Rotating Equipment Start-up Engineer

pImagine 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.brstrongAbout Us:br/strongSBM 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.brstrongPurposebrbr/strongulliThe Operation Readiness Start‑Up (ORSU) Specialist for Rotating Equipment is responsible for ensuring that all rotating machinery—such as centrifugal and reciprocating compressors, API pumps, gas turbines, diesel generators, fans, and blowers—are fully prepared, validated, and safely transitioned from construction to commissioning and start-up. The role ensures mechanical and control integrity, system readiness, and compliance with API, OEM, and asset integrity standards throughout project execution. /liliYou will work as part of the Operation Readiness Start Up team, while acting as the “Internal Client” for technical acceptance of the rotating scope during handover from Projects.brbr/li /ulstrongResponsibilitiesbrbr/strongulliFollow-up, the mechanical completion, commissioning and start-up execution for all rotating packages, with technical ownership of compressor control systems (antisurge, load sharing, recycle logic, surge maps, trips permissives, sequence logic, vibration protection). /liliReview and validate control narratives, cause and effect, trip matrices, startup/shutdown sequences, machine protection, and dynamic tuning during first gas/first oil. /liliCoordinate with ICSS, Instrumentation, Electrical, Process and Vendors to ensure smooth start up across all integrated systems - including GTGs, VRUs, Gas Compression, Seawater Injection, Chemical Injection systems and or any other rotating equipment / systems on the FPSO. /liliTroubleshoot and resolve dynamic start up issues such as surge events, trip cascades, control instability, mechanical failures and vendor software inconsistencies. /liliSupport the Start-Up Manager in the acceptance of systems, ensuring completion checklists, test reports, punch-list closure, full execution of OTPs and readiness for hydrocarbon introduction. /liliWork with Start-Up Process Engineer to capture RCAs, and ensure lessons learned, start-up findings and vendor insights are documented and fed back into SBM management system. /liliAct as the Internal Client for the rotating equipment scope, ensuring that project deliverables meet SBM Operations requirements before acceptance. /liliCollaborating with internal stakeholders (SBM engineering, commissioning and package managers) and vendors. /liliEnsure rotating equipment design aligns with Operations requirements throughout design, construction, commissioning and start up. /liliCoordination with Operations OTA to ensure alignment operational needs and Operability to ensure the rotating lessons learn from recent starts ups is directly transferred to the future projects. /liliSupport validation and close-out of SBM Operations Comments Registers / Lists of Concerns concerning rotating equipment. /liliWitness FATs at vendor facilities to verify equipment performance and compliance with design and contractual requirements.brbr/li /ulstrongEducationbrbr/strongulliBSc/MSc in Mechanical Engineering (or Control/Mechatronics with rotating focus).brbr/li /ulstrongExperiencebrbr/strongulli10 years of experience with rotating equipment, of which at least 5 with direct experience with compressor commissioning controls in OG. /liliStrong exposure to EPC(I) projects, FAT participation, and start-up of complex FPSO or gas plant systems. /liliExperience interfacing with global OEMs, Category Managers and multi-disciplinary engineering teams.brbr/li /ulstrongFunctional Competenciesbr/strongEngineering design and calculation toolsbrDetailed designbrSystems EngineeringbrInspection, testing, commissioning and monitoringbrPackage engineering and manufacturingbrReliability, operability and safetybrMechanical Rotating EquipmentbrAnalysisbrstrongGENERAL INFORMATIONbr/strongSBM 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 The companies in which SBM Offshore N.V., directly and indirectly, owns investments are separate entities.brSBM 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. /p #J-18808-Ljbffr