Senior Piping (Materials) Engineer

The Engineering department is responsible for providing innovative, cost-effective Engineering services and solutions in all areas of Bluewater’s business, ensuring a responsible approach to Client requirements, International Rules and Obligations and HSEQ obligations.

Bluewater is a leading provider of innovative Single Point Mooring systems (SPM) and operator of Floating Production Storage and Offloading units (FPSO). Since its foundation in 1978, Bluewater has built a technological lead specialising in design, development, lease and operation of tanker-based production and storage systems, and has become a leading provider of innovative Single Point Mooring systems.
Bluewater currently owns and operates a number of Floating Production Storage and Offloading Systems (FPSOs): the Glas Dowr, the Aoka Mizu, the Bleo Holm, the Hæwene Brim and Munin.

As a Senior Piping Engineer you are responsible for the delivery of the piping engineering work scope in line with the project’s technical specification, budget and planning. You may work as part of a team or assigned as a lead of a team yourself. You will report to the Lead / Project Engineer on progress, setbacks and concerns, and you report to the Section Head on personal achievements and section matters.

Within Bluewater, you can expect to perform several different tasks:

• Creating piping material specifications, valve and fittings specifications for FPSO’s and SPM systems
• Procurement related activities like contact with vendors, TBE's and review of vendor data
• Prepare Material Take-offs and Valve and Special Item lists
• Participate in HAZIDs and 3D model review
• Participating in or leading a team of several engineers and designers and supervise subcontractors
• Creating CTR's, Scope of Works, provide input to the Project Planner and change management
• Obtain client and third party approval on the project and assist the yard site team

What we offer:

• a fulltime/40 hours per week position within an international environment
• besides a competitive salary, you will receive a 13th month, holiday allowance and travel allowance
• 29 days of paid holiday annually and the opportunity to purchase 10 additional holidays annually
• the opportunity to take part in our collective health insurance scheme
• a good pension scheme of which we pay the complete pension contribution
• onboarding program; we warmly welcome our new colleagues, so they feel home as soon as possible
• different activities which are very divers and always voluntary, for example playing sports, CPC run, friday drinks, quiz night, Sail day and our annual Christmas party

If you would like to apply for this position, please click on the ‘apply’ button below. This will lead you further through the application process. We kindly ask you to upload your motivation and cv and within 2 weeks, we will inform you on the status of your application. Please note that this is a permanent staff position. Interim candidates should not apply. We can only accept applications from candidates who are currently eligible to live and work in the Netherlands. An (online) assessment could be part of the selection procedure. Acquisition by agencies is not appreciated and will not be responded to.