, and troubleshooting.\nAnalyze monitoring and operating data to support integrity and operational decisions.\nLead fatigue, remaining-life, fitness-for-service, and related engineering assessments.\nSupport offshore operations, integrity management, inspections, anomaly resolution, and risk-based maintenance.\nDevelop scopes and specifications, support bidding, and manage contractors and vendors.\nCoordinate technical interfaces across internal teams, contractors, regulators, and offshore personnel.\nReview and approve engineering designs, analyses, procedures, records, and regulatory documents.\nMentor technical staff and promote consistent practices and continuous improvement.\nClearly communicate technical findings, risks, and recommendations to all stakeholders.\nLicenses / Certifications\nLicensed Professional Engineer (PE) in the State of Texas, or ability to obtain Texas PE licensure through comity.\nWilling and able to complete required offshore safety and survival training, including HUET, and to travel offshore when needed.\nQualifications / Requirements\nBachelor’s degree in Naval Architecture, Civil/Structural, or Mechanical Engineering, or a related field\n20+ years of progressive offshore oil and gas engineering experience, including responsibility for deepwater risers, moorings, floating facilities, pipelines, subsea, or marine systems.\nExpertise across multiple riser types, including SCRs, hybrid, flexible, top-tensioned, and umbilicals.\nDeep knowledge of floating production and marine systems, including spars, semi-submersibles, TLPs, FPSOs, hulls, moorings, motions, station keeping, stability, and structural behavior.\nWorking knowledge of BSEE requirements and applicable API, DNV, ABS, ASME, BS 7910, and industry practices.\nExperience with an operator, engineering contractor, designer, or independent verifier; CVA or third-party verification experience preferred.\nAbility to lead multidisciplinary work, manage contractors and interfaces, review complex analyses, and make sound recommendations under operational constraints.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, including defensible technical documentation and presentations to management, regulators, and specialists.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience combining first-principles offshore engineering judgment with practical operating experience and strong computing skills. \nStrong preference for ability to connect riser, mooring, marine, and structural behavior with instrumentation architecture, reliable data transmission, software-enabled workflows, and rigorous data analysis.\nThe individual is required to follow all applicable safety precautions. Work is performed almost entirely in a controlled (i.e., inside) environment and does not typically subject the incumbent to any hazardous/extreme elements; some positions may require regularly moving or transporting items weighing up to 25 lbs. around the office for various needs. The successful candidate must be able to complete all essential physical requirements of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.\nPURPOSE\nWe believe in providing energy that empowers people.\nMISSION\nWe challenge the norm, tap into our strong legacy and use our foresight and financial discipline to deliver inspired energy solutions.\nVISION\nWe see a future where we are an industry leader who is positively impacting lives for the next 100 years and beyond.\nVALUES & BEHAVIORS\nDo Right Always\nRespect people, safety, environment and the law\nFollow through on commitments\nMake it better\nThink Beyond Possible\nOffer solution\nStep up and lead\nDon’t settle for “good enough”\nEmbrace new opportunities\nStay With It\nShow resilience\nLean into challenges\nSupport each other\nConsider the implications\n_________________________________________________________________________________________________\nMurphy Oil Corporation participates in the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' E-Verify program. Please read the E-Verify Notice-English / E-Verify Notice-Spanish and Right to Work Notice before proceeding with your job application.\nFor additional information, you may also visit the USCIS website.\nMurphy Oil Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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