
Shell
Rotating Equipment Technician (Oil & Gas Central Maintenance)
- Permanent
- Ras Tanura, Qatar
- Experience 10 - 15 yrs
Job expiry date: 19/03/2026
Job overview
Date posted
02/02/2026
Location
Ras Tanura, Qatar
Salary
Undisclosed
Compensation
Job description
The Rotating Equipment Technician is part of the Central Maintenance Team within Shell’s Integrated Gas and Upstream business in Qatar and supports operations at the Pearl GTL Complex in Ras Laffan. The role is responsible for executing preventive and corrective maintenance activities in accordance with the AMS ME Process to ensure the availability, integrity, and reliability of critical rotating equipment and systems. The technician maintains large and small rotating equipment based on approved maintenance strategies, procedures, and work instructions while ensuring compliance with Shell’s Code of Conduct, Permit to Work system, and safety requirements. Responsibilities include diagnosing and resolving complex equipment issues, overhauling rotating machinery, troubleshooting and maintaining dry gas seals, wet seals, white metal bearings, and mechanical transmission assemblies. The role involves performing on-site cold and hot alignment, inspecting gas turbines (CI, HGPI, Major) and steam turbines (Minor and Major), commissioning and testing rotating equipment, and checking shafts, stator/rotor assemblies, and bearing clearances. The technician establishes job plans, cost estimates, and durations, compiles maintenance and integrity activity plans, identifies spare parts requirements, updates re-order quantities, and manages contract services. Additional duties include specifying controls for engineering hazards, modifying plant systems per approved change requests, interpreting technical drawings, OEM manuals, standards, maintaining air systems and hydraulic components, applying correct lubrication types and methods, and using vibration analysers, condition monitoring systems, machining operations, and dynamic balancing techniques. The role directly supports asset integrity, operational excellence, and continuous improvement within Shell’s Pearl GTL Asset organization.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Execute preventive and corrective maintenance activities on rotating equipment in accordance with the AMS ME Process.
- Diagnose, troubleshoot, and overhaul large and small rotating equipment including pumps, compressors, turbines, engines, and generators.
- Maintain and repair dry gas seals, wet seals, white metal bearings, and mechanical transmission assemblies.
- Perform cold and hot alignment activities on-site and inspect gas turbines and steam turbines during CI, HGPI, Minor, and Major inspections.
- Commission and test rotating equipment and verify shafts, stator/rotor components, and bearing clearances.
- Develop job plans, cost estimates, durations, and maintenance and integrity activity plans.
- Identify spare parts requirements, update re-order quantities, and manage external contract services.
- Specify engineering hazard controls, implement approved plant system modifications, and interpret technical drawings, OEM manuals, and standards.
- Maintain air systems, hydraulic components, and apply correct lubrication methods and lubrication types.
- Use vibration analysers, equipment condition monitoring systems, machining tools, and dynamic balancing techniques while ensuring safety-critical compliance.
Experience & skills
- Technical education in an engineering discipline to at least Diploma level or equivalent.
- Minimum 8 to 12 years of proven experience in oil, gas, or petrochemical industry rotating equipment maintenance.
- Hands-on experience maintaining pumps, compressors, turbines, engines, and generators.
- Knowledge of safety-critical maintenance activities and Permit to Work compliance.
- Experience using handheld and online equipment condition monitoring systems.
- Ability to use vibration analysers and interpret vibration records.
- Understanding of rotating equipment international standards and DEPs.
- Knowledge of machining operations using workshop machine tools.
- Experience with dynamic balancing of rotating equipment.