JAB Recruitment
Senior Rotating Equipment Enigneer
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Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer
Location: Barrow-in-Furness, 4 Days Per Week
Contract: 2 Year PAYE Contract, Accommodation & Travel Costs Covered in Day Rate
About the Role
We are recruiting for an experienced Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer to provide technical engineering support across a major oil and gas production asset. The role will focus on ensuring the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of rotating equipment, including compressors, pumps, engines, and associated systems. You will work closely with Operations, Maintenance, Inspection, and Project teams, providing engineering assurance across maintenance, reliability, asset integrity, modifications, and capital projects.
This would suit an experienced Mechanical / Rotating Equipment Engineer with a strong background supporting onshore and offshore oil and gas facilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide specialist rotating equipment engineering support across compressors, pumps, engines, and associated systems.
- Develop and optimise preventive and predictive maintenance strategies alongside Maintenance and Operations.
- Troubleshoot equipment failures and recurring reliability issues, undertaking root cause analysis and implementing corrective actions.
- Support inspection, testing, and condition monitoring programmes to improve equipment reliability and extend asset life.
- Ensure equipment and engineering activities comply with relevant API, ASME, ISO, and applicable industry standards.
- Provide technical input into capital projects, brownfield modifications, and equipment upgrades, including specifications, design reviews, and commissioning.
- Review and approve rotating equipment work scopes, job packs, and method statements.
- Manage and technically oversee specialist contractors, OEMs, and equipment vendors.
- Support turnaround, commissioning, and start-up activities.
- Participate in HAZOP, HAZID, LOPA, and other technical risk assessments.
- Support Management of Change activities, assessing the technical impact of operational and design modifications.
- Prepare, review, and maintain engineering documentation including datasheets, calculations, drawings, and operating/maintenance procedures.
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About You
We are looking for candidates with:
- Significant experience in Rotating Equipment Engineering within the oil and gas industry.
- Proven exposure to both onshore and offshore operations, maintenance, and asset integrity.
- Strong technical knowledge of rotating equipment used within oil and gas production facilities.
- Experience with compressors, pumps, engines, and associated auxiliary systems.
- Good understanding of maintenance strategy, reliability engineering, and condition monitoring.
- Experience with troubleshooting, equipment failure investigation, and root cause analysis.
- Knowledge of materials and corrosion mechanisms relevant to rotating equipment.
- Experience operating within offshore safety case and Permit to Work environments.
- Strong knowledge of relevant industry standards including API, ASME, ISO, and DNV where applicable.
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Qualifications
- Degree qualified in a relevant engineering discipline, ideally Mechanical Engineering.
- MEng preferred.
- Chartered Engineer status would be advantageous.
The Opportunity
This is an excellent opportunity for a senior rotating equipment specialist to take a key technical role supporting the ongoing reliability and integrity of established oil and gas production assets. You will have exposure across operations, maintenance, asset integrity, reliability, modifications, shutdowns, and project delivery, making this particularly suited to engineers who enjoy combining hands-on technical problem solving with engineering assurance and asset support.
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