Job Description

Imagine your career taking you to the depths of innovation and the heights of impact. Our people enable continuous progress. Their commitment, collective expertise, and unique capabilities are the engine room behind SBM Offshore’s True. Blue. Transition. - shaping the future of energy, and beyond.

About Us:
SBM Offshore is a global leader in deepwater ocean infrastructure, delivering floating production solutions across the full asset lifecycle—from design and construction to installation and operation. Supported by a global team of more than 8,000 professionals, the Company operates a long-term, asset-backed business model that delivers high-availability assets and predictable cash flows. SBM Offshore combines engineering expertise, operational reliability, and selective innovation to support safe, efficient, and lower-carbon energy production, while extending its capabilities into new opportunities across the blue economy.

Purpose

The Senior Manufacturing Engineer – Mechanical Design ensures that mechanical designs are fully industrialized, manufacturable, and aligned with project execution, supply chain strategies, and business objectives. The role acts as a key interface between Engineering, Supply Chain, Package Management, manufacturers, and Proposal teams, contributing both to project delivery and competitive tendering activities.

In parallel, the position includes to deal with Seal Project Package, acting as the technical and industrial reference for all sealing and low‑friction items across projects

Responsibilities

Manufacturing & Industrialization

• Ensure mechanical designs are optimized for manufacturability, assembly, inspection, testing, cost, and schedule.
• Review and challenge design choices (materials, tolerances, machining, welding, coatings, assembly sequences) to reduce risk and improve industrial robustness.
• Define manufacturing assumptions, critical industrial parameters, and manufacturing philosophies from early project phases.

Support to Supply Chain & Package Management

• Provide manufacturing and industrial input to support sourcing strategies, supplier selection, and make‑or‑buy decisions.
• Support Supply Chain Package Managers during tendering, bid evaluations, technical clarifications, and supplier negotiations.
• Identify manufacturing risks and propose mitigation plans aligned with project targets.

Manufacturer Follow‑up

• Act as main interface with manufacturers to ensure compliance with technical requirements, quality standards, and schedules.
• Review and validate manufacturing documentation (manufacturing drawings, procedures, ITPs).
• Manage technical issues, deviations, concessions, and support inspections and FATs when required.

Support to Proposal & Tendering Activities

• Contribute to proposals by defining realistic manufacturing strategies, industrial assumptions, cost drivers, and risk assessments.
• Support value engineering and innovation initiatives to improve competitiveness.

The Senior Manufacturing Engineer acts as the main actor and technical owner of the Seal Project,

In this role, the engineer:

• Leads and coordinates the seal package end‑to‑end (technical definition, supplier coordination, risk management, and industrial follow‑up).
• Ensures consistency, robustness, and standardization of seals and low‑friction solutions across projects.
• Acts as the central interface between Engineering, Projects, Supply Chain, and seal manufacturers.
• Capitalizes lessons learned, drives continuous improvement, and supports both execution and proposal phases with proven, qualified solutions.

Education

• Engineer Diploma in relevant discipline

Experience

• 5 to 10 years in Oil & Gas Industry
• Strong mechanical design and manufacturing background.
• Proven experience with suppliers and external manufacturers.
• Solid interface skills across engineering, supply chain, and projects.
• Structured, pragmatic, solution‑oriented mindset with strong communication skills.

Functional Competencies

Concept developmentDetailed designSystems EngineeringPackage engineering and manufacturingSite engineeringAnalysisPlanning

GENERAL INFORMATION

SBM Offshore N.V. is a listed holding company that is headquartered in Amsterdam. It holds direct and indirect interests in other companies that collectively with SBM Offshore N.V. form the SBM Offshore Group (“the Company”). For further information, please visit our website at www.sbmoffshore.com. The companies in which SBM Offshore N.V., directly and indirectly, owns investments are separate entities.

SBM Offshore is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. SBM Offshore does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.