Technical Support Team Lead

Technical Support Team Lead

**Req Id**:18103

**Job Family**:Operations and Technical Management

**Location**:Porto, PT, 4100-136

**Description**:

- Imagine your career taking you to the depths of innovation and the heights of impact. Our people enable continuous progress. Their commitment, collective expertise, and unique capabilities are the engine room behind SBM Offshore’s True. Blue. Transition. - shaping the future of energy, and beyond.

**About Us**:
SBM Offshore is the world’s deepwater ocean-infrastructure expert. Our work is already resulting in cleaner, more efficient energy production. True. Blue. Transition. is our promise to enable that into the future while at the same time using our expertise to support new and existing markets in the blue economy. It starts with Advancing our Core: continuing to advance the decarbonization of traditional energy production. While Pioneering More: helping to enable the energy transition and using our unique capabilities in ocean infrastructure to support more industries to grow sustainably. Sharing our experience for a better blue tomorrow.

**ROLE PURPOSE**

As Technical Support Team Lead, you are responsible for coordinating and ensure the competence of all the technical staff assigned to the Region within the department: Process and Facilities, Mechanical, EC&I, ASI and MoC. This role involves providing technical direction to operational management, ensuring compliance with corporate strategies, regulatory requirements, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives. You also play a key role in ensuring operational reliability, asset availability, improving operational performance, managing threats and risk and maintaining the integrity of assets across the region.

**RESPONSIBILITIES & MAIN TASKS**
- Responsible for oversee and ensure the competence of all technical personnel assigned to the Area/Region;
- Provide guidance and support to technical leads and engineers, escalating critical issues to HQ when necessary;
- Ensure the implementation of the Process Safety Barrier Management system, with timely completion of assurance tasks and mitigation activities for all units in the Area/Region;
- Monitor and evaluate the performance of key activities, providing monthly Asset Integrity feedback to HQ through the MAR report. Drive continuous improvement in operational performance by ensuring the efficient execution of Management of Change (MOC), planned and unplanned maintenance, and inspection activities. Ensure compliance with corporate strategies, management systems, classification standards, and regulatory requirements, while promoting continuous improvement by feeding lessons learned back to HQ;
- Ensure that all risk assessments and mitigation plans related to deviations, changes, and hot work are reviewed and approved by relevant discipline experts;
- Conduct regular site visits to verify the effective implementation of the Process Safety Management (PSM) system and related maintenance assurance activities, recommending corrective actions as needed;
- Assist in the development and management of the Maintenance & Inspection budget for all units in the Area/Region, ensuring all technical disciplines provide clear scopes and follow up on execution once approved;
- Review Tier 2 incidents, assign actions, oversee Root Cause Analysis (RCA) studies, and ensure that lessons learned are documented and implemented.

**JOB REQUIREMENTS**
- Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline;
- Strong understanding of process safety, asset integrity, and risk management;
- Proven experience in technical personnel management and development;
- Excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills;
- Technical Personnel Management;
- Process Safety and Asset Integrity Management;
- Risk Assessment and Mitigation;
- Budget Management and Incident Response;
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in industry.

**GENERAL INFORMATION**
- SBM Offshore is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. SBM Offshore does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.