Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Job Family Group:

Maritime

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

March 31, 2026

Business Unit:

Downstream and Renewables

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

What's the role

Shell is seeking a highly skilled Maritime Technical Advisor (MTA) to join our Americas Upstream Integrated Gas delivery hub. The MTA will play a critical role in ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient marine operations, supporting our Powering Progress strategy by driving operational excellence, decarbonization, and compliance across our maritime assets.

Accountabilities:

• Deliver performance excellence by understanding required business outcomes and exceeding customer expectations.
• Act as a safety leader and risk manager, confidently making interventions on vessels, in ports, and at terminals.
• Engage in fieldwork, travel as required and positively influence HSSE & SP and business delivery.
• Apply causal reasoning to learn from incidents and develop corrective actions to prevent reoccurrence.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence using FIT4.
• Ensure effective implementation of Shell Performance Framework, SEAM Standards, Specifications, Guidelines, Maritime Safety Requirements from Transport Safety Standard, Maritime Design and Engineering Standards, and Shipping and Maritime Management System.
• Safeguard Shell's license to operate by ensuring compliance with international and national regulations, industry standards, and best practices.
• Provide assurance for terminals, docks, and crude oil operations with dynamically positioned shuttle tankers.
• Support digital transformation and simplification initiatives to enhance operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with PTEs and SMEs throughout the Maritime Technical Function (MTF) and with Shipping and Maritime Centers of Excellence.
• Support and provide coverage for operations across the Americas, including Raizen and LNG.
• Participate in emergency and operational incident response as required.

Preferred Competencies & Enhanced Skills

• Solid experience with DP vessels, including power generation, propulsion, cargo, and critical marine systems.
• Practical exposure to testing, commissioning, and assurance of marine systems (FAT/SAT, class and contractual compliance).
• Strong understanding of power management systems (PMS), electrical load balance, automation, and system integration.
• Proven capability in maintenance, troubleshooting, and reliability, including dry-dock support and major equipment overhauls.
• Experience with marine assurance, inspections, and risk assessments, ensuring compliance with class, flag, and international regulations.
• Ability to support engineering studies, technical specifications, and project execution across operations and new initiatives.
• Effective communicator, able to work across operations, engineering, OEMs, shipowners, and regulators.

Leadership, Operations & Stakeholder Management

• Skilled in coordinating multidisciplinary teams across engineering, operations, and HSE.
• Strong communicator, adept at translating complex technical issues into operational decisions.
• Experienced in technical reporting, audit preparation, and presenting assurance findings to senior management.
• Effective at building relationships with shipowners, charterers, OEMs, and regulatory bodies.

What you bring

• Must have legal authorization to work in Brazil on a full-time basis for anyone other than the current employer
• Bachelor's degree is required
• 5+ years of experience in Maritime or Naval Architect
• DP Shuttle Tanker experience is a plus
• Maritime experience - STCW/III-2 Chief engineer or 2nd Engineer, expertise, and credentials qualifying for assessment as Authorized Person Maritime Safety, Technical Authority, or Subject Matter Expert within MTF
• Ability to prioritize, focus, and deliver must-wins as a valued member of integrated natural teams
• Fluency in Portuguese and English is essential

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 values-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

Shell in Brazil

Who We Are

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies, employing 85,000 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

Shell's strategy is to deliver more value with less emissions as we work to become a net-zero emissions business by 2050.

As we navigate the energy transition through the next decade, we will leverage our global footprint, the trust in our brand, and our innovation and technology capabilities to be the energy company that customers and countries choose to be their partner. We are positioning Shell to become the investment case and partner of choice through the energy transition.

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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