Regional Operations Advisor

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.

Purpose

• As a Regional Operations Advisor, you are responsible for supporting safe, reliable, and efficient operations across assets in your region. You act as a senior expert and trusted partner to the Operations and HR leadership teams, providing high-level operational support, risk oversight, and performance insights. You facilitate knowledge sharing across regions and functions, lead improvement initiatives, and act as a first point of contact during unplanned or critical events. Your contributions drive operational excellence, safeguard compliance, and sustain long-term business value.

Responsibilities

• You provide expert operational guidance to regional teams, ensuring alignment with global governance, standards, and procedures.
• You serve as the regional focal point for unplanned events and operational escalations, supporting root cause investigations, mitigation measures, and lessons learned.
• You monitor operational KPIs and performance trends, identifying improvement opportunities and proposing corrective actions to drive excellence.
• You support high-risk operations, Management of Change (MoC) processes, and operational readiness activities such as HAZID/HAZOP reviews.
• You collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Asset Integrity, Technical Authorities, and Projects to embed operational perspectives early in asset lifecycle decisions.
• You contribute to capability building across the region by mentoring, supporting knowledge transfer, and ensuring critical operational experience is retained.
• You support compliance with ABS, FLAG, and evolving regulatory requirements in collaboration with the Global Operations Advisor.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Marine Operations, or equivalent. Master Mariner or Chief Engineer certification (STCW Reg. A.II/2 or A.III/2) is highly valued.

Experience

• Minimum 10 years' experience in offshore operations, preferably on FPSOs. Prior experience as Offshore Installation Manager (OIM), Master Mariner, or Shore-Based Operations Manager is strongly preferred.

Functional Competencies
FPSO Topsides

Learning from events

Marine - Marine Equipment Systems

Marine - Marine Operations Systems

Monitoring performance and compliance

Regulatory Management

SIMOPs Management

GENERAL INFORMATION
SBM Offshore N.V. is a listed holding company that is headquartered in Amsterdam. It holds direct and indirect interests in other companies that collectively with SBM Offshore N.V. form the SBM Offshore Group ("the Company"). For further information, please visit our website at The companies in which SBM Offshore N.V., directly and indirectly, owns investments are separate entities.

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.