Europe Mechanical Engineer & Project Engineer

Botlek, 3197 KT Botlek, Netherlands

Posted Thursday, November 20, 2025 at 5:00 AM

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Provide expert opinion, guidance, approval and leadership on mechanical, structural and metallurgical designs to engineering and operations to ensure the company maintains compliance to the EU Pressure Equipment Directive, UK Pressure Equipment (Safety) Regulation and Pressure systems Safety Regulations. Provide leadership on mechanical integrity to ensure risk of mechanical failures of critical equipment are mitigated.

Provide Project management services for implementation of assigned projects. Lead, define, plan & execute key capital projects in conjunction with site teams and Europe engineering and technical resources.

• Lead the management of Mechanical Integrity across all European sites, overseeing integrity assessments for high risk assets, responding to outcomes of inspections and management of changes through internal and external resources.
• Ownership of the Mechanical Integrity Criticality Assessment Register, revising and updated based on findings from integrity assessment and the addition of new assets from projects.
• Working with external consultants to develop RBI based written schemes of examination for all mechanical integrity assets (pressure vessels, heat exchanges, tanks, pipework, etc). Establishing scope, extent and amount levels.
• SME for asset Mechanical Integrity throughout the business with regards to assessing degradation mechanisms, modes of failure, identification of materials for hazardous applications, developing repair plans and investigations into failures/degradation, in conjunction with the external experts (like an Axiom).
• Performance reporting of asset condition and compliance of the MI Inspections with the use of SAP. Understanding high risk assets, end of life planning requirements and where assets may be non-compliant with overdue integrity assessment.
• Generating design scopes of works for all aspects of mechanical (eg piping & vessels) and structural application for projects across Europe.
• Approval authority for all mechanical and structural designs for all EU sites.
• Developing and owning mechanical and structural engineering standards (eg pipe service index, pipe classes, pipe stress, vessel design, metallurgy selection, structural design, etc).
• Manage the capital plan and projects for the site, working with the EU Projects and engineering team and the EU Automation team to deliver design content suitable for project execution on time and in budget for the site.

The role-holder has jurisdiction to make decisions relating to:

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• The postholder collaborates with stakeholders (site maintenance leaders, site leaders, central and site engineering resources) in the decision-making process to mutually agree key decisions e.g. repair plans from mechanical integrity inspection findings.
• Final approval of piping and vessel inspection protocols typically knows as Written Schemes of Examination (WSE) and Risk Based Inspection (RBI) plans for all EU sites
• Final approval of mechanical equipment repair plans across all EU sites
• Final approval of all mechanical and structural designs for new or modified equipment and across all EU sites.

• Able to effectively provide guidance to the operations organization, supporting the strategies, goals, and objectives of the business.

• Able to effectively build, lead and participate in teams.
• Able to effectively communicate, both verbally and written.

• Exhibit drive and influencing skills to arrive at solutions.
• Leverage other Bakelite Synthetics sites, processes, and…