Principal Asset Performance Engineer

Principal Asset Performance Engineer

Yinson Production owns and operates eight floating production units, and we are now seeking a Principal Asset Performance Engineer in Oslo. As an operator, we hold the technical responsibility and the position involves assessing, recommending and implementing improvement initiatives resulting from operations analytics across the fleet. The work will include strategic work related to remote operations and digitalization ambitions, predictive analytics, performance optimization and troubleshooting on assets in service.

About the position
Your task is to harvest and operationalize the capabilities developed through Yinson Production's digital transformation initiatives by utilizing data, analytics, digital twins, condition monitoring systems, and performance applications to enable predictive maintenance, remote operations, and continuous asset performance improvement. You join the Asset Lifecycle Management department in Oslo and report to the Manager of Operations Analytics. The fleet consists of eight units in operation, and the daily work comprises review and analyses of equipment health indicators, maintenance trends, process performance, and production data to identify anomalies, degradation patterns, and improvement opportunities. We are a dedicated group holding overall technical responsibility for the fleet. You get ownership of your own judgements, and the path from a technical recommendation to a decision is short.

Core responsibilities

• Technical support to Operations, Business Development, Projects
• Develop and optimize predictive, condition-based, and risk-based maintenance programs.
• Leverage data platforms, condition monitoring systems, analytics tools, and digital twins to generate measurable business value.
• Identify opportunities for increased efficiency, reduced emissions, improved energy performance, and enhanced operational stability.
• Support the development of remote monitoring, diagnostics, and performance optimization capabilities.
• Technical safety, reliability and operability
• Support barrier management, process safety monitoring, and risk-based decision making through the effective use of operational data, analytics, and digital technologies.
• Promotion of best practice through lifecycle approach.

Duties

• Drive initiatives that improve equipment reliability, reduce unplanned downtime, and optimize lifecycle costs.
• Collaborate with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and IT/OT teams to improve operability, maintainability, and overall asset effectiveness across the fleet.
• Provide periodic technical reporting.
• Maintain current professional knowledge by tracking developments in methodology, standards and technology, and by absorbing practice from clients, vendors and partners.
• Apply a troubleshooting and problem-solving approach across all lifecycle phases, including outside own discipline where needed.
• Interact effectively with non-technical functions.
• Travel as required, including liaising with other Yinson offices, inspections at shipyards, candidate vessels, and operating production units offshore and onshore.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Process Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Reliability Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in asset performance, reliability engineering, maintenance support, operational support, field services, or asset management within complex industrial environments.
• Experience with offshore production facilities, process systems, rotating equipment, turbomachinery, and maintenance optimization.
• Proven experience in troubleshooting, root cause analysis, performance improvement, and lifecycle management of critical assets.
• Experience applying digital technologies to improve reliability, predictive maintenance, operational performance, and remote operations.
• Experience with industrial data systems such as AVEVA PI System, maintenance management systems, condition monitoring technologies, advanced analytics tools, and process simulation software.
• Fluent professional English, written and spoken.
• Willingness and ability to undertake international travel, including offshore.

Functional Competencies

Requrements

• Operations Technical Support
• Multi-disciplinary Technical Coordination
• Rotating Equipment & Condition Monitoring
• Reliability, Operability and safety

Preffered

• Equipment Failure Analysis & RCA
• Vendor & OEM Communication
• Operations Support and Management of Change

We offer

• Work across the full lifecycle on units in production and projects
• Broad discipline responsibility and short decision paths in a flat organization
• An international technical environment in Oslo with daily contact across our global organization
• Participation in our digitalization work connecting real-time data, simulation and equipment information across the fleet
• Terms in line with the wider oil and gas industry: salary benchmarked against Tekna's salary statistics, bonus scheme, health insurance and a good pension arrangement
• A very good lunch arrangement at the office

Practical information

• Send application and CV. Application shall be submitted in English. If you are unsure whether you are a good fit, please contact Kari Berte Daasvatn Bye on kari.berte.bye@yinson.com, for a non-binding and confidential conversation.
• Yinson Production assesses applicants on their competence and suitability for the position. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.