Mechanical Rotating Engineer

BH-267024
  • Competitive
  • Scotland Scotland Aberdeen
  • Contract
  • Oil & Gas
Mechanical Rotating Engineer
Job Purpose:
To provide rotating equipment engineering support and assurance services to operated assets to ensure safe and efficient production.

Responsibilities
• Ensuring that all activities are carried out in a safe manner complying with all regulatory requirements, legislation and HSES Procedures • Responsible for monitoring equipment/system performance initiating and ensuring corrective actions.
• Responsible for discipline engineering and maintenance support to UK operations

Areas of Accountability, Responsibility and Competence:
• Provide frontline engineering support to our operated assets to ensure safe (personnel safety and MAH prevention), reliable and efficient operation of rotating equipment.
• Ensure Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality procedures are followed and that a high standard of safety is achieved in all associated workscopes
• Deliver facility maintenance plans/programs to ensure cost effective operation and asset integrity throughout facility lifetime.
• Participation in and where required delivery of emissions reduction actions plans for rotating equipment • Responsible for continuously challenging technical solutions, engineering performance and cost of modification projects.
• Identify and raise Technical Queries where engineering support is required to resolve more complex technical issues.
• Work preparation in support of preventive maintenance program execution, including detailed work packages, materiel delivery and specialist vendor support.
• Responsible for rotating equipment performance including spare part management and warranty follow up.
• Provide plans to manage obsolete rotating equipment so that it does not impact safety or business performance.
Utilise condition monitoring and reliability tools to monitor equipment health and performance, troubleshoot and diagnose issues and improve reliability of rotating equipment systems.
• Leads investigation teams to solve recurring rotating equipment failures. Provides leadership and decision-making skills during turnarounds and unplanned equipment outages regarding recovery solutions.
• Adhere to contract management processes and ensure vendor delivery is robustly managed for any assigned contracts.
Provides technical expertise and support to project development.
• Provide input and support to long term facility modification & maintenance plans/programs to ensure cost effective operation and asset integrity throughout facility lifetime.
• Responsible to provide budget input/scope for maintenance and modifications.
• Develops cost justification for reliability improvement projects.
• Demonstrate appreciation of commercial and technical risks, managing these appropriately within own work and highlighting any significant issues to relevant line manager • Influences and collaborates with the asset leadership teams and all other relevant stakeholders • Remain up to date with the latest technical developments in your field of expertise

Critical Skills, Qualifications, Experience, etc.:
• Educated to engineering degree level or satisfactory equivalent e.g. HND/HNC plus preferable qualifications/experience and/or vocational certificates.
• Chartered Engineer Status and Corporate Member of a professional body preferred.
• Understanding of processes required to meet HSE objectives.
Fully conversant with UK regulatory environment
• Extensive experience with industrial and aero-derivative gas turbines, centrifugal compressors, centrifugal pumps, gearboxes, shaft/coupling systems, Dry gas seals, and associated package equipment and controls and interfacing systems within the oil and gas or Petro-chemical industry.
Specific knowledge Solar Mars/Taurus, Siemens SGT-A05, SGT-200 packages preferred.
• Experience with diesel engines and reciprocating pumps preferred.
• Self-driven. Strong personal leadership and drive toward teamwork. Ability to perform effectively within a strong peer group and to drive toward optimal business solutions.
• Good communicating, influencing, negotiating and networking skills. Builds excellent relationships..
• Awareness of and experience in working to UK safety case and regulations.

Site:   Aberdeen
Sub-Department:   Late Life Operations
Location:   Upper Denburn


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