KBR
Lead Mechanical Engineer
- Location
- IEC, IRQ, Basra, Iraq Energy City Az Zubayr, Building Uruk, Al Basrah
- Job type
- Full-time
- Sector
- عام
- Posted
- 13 October 2026
About the role
Title:
Lead Mechanical Engineer
Lead Mechanical Engineer
EFLD35 - Principal Technical Professional - Field Engineering
KBR Sustainable Technology Solutions (STS) provides holistic and value-added solutions across the entire asset life cycle. These include world-class licensed process technologies, differentiated advisory services, deep technical domain expertise, energy transition solutions, high-end design capabilities, and smart solutions to optimize planned and operating assets.
Responsibilities:
• Day to day delivery of Mechanical Engineering support for site operations.
• Deliver safe and effective operations by managing risks, addressing queries and minor modifications activities.
• Collaborates with Central Engineering team to identify and define engineering solutions to reduce risk and grow installed production capacity.
• Promotes a culture of open safety reporting and continuous improvement.
• Provides immediate front line support for Operations and Maintenance teams to resolve minor issues and escalate more significant issues to the Central Engineering Team.
• Ensures asset Mechanical Engineering risks (both static and rotating) are understood, controlled, managed and reduced.
• Participates in a variety of asset and project risk assessments
• Input into anomaly assessment and resolution plans.
• Monitors condition monitoring data and health of static and rotating equipment and associated operating envelopes, recording and investigating all Safe Operating Limit excursions.
• Monitors static/rotating equipment KPIs and initiates corrective actions as necessary.
• Provides Mechanical support to technical MoCs and Engineering Queries
• Acts as technical interface with Projects and Modifications organisation, including development of Statement of Requirements (SOR) and Project Initiation Requests (PIRs) and Decision Support Packages (DSP)
• Supports delivery of Production Efficiency Improvement and Defect Elimination processes (including simple investigations for deferrals and vulnerabilities)
• Identifies production vulnerabilities and optimization opportunities to support production forecast and grow IPC.
• Performs follow-up actions and observations from self-verification checks that are related to Mechanical Engineering
• Participates in Start Up Readiness and Assurance Reviews
• Provides coaching to junior engineers.
Experience, Qualifications & Key Skills
• Above 10 Years experience in O&G industry (Preferable with IOC’s direct or contract)
• Professional (Chartered) Engineer Preferred
• Technical degree in Mechanical Engineering or allied engineering subject.
• Experience in previous asset engineering / operations support engineering role
• Practical exposure to production facilities
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and coaching skills
• Strong bias for being proactive and getting results
• Excellent IT skills – Office suite, document management, applications for CMMS and Change Management.
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