Mechanical Engineer

YINSON RENEWABLES AS; Oslo; On-site; NOK 850,000 - 1,150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Pension

Lunch at office

Job summary

Yinson Production in Oslo seeks a Mechanical Engineer to assess, design and optimize mechanical systems across eight operated FPSOs. You will perform mechanical analysis, equipment assessments, and support modifications, condition monitoring and failure investigations on units in service.

Join the Asset Lifecycle Management team reporting to the Head of Global Technical Support. Travel offshore and to shipyards will be required as needed to collect data, liaise with clients and vendors, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent is required.
• Professional English, written and spoken.
• Willingness to undertake international travel, including offshore.
• Self-driven and independent working ability.
• Experience with mechanical systems and rotating equipment is valued.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to Operations, Business Development and Projects.
• Develop mechanical analysis and condition monitoring.
• Contribute to digitalisation strategies including digital twins.
• Support modification works and project delivery.
• Develop Yinson standards, philosophies and specifications.
• Ensure safety, reliability and operability of mechanical systems.
• Interact with clients and manage vendors as required.
• Travel for data collection, site surveys and inspections as needed.

Skills

Professional English

Willingness for international travel

Self-driven

Independent working

Rotating equipment knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering

Master's degree in mechanical engineering

Job description

Yinson Production owns and operates eight floating production units, and we are now seeking a Mechanical Engineer in Oslo.

The position involves assessing, recommending and approving design across the fleet. The work will include mechanical analysis and equipment assessment on new projects, engineering and delivery of modifications, and condition monitoring and failure investigation on units in service.

About the position

Your task is to ensure that the fleet's mechanical systems and rotating equipment are safe, reliable and optimized.

You will join the Asset Lifecycle Management department in Oslo and report to the Head of Global Technical Support, who holds discipline authority and allocates work within the team. The fleet consists of eight units in operation, and the daily work comprises modification work, tenders and early-phase studies, including projects in execution.

We are a dedicated group holding overall technical responsibility for the fleet. You get responsibility for own judgements, and the path from a technical recommendation to a decision is short.

Core Responsibilities

• Technical support to Operations, Business Development, Projects
• Development of mechanical analysis and condition monitoring
• Contribute and support digitalisation strategies including digital twin
• Support/follow up modification works and delivery
• Development of Yinson standards, philosophies and specifications
• Technical safety, reliability and operability
• Vendor and package management, including rotating equipment
• Site survey/inspection onboard Yinson facilities as required to collect data and propose improvement of Mechanical Systems
• Promotion of best practice and implementation of experience feedback

Duties

• Participate in the Mechanical discipline's ongoing work as prioritised and support other disciplines within the department
• Interact with clients and manage vendors as required
• Provide technical reporting as required
• Maintain current professional knowledge by tracking developments in methodology, standards and technology, and by absorbing practice from clients, vendors and partners
• Apply a troubleshooting and problem-solving approach across lifecycle phases, including support to other disciplines where needed
• Interact effectively with other departments in the company
• Travel as required, including liaising with other Yinson offices, inspections at shipyards, candidate vessels, and operating production units offshore and onshore

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or an equivalent discipline
• Background from mechanical engineering roles working in an industrial or energy environment, or from EPC/OEM/Operator side with core set of engineering competence accordingly
• Personal ownership of mechanical studies from third parties or own assessments, related to process systems/equipment
• Professional English, written and spoken
• Willingness and ability to undertake international travel, including offshore
• Self-driven and independent working ability

Beneficial:

• Master's degree in mechanical engineering or an equivalent discipline
• Experience from FPSO, offshore, subsea or marine conversion projects or operations
• Familiar with classification society requirements (DNV, ABS, BV, Lloyd's Register) and associated standards
• Experiences from any of following processes like water handling (Cooling medium, seawater lift, heating medium), gas processing, steam processing, oil processing, power generation and steam generation
• Operations Technical Support
• Multi-disciplinary Technical Coordination
• Reliability, operability and technical safety

Beneficial

• Equipment Failure Analysis & RCA
• Rotating Equipment & Condition Monitoring

We Offer

• Work across the full lifecycle with mechanical and rotating equipment, for units in production and projects
• Broad discipline responsibility and short decision paths in a lean organisation
• An international technical environment in Oslo with daily contact across our global organisation
• Participation in our digitalisation work connecting real-time data, simulation and equipment information across the fleet
• Terms in line with the wider oil and gas industry: salary benchmarked against Tekna's salary statistics, bonus scheme, health insurance and a good pension arrangement
• A very good lunch arrangement at the office