Facility Engineer

Req Id:  22417
Job Family:  Operations and Technical Management
Location: 

Santos, BR, 11035-260 Rio de Janeiro, BR, 20021-290

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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

  • As a Facility Engineer, you are responsible for monitoring and ensuring the production of the units, with a focus on the monitoring of all topside equipment. This role also includes troubleshooting and conducting incident analysis for any issues that arise in the units. Additionally, you ensure that all processes and facilities adhere to company and industry standards, safety regulations, and environmental guidelines, while optimizing performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure that the unit operates within design conditions, maintaining optimal performance and safety.
  • Ensure all facilities and processes adhere to industry safety standards, environmental regulations, and company policies. Conduct regular safety audits, hazard assessments, and risk analyses, implementing corrective actions as needed to mitigate risks.
  • Conduct and Participate actively in investigations of incidents related to production loss and process safety, ensuring thorough analysis and follow-up actions.
  • Oversee the day-to-day operation of production facilities, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.
  • Implement and maintain best practices in process management, maintenance, and operational procedures to minimize downtime and reduce operational costs.
  • Provide technical support to offshore operations, including process monitoring using tools like PI, SEEQ, and daily reports.
  • Lead and coordinate facility-related projects from conceptualization to execution, ensuring timely delivery within budget.
  • Assist in planning, organizing, and coordinating planned interventions in process equipment such as CO2 membranes, SRP membranes, mol sieves, and guard filters.
  • Provide technical recommendations to offshore teams for process optimization, improvements, and best practices.
  • Conduct technical meetings with offshore teams to address process deviations and implement coordinated actions.
  • Participate in and support risk assessments (HAZOP, HAZID, ORA, TRA, SIL) and review action plans.
  • Execute technical internal audits offshore and support audits such as SGSO, ANP, CONAMA, and PAG.
  • Share lessons learned and disseminate technical best practices across the organization.
  • Support offshore teams in ramp-up/down planning and equipment preservation for shutdowns (SD).
  • Define and execute a 3-Year Plan (3YP) related to preventive facilities scope, supporting the P &F Lead and Technical Specialists in the 3YP budget exercise.

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline.

Experience

  • Chemical industry acting as process or production engineer.
  • Project business focussed in process engineering
  • Oil and gas experience (desired)
  • Experience in industry.

Functional Competencies

Process - Process System Engineering
Integrity and Reliability - Remote Surveillance and Monitoring
Learning from events
Reliability, operability and safety
Incident Management
Process - Process equipment and internals design
Troubleshooting
ICSS - Process Control
Analysis
Planning

 

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.