Principal Mechanical Static Engineer - Deepwater Projects at Shell Petroleum Development Company

Job ID: 125197BR_EN
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Experience level: Experienced Professionals

Purpose

• To provide leadership and specialist expertise on static and rotating equipment engineering, with TA2 accountabilities, for project and assets to achieve compliance to Process Safety, HSSE and Quality standards.
• To Supervise and coach assigned Mechanical Engineering SGP and SATP engineers, Industrial Trainees and Interns to attain expected levels of competence.
• To Assist the Regional Discipline Lead - Mechanical Engineering, in managing the health of the mechanical engineering skill pool and deliver the mechanical engineering improvement plan target.

Accountabilities
Includes, but not limited to the following:

• Lead Mechanical Engineer responsible for providing mechanical engineering leadership, expertise and assurance services for the Dry systems on Bonga FPSO and various Tie-Back and brownfield projects.
• Create demonstrable value for customers by understanding their drivers and critical success factors.
• Provide effective interfaces and relationships within/between disciplines, and peers in other P & T teams.
• Execute, with assigned resources, technical work for FEED and Detailed Designs (designs, specifications, drawings, etc.) and Operations Support within designated CTR scopes.
• Ensure own discipline engineering and design work successfully delivered and appropriate reviews conducted.
• Carry out appropriate discipline and inter discipline checks and reviews of engineering and design work.
• Contribute to the development of execution contracting strategies that compliment designs, construction methods and operating methods.
• Drive best practices implementation of static and rotating equipment strategies on the Asset.
• Remain engaged in design issues and decisions throughout construction, commissioning and start-up.
• Capture/apply internal and external learning, including HSE improvements.
• Deliver continuously improving performance, benchmarked as top tier in the industry.
• Ensure the quality of technical work and the technical integrity, constructability, functionality, safe operation and reliability of designs.
• Contribute to excellent HSE performance throughout the engineering phase of the project life cycle
• Lead or participate in relationships with various industry groups and external service providers.
• Participatory review of engineering standards and procedures.
• Identify new technologies for use in the mechanical engineering discipline and contribute to deployment in the business.
• Contributory participation in mechanical engineering discipline networks.
• Provide support to the Head, Mechanical Engineering to establish a qualitative delivery capacity for mechanical engineering scopes in projects.
• Champion application of Requirement Management and System Engineering initiatives for project specifications and contractors' activities on static and rotating equipment.

Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent) with 15 years post graduate experience in engineering with at least 10 years working as a mechanical static engineer in project delivery environment (including familiarity with mechanical static and Rotating Equipment engineering tools); Skilled in the use of mechanical simulation tools e.g., CAESAR II, PV Elite, HTRI, ANSYS, etc
• COREN Registered or in the Registration Process. (Not Negotiable)
• IMechE Registered or in the Registration Process (Non-Commencement of Registration may be waved, but will be required going forward)
• Previous experience leading mechanical engineering team in detailed design and execution of Mega Projects
• Demonstrable experience in interfacing with other engineering disciplines including Process and Structural
• Skilled in the use of industry codes and standards
• Knowledge of construction and integration issues in Deepwater development
• Experience with or understanding of Operations and Maintenance work process is an advantage.
• Experienced in Field/facility engineering and technical safety/risk engineering.
• Good interpersonal and negotiating skills, know-how of planning, economics and auditing.
• Strong conceptual, innovative, and systems thinking ability
• Team player, self-motivated, coaching skills, persistence, with ability to think outside- the- box.
• Visibly demonstrate personal and company HSE commitment.
• Must have ability to work with and influence multi-discipline and multi-cultural teams.
• Demonstrated capability to proactively implement plans and follow through with sustained execution, meeting project milestones.
• Familiar with project development challenges in Nigeria or in other regions with similar challenges.