What’s the role

As a Reliability Rotating Engineer, you will be responsible for preparing maintenance strategies, conducting assessments, troubleshooting, coordinating with stakeholders, and ensuring high equipment reliability and plant availability to support Shell Chennai’s business objectives. Your role will involve engaging with site leads and vendors, conducting reliability studies, interpreting engineering drawings, and understanding maintenance activities in the oil and gas industry.

What you’ll be doing

You will support projects and improvement activities for the assigned operating units to help to implement SEAM standards.The Manage Asset Care process is foundational for employing risk-based processes to establish a ‘Cost and Reliability’ optimized scope for asset equipment care. MAC's full value is achieved through the integration with the other core processes: MTO, ESP (w/ PTM), ME, MSC, TA, and Project Execution. You will also require the individual to ensure the deliverables to prepare maintenance strategies, carry out the assessment, ensure correct prioritization of work, troubleshoot & propose technical solutions virtually, co-ordinate discussion with stakeholders, conduct Risk Assessments, ensure good QA/QC, record keeping, & final job closure to enable high equipment reliability & plant technical availability.  Understand the complexities and intricacies of maintenance activities of equipment’s in the oil and gas industry by studying the operations and maintenance manuals of OEMs, general task lists, equipment specific task lists, test certificates, maintenance reports, spare part list, maintenance strategies, etc., and technical discussions with global, site maintenance lead/technical authorities & OEMs/Vendors, etc., Constantly engage with site maintenance leads, original equipment manufacturers, and vendors, and conduct reliability studies in consultation with site maintenance personnel.  Interact and communicate with the site focal for reliability studies and maintenance strategies, understanding the intricacies of how the actual maintenance activities for equipment have been planned and performed in various Operating Units of Shell.  Understanding the functions of the various equipment and instruments and a thorough knowledge of reading/ interpreting the engineering drawings (P&IDs, PEFS, PFDs). Managing stakeholders/ representatives of various operating units through effective communication and identifying & resolving the bottlenecks for data analysis, maintaining issue logs, and using the same in implementing changes/improvements in the processes. To achieve business Context, Performance targets, Asset Integrity, Availability, and costs, risk-based methodologies like RCM are utilized to Optimize Maintenance Activities.  

What you bring

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Instrumentation Engineering.Minimum of 6 years of experience in Instrumentation Maintenance and troubleshooting of Field Instruments, Analyzers, F&G Equipment, SIS, and knowledge of Process control loops, Control/Shutdown systems, and DCS/PLC.Ability to understand asset structure, conduct SCE reviews, manage Bill of Materials (BoM), identify functions and functional failures, and assess production loss using equipment drawings, circuit diagrams, PEFS, P&IDs, and OEM manuals.Experience in FMEA, criticality analysis, data gathering for reliability analysis, and performing gap analysis between P&IDs and CMMS maintainable data.Conduct reliability-centered maintenance studies, prepare and update maintenance strategy review schedules, and use tools like PM Optimization (PMO), REM strategy reviews, RCM, and Equipment Care Strategy Library.Hands-on experience in Plant Maintenance within the Oil & Gas and Petrochemical fields, familiar with daily operations, preventive maintenance, and corrective maintenance execution activities.Exposure to Plant Turnaround, Pitstop, and Major maintenance activities as part of the maintenance, planning, or engineering support teams.Effective communication skills and stakeholder management are essential.Proficiency in the SAP PM/MM module is required. Knowledge of MS Word, PowerPoint, and Power BI is an added advantage.Strong analytical skills, proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues, solid understanding of asset reliability performance, and ability to collaborate effectively within a team.Able to deal with a wide range of stakeholders at different seniority levels and experience working with different cultures. Support the operational units via a virtual environment.

What we offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performancerelated salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national andinternational teams.Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.