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What’s the role?
As a Senior Materials & Corrosion Engineer at Shell, you will provide deep technical leadership in materials engineering, corrosion, coatings, and asset integrity management across Shell’s global portfolio. You will work within a 30+ member global expert team, delivering high‑impact R&D and technical solutions that support upstream, downstream, LNG, GTL, and deepwater assets.
This is a senior technical role with influence—shaping multi‑year technology programs, integrity strategies, and next‑generation solutions that enhance safety, reliability, and value while supporting Shell’s transition to a lower‑carbon energy system.
What you’ll be doing
- Lead complex R&D and technical service projects in materials, corrosion, coatings, and integrity management across global assets.
- Provide senior technical expertise to develop, assess, and deploy integrity management strategies aligned with energy transition objectives.
- Design, execute, and interpret materials and corrosion laboratory testing programs to support technology development, qualification, and deployment.
- Deliver materials and integrity solutions across the full lifecycle—from concept development through field application—working closely with global, multidisciplinary experts and external partners.
- Contribute to technology innovation, digitalization, and improved asset integrity practices to reduce CAPEX, OPEX, and operational risk.
- Coach, mentor, and technically guide junior engineers, building deep materials and corrosion capability within the organization.
What you bring
- Master’s degree with 6+ years of relevant experience, or PhD with 4+ years’ experience in Materials Science, Metallurgy, Mechanical Engineering, or Chemical Engineering.
- Experience: Strong, proven background in materials engineering and corrosion, preferably within the oil and gas or energy industry.
- Added advantage: Prior R&D experience and/or hands‑on field exposure in asset integrity, corrosion management, or materials qualification.
- Demonstrated familiarity with materials and corrosion laboratory environments, test design, execution, and data interpretation.
- Solid working knowledge of key industry codes and standards, including ISO 15156, AMPP TM0316, API 571, ASME BPV Section VIII, and ASME Section IX.
- Strong interpersonal and stakeholder‑management skills, cultural adaptability, and a hands‑on, delivery‑focused mindset suited to a global technical leadership role.
What we offer
You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.
- Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.
- Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.
- Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.
- Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.
- Achieve your balance in a value-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.
- Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.
- Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.
- Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.
- Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.
- Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and
- international teams.
- Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.
We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.
Who We Are
Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies, employing 103,000 people and with operations in more than 70 countries. We use advanced technologies and take an innovative approach as we seek to help the world build a sustainable energy future.
Shell is a customer-focused organisation, serving more than 1 million commercial and industrial customers, and around 33 million customers daily at more than 47,000 Shell-branded retail service stations.
Our approach
Powering Progress sets our strategy to become a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050, generating value for our shareholders, our customers and wider society. As we move forward on this journey, we will power lives and respect nature while maintaining our core values of honesty, integrity, and respect for people.
Our values
At Shell, we share a set of core values – honesty, integrity and respect for people – which underpin all the work we do. The Shell General Business Principles, Code of Conduct and Ethics and Compliance Manual help everyone at Shell act in line with these values and comply with relevant laws and regulations.
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About Shell Oil Company
Shell Oil Company is an affiliate of the Royal Dutch Shell plc, a global group of energy and petrochemical companies with 90,000
employees in more than 80 countries. We deliver a diverse range of energy solutions and petrochemicals to customers worldwide. These include transporting and trading oil and gas, marketing natural gas, producing and selling fuel for ships and planes, generating electricity and providing energy efficiency advice. We also produce and sell petrochemical building blocks to industrial customers globally, and we are investing in making renewable and lower-carbon energy sources competitive for large-scale use. In the U.S., we operate in 50 states and employ more than 20,000 people delivering energy in a responsible manner. For more information,visit www.shell.us. com
What you'll do
- Lead complex R&D and technical service projects in materials, corrosion, coatings, and integrity management across global assets. Provide senior technical expertise to develop and deploy integrity management strategies aligned with energy transition objectives.
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