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SDS Shop Lead Engineer

Location: 

Houston, TX, US

Employment type:  Employee
Place of work:  Hybrid
Offshore/Onshore:  Onshore

TechnipFMC is committed to driving real change in the energy industry. Our ambition is to build a sustainable future through relentless innovation and global collaboration – and we want you to be part of it. You’ll be joining a culture that values curiosity, expertise, and ideas as well as diversity, inclusion, and authenticity. Bring your unique energy to our team of more than 20,000 people worldwide, and discover a rewarding, fulfilling, and varied career that you can take in anywhere you want to go.  

Job Description

Employer:    FMC TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
 
Job Title:   SDS Shop Lead Engineer                  
                                                  
Job Location:13460 Lockwood Road, Houston, TX 77044          
                                                        
Duties:                  

                                          
Act as the specialist technical lead within our drilling business. Responsible to train and develop engineers, review and approve documentation, ensure deliveries to clients are fully compliant to project requirements. Responsible to lead support for shop operations prior to well drilling activities (planning phase). Ensure proper planning and execution of post manufacturing services to our customers. Translate customer requirements into product specific specifications. Identify technology/product gaps in specifications. Responsible for safe, high quality, and on-time-delivery of assigned project deliverables assigned by project leaders. Identify and troubleshoot system issues. Hands-on labor in shop and/or field environment, which requires lifting, walking, stooping, bending, and some climbing. Attend internal and external meetings and serve as technical focal point for multiple projects. Develop solutions to problems by analyzing, interpreting and evaluating data. Anticipate potential problems and identify and proposed required preventive actions.

You are meant for this job if:

Requirements: Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field and 8 years of experience in the job offered or in a subsea Drilling Shop/Installation/Design Engineer related occupation.
 
Position requires experience in the following:
  1. Experience with engineering standards such API 17D, API 6A, API 5DP etc. and design guidelines, assembly procedures and maintenance documentation. 
  2. Experience in drilling equipment and tools including Conductor Housings, Wellhead Housings, Casing Hangers, Submudline Equipment, Annulus Seal assemblies, Gas Mats, Bore Protectors, Wear Bushings, Lock Down Bushings and all related Running tools for open water in-riser installations and drilling/running operations. 
  3. Experience with drilling related tools including Drill Ahead Tool, Casing Hanger Running Tools, Conductor Housing Running Tools, Annulus Seal Assembly Running Tools to operate Subsea Wellhead equipment. 
  4. Experience with workshop related assembly, disassembly, stackup, buckup, and welding related operations.  
  5. Experience with authoring, and updating of maintenance, refurbishment, assembly, testing, storage and handling related documentation. 
  6. Experience with supporting installation such as offshore on-call support and troubleshooting. 
  7. Experience creating and reviewing assembly and testing instructions for system level integration, stackups.
  8. Experience providing technical guidance and troubleshooting for SDS product line and workshop assemblies, including: buck-up machines, lathes, phosphate coating tank. 
 
To apply, visit careers.technipfmc.com and enter 13461 in “search by keyword” field. If offered employment, must have legal right to work in U.S. EOE, including disability/veterans. 
 

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Being a global leader in the energy industry requires an inclusive and diverse environment. TechnipFMC promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion by ensuring equal opportunities to all ages, races, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, gender expressions, disabilities, or all other pluralities. We celebrate who you are and what you bring. Every voice matters and we encourage you to add to our culture.

TechnipFMC respects the rights and dignity of those it works with and promotes adherence to internationally recognized human rights principles for those in its value chain.

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Date posted:  May 22, 2025
Requisition number:  13461


Nearest Major Market: Houston

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