Mechanical Engineer

Shell

  • Bintulu, Sarawak
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 22 hours ago
Sarawak, MalaysiaJob Family Group: Discipline EngineeringWorker Type: RegularPosting Start Date: September 4, 2025Business unit: Integrated Gas and UpstreamExperience Level: Experienced ProfessionalsJob Description:What’s the roleAs Mechanical Engineer you will be part of Malaysia’s first deepwater sour gas development — the Rosmari and Marjoram fields in Sarawak. The role focuses on ensuring safe, efficient hydrocarbon production within technical limits, business goals, and regulatory standards.Key responsibilities:
  • Oversee offshore NUI operations — from subsea and dry tree systems to export pipeline, including chemical/MEG injection, metering, and power generation.
  • Manage onshore gas receiving and processing — separation, stabilization, compression, mercury removal, sweetening, and metering.
  • Lead acid gas treatment — high-H₂S removal, sulphur recovery/pelletization, and MEG systems for export of sweet gas and sulphur.
  • Operate and optimize utility systems — steam, boilers, service water, instrument air, nitrogen, and other essential services for R&M OGP.
What you’ll be doingYou will be responsible for ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient operations of Malaysia’s first deepwater sour gas development.Key accountabilities include:
  • Safety & Start-Up: Champion Goal Zero (no harm, no leaks) and lead asset readiness and safe start-up of offshore and onshore facilities, meeting SURU targets.
  • Operations Excellence: Deliver top-quartile performance in production, emissions, and HSSE targets during the operating phase.
  • Technical Leadership: Lead multidisciplinary teams to integrate SEAM processes and drive reliability through CPBM, PTM, RAM, RBA, and other asset management tools.
  • Mechanical Discipline Expertise: Provide engineering assurance across pressure equipment, piping, tanks, and relief systems, ensuring compliance with Shell DEP, API, ASME, and regulatory standards.
  • Inspection & Integrity: Support license-to-operate activities, manage IMS tools, and lead long-term integrity initiatives for mechanical assets.
  • Engineering Solutions: Deliver advanced mechanical analysis (e.g., stress, vibration, FEA), support MoC processes, and provide sustainable solutions for asset integrity and refurbishment.
  • Collaboration & Development: Work closely with MMI and Heat Transfer teams, support RCA investigations, and contribute to continuous improvement in mechanical integrity and reliability.
What you bring
  • Experience in the oil & gas industry, with a strong focus on Operations & Maintenance of mechanical equipment.
  • Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or a related field.
  • Hands-on experience in project execution, commissioning, start-up, troubleshooting, and maintenance of static equipment such as pressure vessels, piping, heat exchangers, reactors, columns, and packaged systems.
  • Experience in sour gas processing or integrated refinery/petrochemical operations.
  • Strong knowledge of static equipment, including vessels, piping, heat exchangers, reactors, and columns. Familiarity with furnaces and thermal rating of shell-and-tube heat exchangers is a plus.
  • Certified DOSH Steam Engineer (Grade 1 or 2).
  • Proven leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to drive performance and align with business goals.
  • Proficient in international design codes and standards such as API, ASME, TEMA, and Shell DEP.
-What we offerYou 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 performance related 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 organization 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 and
  • International teams.
  • Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmed.
We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal .Shell in MalaysiaShell has been a partner in fueling Malaysia’s progress for over 130 years. Our journey with the nation is intertwined – in as much as Shell has played a role in growing the country’s energy sector, Malaysia has also played a significant role in the company’s progress.Our business has diversified from a modest kerosene venture to a group of companies engaged in every aspect of the modern oil and gas business.Today, Shell maintains a strong multi-faceted presence in the country through our longer-term investments, innovation-sharing, and impact to local communities.We helped pioneer Malaysia’s oil and gas industry and fueled its growth. We discovered Malaysia’s first oil onshore, then took the industry offshore, and most recently into the technically challenging depths of Deepwater.Shell’s strong retail network fuels the journeys of millions of Malaysian motorists every day. In fact, Shell is even able to offer one of the most differentiated fuel and lubricant products, some of which were pioneered right here in the country.We fuelled the ambitions of Malaysians: whether the generations of retail business partners; thousands of Shell scholars over the years; young entrepreneurs from our LiveWire programme; or Shell staff and alumni who are Malaysian luminaries today.Shell continues to be one of the top employers in Malaysia with thousands employed in our upstream, midstream and downstream businesses, as well as in our service and support functionsDISCLAIMER: Please note: We occasionally amend or withdraw Shell jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to the advertised closing date. Before applying, you are advised to read our data protection policy. This policy describes the processing that may be associated with your personal data and informs you that your personal data may be transferred to Shell/Shell Group companies around the world. The Shell Group and its approved recruitment consultants will never ask you for a fee to process or consider your application for a career with Shell. Anyone who demands such a fee is not an authorised Shell representative and you are strongly advised to refuse any such demand. Shell is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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