Subsea Tooling Manager

Newcastle upon Tyne
2 weeks ago
Applications closed

Related Jobs

View all jobs

Software Engineer - Robotics

Subsea Tooling Manager
Location: Aberdeen, Newcastle or North Yorkshire
Role Purpose
The Subsea Tooling Manager is responsible for the technical, commercial, and strategic management of a global subsea tooling portfolio. The role ensures tooling solutions are engineered, delivered, and cost-managed to meet project requirements safely, efficiently, and reliably, while driving performance, profitability, and market growth.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership

  • Lead the design, development, selection, and integration of subsea tooling, including pipeline PIG launch and recovery systems and subsea connectors.
  • Provide technical leadership to tooling engineers, ensuring compliance with industry standards and best practices.
  • Ensure tooling designs are maintained, certified, and compliant with regulatory and quality requirements.
  • Support projects through technical reviews, feasibility assessments, and operational troubleshooting.
  • Drive continuous improvement in tooling performance, reliability, and innovation.
    Commercial & Strategic Management
  • Own the commercial strategy for subsea tooling, including budgeting, pricing, and cost control.
  • Support sales enquiries and prepare technical and commercial proposals in response to RFQs.
  • Manage vendor relationships, procurement strategies, and contract negotiations.
  • Optimise tooling inventory and lifecycle management to reduce cost and lead times.
  • Identify market trends, emerging technologies, and growth opportunities.
  • Develop and deliver short-term revenue improvement plans and a 3–5 year strategic roadmap, including funded new product development.
  • Support marketing activities, customer engagement, and industry exhibitions.
    Project, Operational, HSE & Quality
  • Coordinate with internal teams to ensure tooling is delivered to customer expectations.
  • Ensure timely resolution of equipment and operational issues.
  • Champion a strong HSE culture and ensure compliance with safety, legislative, and quality systems.
  • Participate in audits, incident investigations, and continuous improvement activities.
    Key Competencies
  • Strong technical expertise in subsea tooling and ROV-related systems.
  • Proven commercial and financial management capability.
  • Leadership, strategic planning, and execution skills.
  • Strong organisational, communication, and problem-solving abilities.
  • Commitment to safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
    Qualifications & Experience
  • Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Marine Engineering, Robotics, or related discipline.
  • Chartered Engineer status desirable.
  • 7+ years’ experience in subsea tooling, ROV operations, or subsea engineering.
  • Proven experience in design-and-build environments and technical team management.
  • Strong knowledge of offshore energy industry standards (API, ISO, IMCA).
    Work Environment
  • Office-based with regular travel to operational teams, customers, and exhibitions in the UK and overseas

Subscribe to Future Tech Insights for the latest jobs & insights, direct to your inbox.

By subscribing, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service.

Industry Insights

Discover insightful articles, industry insights, expert tips, and curated resources.

Jobs Careers

Robotics Jobs for Career Switchers in Their 30s, 40s & 50s (UK Reality Check)

Robotics looks futuristic from the outside. People picture humanoid machines, cutting-edge labs & young engineers writing complex code. In the UK job market, the reality is more practical and more encouraging for career switchers: robotics is already embedded across manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, agriculture, defence, construction & inspection. That means there are real jobs for people in their 30s, 40s & 50s who bring operational experience, delivery skills, quality discipline & the ability to work with real-world systems. This article gives you a clear UK reality check on robotics careers for career switchers: what roles genuinely exist, which paths are most realistic, what skills employers actually hire for, how long retraining tends to take & whether age is a factor.

Jobs

How to Write a Robotics Job Ad That Attracts the Right People

Robotics is moving rapidly from research labs into real-world deployment. Across the UK, robots are now used in manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, defence, agriculture, autonomous vehicles and service industries. As adoption accelerates, demand for skilled robotics professionals continues to grow. Yet many employers struggle to attract the right candidates. Robotics job adverts often receive either very few applications or large numbers of unsuitable ones. Experienced robotics engineers, meanwhile, routinely skip adverts that feel vague, unrealistic or disconnected from how robotics systems actually work in practice. In most cases, the problem is not the talent pool — it is the job advert itself. Robotics professionals are systems thinkers. They care deeply about constraints, integration and real-world performance. A poorly written job ad signals weak technical understanding and unrealistic expectations. A well-written one signals credibility, seriousness and a mature robotics programme. This guide explains how to write a robotics job ad that attracts the right people, improves applicant quality and positions your organisation as a credible employer in the robotics sector.

Education Jobs

Maths for Robotics Jobs: The Only Topics You Actually Need (& How to Learn Them)

If you are applying for robotics jobs in the UK it is easy to assume you need degree level maths across everything. Most roles do not work like that. What hiring managers usually mean by “strong maths” is much more practical: you can move confidently between coordinate frames you understand rotations without getting lost you can reason about kinematics, control, uncertainty & optimisation you can turn that maths into working code in a robotics stack This guide focuses on the only maths topics that consistently show up across common UK roles like Robotics Software Engineer, Controls Engineer, Autonomous Systems Engineer, Perception Engineer, SLAM Engineer, Robotics Research Engineer, Mechatronics Engineer & Robotics Systems Engineer. You will also get a 6 week learning plan, portfolio projects & a resources section so you can learn fast without drowning in theory.

🍪 We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience on our website. By continuing to use this site, you consent to the use of cookies as described in our Cookie Policy. You can review our Cookie Policy for more information.