P3P3 — Mid-Level Professional
Proficient/Professional
Lead design of individual subsea components or small systems.
What this level means
Fully competent professional; works independently on standard projects
- Scope
- Features or a sub-system end-to-end
- Autonomy
- Works independently on standard work; reviewed on the non-standard
- Complexity
- Diverse problems; adapts existing approaches
- Impact
- Project / team outcomes
- Decision rights
- Owns implementation decisions for own scope
- Leadership
- Mentors juniors informally
- Typical experience
- 3–5 yrs
What you'd do
- Lead design of individual subsea components
- Analyze test data
- Mentor P1/P2 engineers
- Design subsea components
- Analyze and interpret test results
- Guide junior engineers
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Component design
- Data analysis
- Mentorship
- Subsea component design
- Test data analysis
- Mentoring techniques
- Initiative in identifying technical improvements
- Effective collaboration
What good looks like
- ~4–6 years’ experience
- Possibly including time offshore
- Licensed Engineer-in-Training (EIT)
Common titles
Subsea Engineering IIISubsea Engineering 3Mid-Level Subsea EngineeringSubsea Engineer IIISubsea Engineer 3Mid-Level Subsea EngineerProficient/Professional
Where it sits & what it pays
O*NET / SOC: 17-0000 — Architecture & Engineering Occupations(inferred · under review)
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are coming — JobFrame anchors pay to the family/level structure rather than the raw title.