Lead Structural Engineer vacatures in Schiphol

Structural Topsides Lead Engineer (S)

Posted on Dec 11, 2025

Imagine your career taking you to the depths of innovation and the heights of impact. Our people enable continuous progress. Their commitment, collective expertise, and unique capabilities are the engine room behind SBM Offshore's True. Blue. Transition. - shaping the future of energy, and beyond.

About Us:

SBM Offshore is the world's deepwater ocean-infrastructure expert. Our work is already resulting in cleaner, more efficient energy production. True. Blue. Transition. is our promise to enable that into the future while at the same time using our expertise to support new and existing markets in the blue economy. It starts with Advancing our Core: continuing to advance the decarbonization of traditional energy production. While Pioneering More: helping to enable the energy transition and using our unique capabilities in ocean infrastructure to support more industries to grow sustainably. Sharing our experience for a better blue tomorrow.

Purpose

• The Discipline Lead Engineer's purpose is to deliver reliable, cost-effective, and safe engineering solutions that meet project objectives and contribute to the overall success and sustainability of the projects.

Responsibilities

• You are accountable for the selection of methods and procedures, performance of the work, and optimization of the design within the discipline scope of the specifications, in compliance with international codes, company and industry standards and regulations.
• You are accountable for proactively planning and completing discipline activities and deliverables within agreed time frame and budget.
• You are responsible for defining and managing the discipline resource needs for your project.
• You ensure that the discipline Scope of Work is delivered in accordance with both the contractual requirements and SBM's internal requirements.
• You are responsible for capturing lessons learnt, understanding the change impact within and across project system boundaries.
• You are responsible for managing discipline interfaces, including third parties where applicable (clients, subcontractors, vendors, classification societies and regulatory bodies).
• You may act as Principal for an assigned scope of work and/or may be designated as a Technical Expert (TE) and/or Engineering Method Authority.

Education

• Engineer Diploma in relevant discipline

Experience

• 10 to 15 years in Oil & Gas Industry