Machinery Engineer at ExxonMobil

About Us

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We invite you to bring your ideas to ExxonMobil to help create sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs. Learn more about our What and our Why and how we can work together.

What Role You Will Play in Our Team

Machinery Engineers contribute to all stages of asset development and operation, supporting the reliability and availability of machinery systems on the FPSOs. This includes providing machinery support to Nigeria DW assets.

The Machinery Engineer safeguards the reliability and availability of production machinery on the FPSOs, providing engineering support in Machinery, Instrumentation, and Controls Engineering disciplines.

Base: Lagos, Nigeria, with travel to offshore facilities.

Application will be accepted till 15th April.

What You Will Do

  • Understand the condition of all production machinery and improvement opportunities; perform daily reviews of equipment performance.
  • Identify potential risks, steward activities required to meet target machinery reliability and availability targets.
  • Support maintenance programs, monitor equipment performance, recommend improvements, ensure standards are met.
  • Work effectively with partners and contractors in pursuit of efforts on the projects and assets they support.
  • Support project development for growth opportunities and operations of producing assets to ensure asset machinery performance meets/exceeds targets.
  • Apply understanding of asset operations, teamwork, communication, and presentation skills to develop and deliver cost-effective technical support.
  • Document completed efforts so others can leverage their work to enable efficient future similar efforts.
  • Identify opportunities to improve work processes, including upgrades, replacements, automation, digitalization, and new technologies.
  • Interface with key stakeholders (partners, regulators, contractors, other functions) to coordinate machinery maintenance/repair programs and reliability performance targets.
  • Participate in brownfield verifications, review and update specifications, engineering surveillance (QA/QC), specialized studies/assessments, risk assessments, design reviews, and constructability reviews.
  • Apply technical and engineering knowledge and best practices to project teams in compliance with approved Company standards and specifications.
  • Prepare documents required to incorporate changes or deviations to design practices and standards.
  • Define requirements, evaluate alternatives, and recommend solutions for technical issues.
  • Provide technical support for engineering services acquisition.
  • Design equipment maintenance and inspection programs, periodically review them, and drive improvement actions.
  • Serve as a technical lead for equipment troubleshooting and recovery, including root cause analysis for complex failures.
  • Ensure clear and timely communication to asset leadership on equipment issues, exposures, and opportunities.
  • Lead initial opportunity and exposure risk screening and assessments; participate in detailed risk assessments.

About You

Skills and Qualifications

  • Minimum of Bachelor of Science/Engineering in one of the following fields: Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, Electrical, Aerospace, Biomedical, Environmental, Computer, Industrial, Structural, Materials, Marine, Automobile, Petroleum, Nuclear, Geological, or Engineering Technology.
  • NYSC Completion Certificate.
  • Knowledge of:
    • Turbo machinery
    • Machinery controls and protection systems
    • Material selection
    • Machinery monitoring, surveillance, optimization
    • Commissioning and start-up
    • Vibration, pulsation, and noise analysis
    • Machinery troubleshooting
    • Risk assessment
    • Reliability investigation
    • Various machinery classes

Preferred Qualifications/Experience

  • Minimum of 5 years of relevant oil & gas industry experience.
  • Minimum of 5 years of mechanical engineering focused on machinery.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite of software programs.
  • Behavioral expectations:
    • Strong Team Player
    • Good Communication Skills (written and verbal)
    • Good Coordination and Collaboration Skills
    • Good Technical, Problem-Solving, and Analytical Skills
    • Takes Initiative and Applies Learning

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