Principal Asset Performance Engineer

About the position

Yinson Production AS is seeking a Principal Asset Performance Engineer to join the Asset Lifecycle Management department in Oslo. As an operator, you will be responsible for assessing, recommending, and implementing improvement initiatives based on operations analytics across the fleet of eight floating production units. Your work will focus on strategic areas such as remote operations, digitalization, predictive analytics, performance optimization, and troubleshooting of assets in service.

You will be tasked with harvesting and operationalizing the capabilities developed through Yinson Production's digital transformation initiatives. This includes utilizing data, analytics, digital twins, condition monitoring systems, and performance applications to enable predictive maintenance, remote operations, and continuous asset performance improvement. You will report to the Manager of Operations Analytics and work closely with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and IT/OT teams to improve operability, maintainability, and overall asset effectiveness across the fleet.

Core responsibilities

• Provide technical support to Operations, Business Development, and Projects.
• Develop and optimize predictive, condition-based, and risk-based maintenance programs.
• Leverage data platforms, condition monitoring systems, analytics tools, and digital twins to generate measurable business value.
• Identify opportunities for increased efficiency, reduced emissions, improved energy performance, and enhanced operational stability.
• Support the development of remote monitoring, diagnostics, and performance optimization capabilities.
• Drive initiatives that improve equipment reliability, reduce unplanned downtime, and optimize lifecycle costs.
• Collaborate with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and IT/OT teams to improve operability, maintainability, and overall asset effectiveness across the fleet.
• Provide periodic technical reporting.
• Maintain current professional knowledge by tracking developments in methodology, standards, and technology.
• Apply a troubleshooting and problem-solving approach across all lifecycle phases, including outside your own discipline where needed.
• Interact effectively with non-technical functions.
• Travel as required, including liaising with other Yinson offices, inspections at shipyards, candidate vessels, and operating production units offshore and onshore.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Process Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Reliability Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in asset performance, reliability engineering, maintenance support, operational support, field services, or asset management within complex industrial environments.
• Experience with offshore production facilities, process systems, rotating equipment, turbomachinery, and maintenance optimization.
• Proven experience in troubleshooting, root cause analysis, performance improvement, and lifecycle management of critical assets.
• Experience applying digital technologies to improve reliability, predictive maintenance, operational performance, and remote operations.
• Experience with industrial data systems such as AVEVA PI System, maintenance management systems, condition monitoring technologies, advanced analytics tools, and process simulation software.
• Fluent professional English, written and spoken.
• Willingness and ability to undertake international travel, including offshore.

We offer

• Work across the full lifecycle on units in production and projects.
• Broad discipline responsibility and short decision paths in a flat organization.
• An international technical environment in Oslo with daily contact across our global organization.
• Participation in our digitalization work connecting real-time data, simulation, and equipment information across the fleet.
• Terms in line with the wider oil and gas industry: salary benchmarked against Tekna's salary statistics, bonus scheme, health insurance, and a good pension arrangement.
• A very good lunch arrangement at the office.

Practical information

Send your application and CV in English to kari.berte.bye@yinson.com if you are unsure whether you are a good fit. Yinson Production assesses applicants on their competence and suitability for the position. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.