What's The Role
The Rotating Equipment Engineer provides technical assurance and expertise in the lifecycle management of rotating equipment and turbomachinery, ensuring high reliability, availability, and compliance with HSE and production targets.
The role supports maintenance programs, condition monitoring, troubleshooting, failure analysis, and plant improvement initiatives within approved budgets and resources. Additionally, the role contributes to leadership, capability development, and continuous improvement to support the site's business objectives and Best‑in‑Class performance.
What You'll Be Doing
- Maintain effective cross-department interfaces to ensure alignment, quality assurance, and adequate resourcing to meet targets.
- Execute rotating equipment and turbo‑machinery assurance activities in full compliance with HSSE standards.
- Ensure compliance with all government regulations, company standards, procedures, and processes.
- Provide technical assurance and expert support to asset owners on rotating equipment and turbo‑machinery issues, including design, plant changes, and turnarounds, with timely risk mitigation recommendations.
- Lead and deliver engineering design, specifications, calculations, and technical documentation for rotating equipment projects and modifications, including vendor evaluation and site support.
- Assure preventive and corrective maintenance programs in line with Asset Management System requirements, with focus on HEMP, Safety Critical Activities, and equipment reliability.
- Review equipment performance against design limits and operating history, recommending improvements to optimize integrity, availability, and reliability.
- Develop mid‑ to long‑term rotating equipment reliability strategies, including obsolescence management, maintenance optimization, and business continuity planning.
- Lead and participate in RCM studies, spare parts planning, and Min‑Max optimization for rotating equipment and turbo‑machinery.
- Assure execution of major overhauls, inspections, defect elimination, and RCA/Bad Actor management to meet plant availability and production targets.
- Drive continuous improvement through audits, procedures, standards, and adoption of new technologies, including coaching and competency development.
- Support contracting strategies, contractor performance management, and knowledge management; provide leadership support and undertake special assignments as required.
What You Bring
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience, including at least 3 years in the oil and gas industry.
- Proven experience in rotating equipment maintenance and management, including pumps, compressors, electric motors, gearboxes, and belt drives.
- Demonstrated capability in equipment performance monitoring, troubleshooting, root cause analysis / causal learning, performance improvement, and project delivery.
- Experience in developing and executing long‑term reliability and availability improvement strategies for rotating equipment.
- Strong coaching, collaboration, and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
- Demonstrated leadership behaviours, with a strong focus on coaching and capability development.
