Operability Hub Team Lead - Rotterdam (S)

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About Us:

SBM Offshore is the world’s deepwater ocean-infrastructure expert. Our work is already resulting in cleaner, more efficient energy production in offshore oil and gas. It means continuing to enable decarbonization and support the energy transition, while diversifying our unique capabilities to help more blue economy industries grow and thrive sustainably. Through our strategy of Advancing Our Core and Pioneering More and our values of Care, Integrity, Collaboration, and Ownership, we are sharing our experience for a better blue tomorrow.

Job description

Operability Hub lead for collaboration and associated interfaces with relevant Asset Integrity Pillars (Maintenance & Reliability) and all Asset Integrity Lines of Defense (LODs)

• Ensure Product Line activities are performed in alignment with AI Pillars strategies.
• Ensure SBM Product Line benefits from Fleet best practices and the forward vision of AI Pillars.
• Ensure Fleet negative or positive events/data and lessons are passed via relevant lessons learning processes to Group Treatment Owners within Maintenance/Reliability, so corrective actions are taken for all future projects.
• Maintain links to Ops regions, including via the AI Pillars, to enhance subject matter knowledge and uptake of Fleet experience.

Operability TE for SBM’s product line area

• Represent Operations Maintenance & Reliability pillar within the Group FPS Product Line and Technology, including technical framing, technology and product development studies, and FPS WIN phase.
• Be involved as Operability TE with Floating Production Solutions, Product Lines and Technology in the development of safe, operable, maintainable, and economical designs for future EPCI projects and initiatives, in compliance with contractual requirements and SBM Management System and Standards.
• Maintain links with Operability OLE’s in WIN phase and with Region 3 / Ops Readiness, together with the Lessons team where appropriate, to ensure transfer of both Fleet and Project phase lessons.
• Develop alignment with Group Functions and TA / TE’s to support success within ongoing WIN / EXECUTE projects.

Section lead within Operability for the Line Management of Operability Discipline Specialists - via the generation of a product/discipline-focused operability community (Maintenance/Reliability)

• Lead a team of Maintenance Superintendents, Electrical Supervisors, Instrument Supervisors, ICSS Superintendents and specialists.
• Effectively assign resources to FPS PL WIN projects, product, and technology developments, with the objective of designing for safety, inspection, maintenance, and operational performance, as well as providing operations technical deliverables.
• Be responsible for effective mentoring, guidance, including objectives and appraisals, training, competence assessment, coordination and quality performance of Operability Superintendents within the Maintenance & Reliability scope.
• Be responsible for the Operability Maintenance and Reliability 3 Years Plan & Roadmap to be integrated within the overall Operability roadmap.
• Ensure recovery of the Operability Maintenance & Reliability team is on target.

Main Activities within Hub area (Maintenance & Reliability):

• Be responsible for the development of Workload Study and POB assessment process.
• Be responsible for the execution of workload studies for new projects, units in operation, initiatives, and specific cases.
• Be responsible for developing, with Product Line and Technology, safe, operable, maintainable and economical designs for future EPCI projects, compliant with contractual requirements and SBM Management System and Standards.
• Provide inputs to support Proposals team with cost estimating deliverables.
• Coordinate Maintenance & Reliability Operability specialists attendance to FEEDs and project design reviews such as Hazops and model reviews.
• Ensure inclusion of operability and maintainability requirements into GTS and GEMS of the SBM Group, Projects division and Product Lines.
• Support future technological developments with Group technology as well as bringing value creation within future digital platforms.

Job requirements:

• University degree, BSc or MSc in a relevant engineering field.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in operations and maintenance of FPSOs.
• Experience in design, construction and commissioning of FPSOs or platforms, with good general knowledge of FPSO design, familiarity with design processes and good knowledge of project execution and completion activities in topside construction yards as well as shipyards, both new build and repair yards.
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements related to FPSOs.

Behaviors & inter-personal skills - Key points:

• Fluent spoken and written English.
• Available to travel internationally on a short-term basis, including on-board vessels exceptionally.
• Ability to work independently and quickly assess and prioritize situations.
• Proactive, with good interpersonal communication and supervisory skills and strong commitment to a team culture.