Principal Asset Performance Engineer - Drive Performance Across Our Global Fleet

About the job

Yinson Production AS is seeking a Principal Asset Performance Engineer based in Oslo. As an operator, we hold the technical responsibility for our eight floating production units, and this role involves assessing, recommending, and implementing improvement initiatives based on operations analytics across the fleet. The work includes strategic efforts related to remote operations, digitalization, predictive analytics, performance optimization, and troubleshooting on assets in service.

Responsibilities

• Harvest and operationalize the capabilities developed through Yinson Production's digital transformation initiatives by utilizing data, analytics, digital twins, condition monitoring systems, and performance applications to enable predictive maintenance, remote operations, and continuous asset performance improvement.
• Review and analyze equipment health indicators, maintenance trends, process performance, and production data to identify anomalies, degradation patterns, and improvement opportunities.
• 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.
• 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 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.

How to apply

Send your application and CV in English. If you are unsure whether you are a good fit, please contact Kari Berte Daasvatn Bye at kari.berte.bye@yinson.com for a non-binding and confidential conversation.

Contact

Kari Berte Daasvatn Bye
kari.berte.bye@yinson.com