Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer — Project Lead

NES Fircroft; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

NES Fircroft is seeking a Lead Rotating Equipment Engineer to provide technical leadership and engineering assurance for a major capital project. You will oversee rotating equipment from FEL/FEED through commissioning and handover, acting as the primary technical authority for compressors, pumps, turbines, and related systems.

You will coordinate with EPC contractors, OEMs, and multidisciplinary teams to develop specifications, review vendor documents, perform analyses, and ensure equipment

Qualifications

• 15+ years rotating equipment engineering experience in refining, petrochemical, chemical, LNG, or similar industries.
• Experience supporting major capital projects through FEL/FEED, detailed engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and startup.
• Strong knowledge of centrifugal compressors, pumps, turbines, drivers, and associated systems.
• Familiarity with API machinery standards (API 610, API 617, API 614, API 682).

Responsibilities

• Lead rotating equipment engineering scope and establish technical strategies, specs, and design requirements.
• Provide technical oversight of EPC contractors, OEMs, and equipment suppliers throughout the project lifecycle.
• Develop and review equipment specifications, datasheets, requisitions, and vendor documentation.
• Review vendor proposals, deviations, performance guarantees, rotor-dynamic analyses, vibration studies, and test documentation.
• Lead technical reviews, design assurance activities, risk reviews, and project governance gates.
• Identify long-lead equipment and provide input into procurement and scheduling.
• Provide field engineering support during installation, alignment, commissioning, and startup.
• Coordinate rotating equipment requirements with Process, Piping, Mechanical, Electrical, I&C, Civil/Structural, Reliability, Maintenance, Operations, and Construction teams.
• Ensure layouts, foundations, piping, nozzle loads, utilities, controls, and maintainability are integrated.
• Incorporate reliability and lifecycle requirements into equipment design.
• Identify and manage technical risks, RFIs, NCRs, deviations, and MOC activities.
• Ensure complete technical documentation and spare parts information for handover.
• Provide leadership and mentoring to rotating equipment engineers.

Skills

15+ years rotating equipment

Project leadership

API machinery standards knowledge

EPC/OEM collaboration

Field engineering support

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering

Job description

NES Fircroft is seeking a Lead Rotating Equipment Engineer to provide technical leadership and engineering assurance for a major capital project. You will oversee rotating equipment from FEL/FEED through commissioning and handover, acting as the primary technical authority for compressors, pumps, turbines, and related systems.

You will coordinate with EPC contractors, OEMs, and multidisciplinary teams to develop specifications, review vendor documents, perform analyses, and ensure equipment