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Structural Hull Principal Engineer

Posted 4 Nov 2025
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Work experience
25 to 40 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)
Deadline
29 November 2025

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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. True. Blue. Transition. is our promise. 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.

Purpose

  • The Principal Engineer's purpose is to deliver projects that enhance operational efficiency, safety, and sustainability, contributing to the organization's strategic objectives and long-term success.

Responsibilities

  • Utilize your technical expertise to develop safe and quality solutions in support of projects and discipline requirements without guidance.
  • Ensure successful resolution of complex technical issues to meet projects and discipline deliverables.
  • Engage with peers across Regional Centers to promote knowledge sharing and act as a consultant and mentor to less experienced engineers within the discipline to ensure knowledge transfer, product memory, and application of best practices.
  • Work in conjunction with Discipline Manager, Discipline Leads and engineering staff to seek continuous improvement in both quality and efficiency of the work.
  • Continuously improve and promote your technical knowledge and capabilities by staying abreast of the latest industry developments, including internal technology readiness, and ensuring that lessons learnt are effectively captured from the fleet, projects, and technology.
  • May act as Discipline Lead for assigned scope of work and/or may be designated as a Technical Expert (TE) and/or Engineering Method Authority.

Experience

  • More than 25 years experience in Oil & Gas Industry

Functional Competencies

  • Advanced computation methods - Finite Element Calculation
  • Engineering design and calculation tools
  • FPSO Hull
  • Concept development
  • Structural Hull
  • Detailed design
  • Reliability, operability and safety
  • Sub-contracting
  • Analysis
  • Planning

At SBM Offshore, our people have unrivaled experience and understanding of the needs of the global offshore energy industry. Our product development is driven by evolving market demand.
SBM Offshore provides floating production solutions to the offshore energy industry, over the full product life-cycle. The Company is market leading in leased floating production systems with multiple units currently in operation and…


At SBM Offshore, our people have unrivaled experience and understanding of the needs of the global offshore energy industry. Our product development is driven by evolving market demand.

SBM Offshore provides floating production solutions to the offshore energy industry, over the full product life-cycle. The Company is market leading in leased floating production systems with multiple units currently in operation and has unrivalled operational experience in this field. The Company’s main activities are the design, supply, installation, operation and the life extension of Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessels. These are either owned and operated by SBM Offshore and leased to its clients or supplied on a turnkey sale basis.

Group companies employ approximately 7,000 people worldwide. Full time company employees totaling 4,900 are spread over five regional centers, eleven operational shore bases and the offshore fleet of vessels. A further 2,100 are working for the joint ventures with several construction yards.

The Group is committed to conducting business in a sustainable way over the long-term by developing close relationships with local people, communities and businesses in host countries, and by safeguarding the natural environment.

It is our goal and driving ambition to be the trusted partner of choice, delivering reliable, complete floating production solutions that create value for SBM Offshore’s clients, by sustainably and passionately leveraging the Company’s technology and operating experience.

Engineering
Schiedam
7,000 employees