Prinicipal Mechanical Engineer

**Aibel is a leading service company within the oil, gas and offshore wind industries. We provide our customers with optimal and innovative solutions within engineering, construction, modifications and maintenance throughout a project’s entire life cycle. Aibel's 4000 skilled employees are located close to our customers at the company’s offices in Norway and South East Asia. In addition, we operate two modern yards in Haugesund and in Thailand, with complete prefabrication and construction capabilities.**

**Job responsibilities**:
PROJECT WORK
- Execute and co-ordinate all activities under the job holder’s responsibility
- Perform functions of a Discipline Lead Engineer, including:

- Defining project scope, schedule and resources
- Establish discipline deliverables, interface definition and coordination
- Define and perform monitoring, control and reporting of progress
- Attend meetings and provide technical support
- Lead personnel assigned to support the job holder (5 to 10 persons or more)
- Perform **Package Engineering**, including:

- Preparation of technical documentation (data sheets, requisitions, bid evaluation, technical reports, equipment criticality rating, etc.) towards procurement of mechanical equipment and packages from suppliers and vendors
- Review of supplier engineering documentation while interfacing with other disciplines/departments to assure engineering integration of equipment/packages overseen by Job Holder in a timely manner
- Minimize waivers, or mitigate impact from waivers on schedule and cost
- Conduct surveillance of vendor activities e.g., kick-off meetings, progress monitoring and expediting, equipment testing.
- Mechanical Completion: take part in site supervision of construction, installation, testing, commissioning, and handover activities
- Preparation, modification and review of documents and/or drawings as per discipline deliverable list
- Participate in studies and reviews where required as discipline lead or as mechanical package engineer e.g., HAZOP, Model Reviews.
- Encourage to and seek improvements to the project costs and schedule at all times
- Support the project organization in meeting project objectives quality / costs / schedule / safety) along with other team members
- Travel overseas on short notice / perform overtime work as needed

DISCIPLINE/POSITIONAL
- Ensure compliance to QHSE requirements (maintain a positive and safe work environment), and support improvements in QHSE
- Understand and comply with internal control procedures, and support improvements in discipline work processes and procedures
- Supervise and lead less experienced engineers; identify and develop talent within the discipline, preparing them for greater responsibilities

**Work experience requirements**:

- 15years experience in Static Equipment/Packages in the oil, gas, or petrochemical (OGP) industry, preferably with bulk of that experience in the **Offshore**OGP sector.
- Has experience in **pressure vessel detailed design**, including mechanical design via spreadsheet or software such as PVElite, BJac, etc., and vessel fabrication drawing preparation; experience in **Thermal Design** (on HTRI or HTFS), with ability to dictate exchanger design to manufacturers, will be an advantage
- Has **Package Engineering** experience with typical offshore mechanical/multi-disciplinary packages such as separators, scrubbers, various types of heat exchangers, standard air compressor package, R.O. water makers, flare tips, pedestal cranes, chemical injection, hydrocyclone packages, TEG package, etc.
- Experience in one or more of the following would be an advantage:

- Process design knowledge of static packages and their internals e.g., Separators, Scrubbers, Hydrocyclone packages
- Relevant experience with a pressure vessel shop or company that supplies static equipment or skid package equipment
- Experience working with broad range of regulatory standards e.g., NCS, UKCS, Australian, Brazilian.
- Highly conversant with oil & gas industry standards such as API, ISO, NORSOK, etc.

**Qualifications**:

- Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent

**Other skills**:

- Good oral and written communication skills in English
- Effective organizational skills
- Strong leadership skills, good communicator, dependable and resourceful
- High competency levels for collaborative work, in a manner that increases the efforts of others, in a multi-cultural environment

**Other information**:
Work location: Singapore
Application deadline: 19 October 2025