Staff Facilities Engineer, Construction Community, SIEP
- Location: US
- Joined Shell: October 2002
What is your current role at Shell?
I support the execution of floating deepwater projects by providing technical expertise, project management skills, leadership, and team oriented and customer focus interpersonal skills to multiple technical challenging deepwater projects both domestically and internationally.
I’m also responsible for providing project support and leadership, accountability for cost, schedule and HSE performance as well as to support portfolio strategies, and community processes which enhance the overall group performance.
What do you like best about your role?
I like my team and the working environment. I enjoy being involved in diverse project-related activities with diverse groups of people and backgrounds sharing the same objectives, as well as the opportunity to get involved in new techniques and processes. Plus, I am empowered by a significant level of independence to perform my own activities.
Tell us about your background and experience
I hold a Master in Business Administration degree (MBA) and am an Electrical Engineer with 17 years of Project Management experience in onshore pipelines, pump stations, offshore topsides facilities, riser systems, subsea tiebacks, fabrication, commissioning, and power generation facilities.
Before joining Shell, I have worked as a Project Manager in both Colombia and Houston with an international exploration and productions company and as an Electrical & Communications Field Engineer working for the construction department of an international petrochemical company.
What makes you stay at Shell?
Certainly, the opportunity to be a part of Shell’s legacy and contribute to something that will help make a difference in many people’s lives is attractive.
Shell clearly cares for their people e.g.: work-life balance, mature processes, and a long-term approach to develop and retain people in the same way we look at any prospects/projects (+/- 15-20 yrs lifetime). It seems to me that at Shell, diversity is not just another slogan but actually something you can feel and is implemented on a daily basis through the professionalism expressed in day-to-day activities and relationships.
