# Market evidence report — rotating-equipment-engineer

Source: **50 real job ads** (JSearch API, countries: us 32, gb 18), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-19.
This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is
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## Seniority distribution

| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 25 | 50 % |
| senior | 24 | 48 % |
| n/a | 1 | 2 % |

## Tools — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Excel | 6 | 12 % |
| 2 | Microsoft Office | 3 | 6 % |
| 3 | Microsoft Word | 3 | 6 % |
| 4 | SAP | 3 | 6 % |

## Hard skills — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | root cause analysis | 23 | 46 % |
| 2 | failure analysis | 22 | 44 % |
| 3 | mechanical troubleshooting | 20 | 40 % |
| 4 | equipment design review | 18 | 36 % |
| 5 | maintenance strategy development | 18 | 36 % |
| 6 | rotating equipment optimization | 18 | 36 % |
| 7 | rotating equipment maintenance | 6 | 12 % |
| 8 | mechanical engineering | 5 | 10 % |
| 9 | rotating equipment engineering | 5 | 10 % |
| 10 | predictive maintenance | 4 | 8 % |
| 11 | risk assessment | 4 | 8 % |
| 12 | data analysis | 3 | 6 % |
| 13 | drawing review | 3 | 6 % |
| 14 | reliability improvement | 3 | 6 % |
| 15 | vibration analysis | 3 | 6 % |

## Methods — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reliability improvement initiatives | 18 | 36 % |
| 2 | preventive maintenance | 4 | 8 % |
| 3 | predictive maintenance | 3 | 6 % |

## Responsibilities — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | issue resolution | 19 | 38 % |
| 2 | performance improvement | 19 | 38 % |
| 3 | commissioning support | 18 | 36 % |
| 4 | compliance assurance | 18 | 36 % |
| 5 | inspection support | 18 | 36 % |
| 6 | maintenance planning | 18 | 36 % |
| 7 | technical consultancy | 18 | 36 % |
| 8 | corrective action implementation | 3 | 6 % |
| 9 | technical support | 3 | 6 % |
| 10 | workshop support | 3 | 6 % |

## Regional breakdown

> **Corpus note:** 50 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.

### US (us)

32 ads.

**Top hard skills:**

- failure analysis — 62 % (20 ads)
- mechanical troubleshooting — 62 % (20 ads)
- root cause analysis — 59 % (19 ads)
- equipment design review — 56 % (18 ads)
- maintenance strategy development — 56 % (18 ads)
- rotating equipment optimization — 56 % (18 ads)
- mechanical engineering — 12 % (4 ads)
- predictive maintenance — 9 % (3 ads)
- data analysis — 6 % (2 ads)
- equipment optimization — 6 % (2 ads)

**Top tools:**

- Microsoft Excel — 9 % (3 ads)
- SAP — 9 % (3 ads)
- Microsoft Office — 6 % (2 ads)
- Microsoft Word — 6 % (2 ads)

**Seniority:** senior 66 % · mid 34 %

### UK (gb)

**Insufficient evidence** — 18 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.

### EU/DACH (de, at, ch, nl)

**Insufficient evidence** — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.


## Job title variants in the market

| Title | Ads |
|---|---|
| Rotating Equipment Specialist | 18 |
| Rotating Equipment Engineer | 12 |
| Principal Rotating Equipment Engineer | 2 |
| Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer | 2 |
| Machinery Diagnostics Field Engineer | 1 |
| Machinery Diagnostics Field Engineer / Rotating Equipment Field Engineer | 1 |
| Machinery/Rotating Equipment Engineer | 1 |
| Mechanical System Engineer | 1 |
| Product Design Engineer Rotating Equipment | 1 |
| Product Design Engineer: Rotating Equipment & CAD | 1 |
| Reliability Engineer | 1 |
| Rotating Equipment Engineer - Energy & Gas Turbines | 1 |
| Rotating Equipment Engineer - Midstream | 1 |
| Rotating Equipment Engineer - Optimize Reliability | 1 |
| Rotating Equipment Engineer - Power Plant and Commissioning | 1 |
| ROTATING EQUIPMENT ENGINEER (LEVEL DOE) | 1 |
| Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer — Oil & Gas | 1 |
| Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer: Reliability & Troubleshooting | 1 |
| Sr. Rotating Equipment Engineer | 1 |
| Sr. Rotating Equipment Engineer - Design & Construction | 1 |

Methodology: entities extracted per ad ({hard_skills, tools, methods, responsibilities, seniority}), normalized, counted as DISTINCT ads per entity; report threshold ≥ 3 ads. Headline sections in skills.md/tools.md use the stricter ≥ 20 % threshold.