Global Rotating Equipment Team Lead (S)

SBM Offshore; Rotterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SBM Offshore is seeking a Rotating Equipment Team Lead in Rotterdam to ensure reliability and efficiency of rotating machinery across the fleet and new builds. You will oversee operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of compressors, turbines, pumps, and related equipment, shaping monitoring and maintenance scopes for ongoing performance.

You will drive governance, define upgrade strategies, and provide technical guidance to operations, ensuring safety, regulatory compliance, and alignment

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering is required.
• Experience with failure analysis and root cause investigation.
• Proven ability to lead and motivate a team.

Responsibilities

• Drive continuous improvement of rotating equipment design and operation best practices across existing fleet and new builds.
• Governance processes, tools and strategies to drive performance.
• Assurance processes to sustain performance and control.
• Conduct failure analysis and troubleshooting to diagnose and resolve issues.
• Contribute to maintenance programs and schedules for all rotating equipment.
• Collaborate with engineers and departments to optimize performance and efficiency.
• Ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental regulations.
• Define strategies for equipment upgrades, replacements, and new installations.
• Provide technical support to operations and maintenance teams.
• Stay updated on advancements in rotating equipment technology and best practices.

Skills

Rotating equipment

Vibration analysis

RCM

Predictive maintenance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering

Certification in vibration analysis

Tools

SAP

Job description

Imagine your career taking you to the depths of innovation and the heights of impact. Our people enable continuous progress. Their commitment, collective expertise, and unique capabilities are the engine room behind SBM Offshore’s True. Blue. Transition. - shaping the future of energy, and beyond.
About Us:
SBM Offshore is a global leader in deepwater ocean infrastructure, delivering floating production solutions across the full asset lifecycle—from design and construction to installation and operation. Supported by a global team of more than 8,000 professionals, the Company operates a long-term, asset-backed business model that delivers high-availability assets and predictable cash flows. SBM Offshore combines engineering expertise, operational reliability, and selective innovation to support safe, efficient, and lower-carbon energy production, while extending its capabilities into new opportunities across the blue economy.

Purpose

• As Rotating Equipment Team Lead you are responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and efficiency of rotating equipment within the company’s operations.
• Your role involve the operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of rotating machinery, including compressors, turbines, pumps, and other related equipment. You work closely with other departments to ensure optimal performance and compliance with safety and regulatory standards.
• Your role is key in defining the Rotating Equipment strategies for what concerns their monitoring, design improvement and operations and maintenance scopes definition.

Responsibilities

• You drive continuous improvement of Rotating Equipment design and operation best practices for the existing fleet and new builds to make the fleet safer, more reliable and minimize downtimes.
• You are responsible for governance processes, tools and strategies to drive performance.
• You are responsible of assurance processes to sustain performance and always be in control.
• You conduct failure analysis and troubleshooting to diagnose and promptly resolve equipment issues.
• You contribute to the definition of maintenance programs and schedules for all rotating equipment.
• You collaborate with other engineers and departments to optimize equipment performance and process efficiency.
• You ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental regulations and policies.
• You participate in the definition of strategies for execution of equipment upgrades, replacements, and new installations.
• You provide technical support and guidance to operations and maintenance teams.
• You stay updated on the latest advancements in rotating equipment technology and best practices in the industry.
• You support the process of new equipment and new technologies qualification to ensure their suitability for Operations and Maintenance.
• You support the Supply Chain department in the definition of the technical scope for major equipment maintenance and support contract.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field is required.
• Certification in vibration analysis or other relevant disciplines

Experience

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in the maintenance and management of rotating equipment in the Oil & Gas industry.
• Strong knowledge of rotating machinery, including compressors, turbines, and pumps.
• Experience with failure analysis and root cause investigation techniques.
• Proven ability to lead and motivate a team.
• Familiarity with industry standards and regulations related to rotating equipment.
• Proficiency in using diagnostic tools and software for equipment analysis.
• Experience with reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) practices.
• Knowledge of predictive maintenance technologies and practices.
• Familiarity with SAP or other enterprise asset management systems.

Functional Competencies

• Mechanical Rotating Equipment - Gas Turbine
• Mechanical Rotating Equipment - Pumps
• Value Creation
• Process Analysis and Design
• Systems Engineering
• Learning from events
• Reliability, operability and safety
• Project control
• Mechanical Rotating Equipment - Gas Compressor
• Analysis

GENERAL INFORMATION

SBM Offshore N.V. is a listed holding company that is headquartered in Amsterdam. It holds direct and indirect interests in other companies that collectively with SBM Offshore N.V. form the SBM Offshore Group (“the Company”). For further information, please visit our website at www.sbmoffshore.com. The companies in which SBM Offshore N.V., directly and indirectly, owns investments are separate entities.

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