Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer
BH-322458
Posted: 12/01/2026
- POA
- Australia Western Australia Perth
- Contract
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Oil & Gas
We are currently recruiting a Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer for Woodside Energy on an initial 12 month contract to be based in the Perth CBD with occasional site travel.
In this role, you will have an excellent opportunity to further enhance your operational and technical engineering skills and experience working with a wide variety of rotating equipment; working in a multi-discipline team developing effective, fit for purpose and executable solutions to address facility risks in a prioritised manner.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Full AU working rights are required to be considered.
With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.
In this role, you will have an excellent opportunity to further enhance your operational and technical engineering skills and experience working with a wide variety of rotating equipment; working in a multi-discipline team developing effective, fit for purpose and executable solutions to address facility risks in a prioritised manner.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Lead complex plant modifications to reduce safety, environmental, regulatory, and financial risks to ALARP.
- Provide technical input into equipment breakdown and troubleshooting, performance monitoring, maintenance strategy and work planning, HAZOP / LOPA workshops, ART forums, and incident investigations
- Manage external service providers for multidiscipline projects including scope definition, budget approval, assurance reviews, and schedule tracking.
- Collaborate across disciplines to deliver practical engineering solutions and support planning engineering via maintenance strategies, procedure updates, and queries.
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering with 10+ years in a technical Rotating Equipment Engineer capacity
- Experience on industrial rotating machinery including gas turbines (heavy duty and aeroderivative), compressors (centrifugal, axial and reciprocating) and pump
- 5+ years experience in Oil & Gas operations
- Process Safety knowledge
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
- Strong understanding of management of change, risk identification & assessment.
Full AU working rights are required to be considered.
With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.