Facilities Engineer

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Job Family Group:

Process Engineering

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

September 17, 2026

Business Unit:

Projects and Technology

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

What’s the role

The Facilities Engineer is part of the Brazil Project & Engineering organization, acting as a key contributor to the safe, reliable, and competitive delivery of NOV (Non-Operate Venture) and SOV (Operated Venture) assets, in alignment with the Shell Control Framework. The position offers a multidisciplinary role within one of the most relevant Deepwater portfolios globally, with extensive interaction with operations, projects, joint-venture partners, and the global expert community.

This position reports directly to the Host Engineering Manager and serves as the technical arm of the Host EM in portfolio delivery, providing support to NOV Shell Brasil facilities, with a focus on assuring the ‘safe, compliant, and reliable’ scope delivery.

Accountabilities:

• Deliver topsides technical input across concept selects, FEED, detailed design, integration, commissioning, and start-up activities.

• Develop robust and practical technical solutions that enhance project competitiveness and operability.

• Review and influence the engineering design of new FPSOs and brownfield projects, ensuring alignment with assurance requirements and business needs.

• Support project execution by identifying risks, proposing mitigation or recovery actions, and helping ensure deliverables meet asset priorities.

• Work closely with Technical Authorities and SMEs to maintain technical quality and adherence to Shell standards.

• Provide technical inputs, risk assessments, ballot reviews, and responses to technical queries to support assurance and decision-making.

• Contribute to Key Focus Area initiatives across the asset and project portfolio.

• Support integration between projects and operations to improve readiness and enable robust handovers.

• Support the Operational Excellence team in conceptual project assessments and opportunity framing activities.

• Execute or support feasibility studies for brownfield opportunities.

• Provide GHG forecasting input for greenfield projects and support abatement discussions with operators and partners.

• Collaborate with JV partners, operators, internal teams in Brazil, and global Engineering communities to strengthen technical integration and partnership.

• Contribute to continuous improvement in engineering delivery and management systems.

• Promote and embody the “One Team Shell Brazil” mindset.

• Demonstrate HSSE commitment, contributing to Goal Zero in both personal and process safety.

• Participate in incident investigation teams when required.

What you bring

• Must have legal authorization to work in Brazil on a full-time basis for anyone other than the current employer

• Must hold a valid CREA registration

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering and relevant experience in Process Engineering

• A minimum of 10 years of solid experience in facilities engineering, operations, and project execution

• Proven experience with offshore projects, ideally Deepwater developments in Brazil

• Strong skills in project execution, assurance processes, Hysys simulation

• Experience in project management and operational support is desirable

• Ability to integrate multidisciplinary teams and effectively manage multiple internal and external stakeholders

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, fluent in Portuguese and English

• Demonstrated commitment to HSSE and continuous improvement

What we offer

You 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 organisation 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 programmes.

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,click here.

Shell in Brazil

Who We Are

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies, employing 85,000 people and with operations in more than 70 countries. We use advanced technologies and take an innovative approach as we seek to help the world build a sustainable energy future.

Shell is a customer-focused organisation, serving more than 1 million commercial and industrial customers, and around 33 million customers daily at more than 47,000 Shell-branded retail service stations.

Our approach

Shell’s strategy is to deliver more value with less emissions as we work to become a net-zero emissions business by 2050.

As we navigate the energy transition through the next decade, we will leverage our global footprint, the trust in our brand, and our innovation and technology capabilities to be the energy company that customers and countries choose to be their partner. We are positioning Shell to become the investment case and partner of choice through the energy transition.

Our values

At Shell, we share a set of core values - honesty, integrity and respect for people - which underpin all the work we do. The Shell General Business Principles, Code of Conduct and Ethics and Compliance Manual help everyone at Shell act in line with these values and comply with relevant laws and regulations.

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