Bulk Engineer

Req Id:  22278
Job Family:  Bulk Management
Location: 

Rotterdam Office, NL

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Description: 

Imagine your career taking you to the depths of innovation and the heights of impact.  Our people enable continuous progress. Their commitment, collective expertise, and unique capabilities are the engine room behind SBM Offshore’s True. Blue. Transition. - shaping the future of energy, and beyond.

About Us:
SBM Offshore is a global leader in deepwater ocean infrastructure, delivering floating production solutions across the full asset lifecycle—from design and construction to installation and operation. Supported by a global team of more than 8,000 professionals, the Company operates a long-term, asset-backed business model that delivers high-availability assets and predictable cash flows. SBM Offshore combines engineering expertise, operational reliability, and selective innovation to support safe, efficient, and lower-carbon energy production, while extending its capabilities into new opportunities across the blue economy.

Purpose

  • The Bulk Engineer is a hands-on executor responsible for the processing, verification, and reporting of project material bulk data. Supporting the Bulk Manager, this role ensures consistency across MTOs, manages material records in relevant systems, and performs data analysis to support decision-making. The Bulk Engineer focuses on timely execution, accurate data maintenance, and efficient coordination across functions.

Responsibilities

· Interface with Engineering on Material Take Offs (MTOs), ensuring timely release aligned with project schedule.
· Perform hands-on verification of MTO inputs and resolve discrepancies.
· Apply wastage matrix to MTOs and validate derived quantities.
· Identify needs for top-up and top-down MTOs and generate procurement MTOs.
· Issue MTOs to Supply Chain and coordinate material release and delivery plans with hubs and logistics.
· Generate multi-system data analysis to support project decision-making.
· Issue MTOs to the Yard and validate material allocation responsibilities across stakeholders (SBM, 3rd party, Yard).
· Support Construction with timely data and material tracking.
· Maintain live trackers of bulk material usage, delivery, availability, and surplus.
· Create, maintain, and discuss Workfront Analyses and Bulk Reports with stakeholders.
· Support preparation of project reporting and flag overdue or at-risk bulk items for early resolution.
· Provide regular updates to the Bulk Manager.
· Maintain and operate Bulk databases, ensuring data integrity and compliance with the Company’s Management of Change process.
· Conduct bulk-related gap analyses across disciplines and trigger corrective actions.
· Act as data integrator between Engineering, Supply Chain, and Construction for bulk-related scope.
· Identify and support reuse of surplus materials and contribute to lessons learned and continuous improvement initiatives.
· Prepare the detailed Bulk Close-Out Report at project completion.

Education

  • Bachelor degree in a relevant engineering discipline or a cost engineering study

Experience

  • At least 3 year experience in a material control / cost engineer / Project Planning / Procurement position / Data analysis
  • Experience in an EPC project and experience in data handling and databases is a pre,
  • Excellent MS Excel knowledge. MS Access, SQL, Visual Basic, Power BI is a plus
  • English is a mandatory.

Functional Competencies

Data collection and entry
Analytics and reporting
Project Cost Management
Purchasing Tools and Processes
Project data analysis
Planning
Data Management
Project control

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

 

SBM Offshore N.V. is a listed holding company that is headquartered in Amsterdam. It holds direct and indirect interests in other companies that collectively with SBM Offshore N.V. form the SBM Offshore Group (“the Company”). For further information, please visit our website at www.sbmoffshore.com. The companies in which SBM Offshore N.V., directly and indirectly, owns investments are separate entities.

SBM Offshore is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. SBM Offshore does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.  All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.