Ex Principal Engineer

**Req Id**:16927**Job Family**:Construction**Location**:Monaco, MC- 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 the world’s deepwater ocean-infrastructure expert. Our work is already resulting in cleaner, more efficient energy production. True. Blue. Transition. is our promise to enable that into the future while at the same time using our expertise to support new and existing markets in the blue economy. It starts with Advancing our Core: continuing to advance the decarbonization of traditional energy production. While Pioneering More: helping to enable the energy transition and using our unique capabilities in ocean infrastructure to support more industries to grow sustainably. Sharing our experience for a better blue tomorrow.**ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT**
The Group Technical Assurance Department has multiple responsibilities as follows:
- Develop and maintain SBM technical know-how through the issue of the Group Technical Standards, Group Technical Guidelines and Group Performance Standards
- Develop and maintain Working Processes and Working Instructions through our GEMS related to Hazardous Area equipment.
- Execute Life Cycle Technical Assurance activities for SBMs projects at large (Greenfield, Brownfield and Development)
- Provide escalated technical support on specific expertise and sensitive technical issues (from feasibility to decommissioning including Incident Investigations)
- Support the tendering activities by framing the proposals technical content (early, high level assessment of bid package).
- Support the development of SBM standard products whenever necessary.

**THE ROLE**
- You act as a third party independent from project execution.
- You act as Group Principal Engineer from your discipline and contribute to above activities, interacting with internal and external Stakeholders, keeping an eye on the new technology developed by vendors, promoting best practices and technical solutions.
- You participate to the development of the Technical Assurance plan for SBM’s Projects and execute corresponding design verification activities.
- You attend key meetings such as vendor Kick off Meeting, factory acceptance Tests, commissioning and fleet audits both from Monaco and around the world as required and during the full Life Cycle of our products (FPSO).
- You cooperate with Operation Technical Authorities to collect and analyze fleet data including lessons learned for ex equipment.
- You support the Ex authorized Person: by reviewing dossier prepared by functions, in terms of Ex certification as per ISO 80079-34. (Ex quality system, Swivels, MPFs, specific products).
- You participate in the qualification of vendors and subcontractors (VQR process), provide technical support to category manager.
- You attend international event to defend Company interest

**JOB REQUIREMENTS**
- Engineering Degree or equivalent
- You typically have at least 10 years of experience in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical equipment or R&D.
- You have experience in system/equipment certification
- Has a solid track-record of expertise and understands the full life cycle of a unit.

**Behaviors & inter-personal skills - Key points**
- Strong conceptual skills: Quickly and accurately translate client requirements into feasible and presentable solutions.
- High performing team player: Ask and give support to/from your team members to ensure the final result of the team effort is balanced in its high conceptual maturity and quality.
- Excellent Communicator. Is able to deliver clear messages, present results in meetings with clients and adapt presentation style to the situation.
- Result orientated achiever: Gets satisfaction by achieving objectives with the team and understands that in the end only the result counts.
- Autonomous: Understands the SBM company and business context and will operate - as an interactive member of the team - autonomously and self-motivated, guided by business principles and team objectives.
- Arguments appropriately to convince others to take action; Negotiates skillfully; Finds and proposes alternatives that satisfy the needs of stakeholders
- Be able to build and maintain good contact with team under pressure during critical operation phase.

**GENERAL INFORMATION**- 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.