SPIE Oil & Gas Services (part of the SPIE Group) provides a complete range of services to some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies through its network of offices in 25 countries across Africa, the Middle-East and Asia-Pacific.

Our turnover has more than doubled in the last few years thanks to the dedication of our 4,000 employees to whom we give training, recognition, and genuine opportunities for career development. In order to support this growth, SPIE Oil & Gas Services is always seeking talented individuals to join its teams.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: SMART Room Maintenance Engineer

Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Employment Type: Temporary work contract
Contractual hours: Full time
Contract duration: TBC

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist technical/engineering advice and guidance to site personnel on the operation and maintenance of
  plant/equipment ensuring highest safety standards, a timely response to queries and minimal disruption to operations.
• Manage day to day maintenance activities within the Akpo Smart Room, ensuring adequate liaison to support the sites current
  and forthcoming activities.
• Provide site maintenance personnel with direct technical support including WO Backlogs review, and daily WO technical validation (WTA WO status removal) on SAP (UNISUP)
• Provide work direction and technical guidance, checking work/project progress, identifying resources, setting priorities and time schedules.
• Ensure planned maintenance look ahead is reviewed and prepared, balance available resources on site with forthcoming monthly PM activity.
• Anchor monthly Preventive Maintenance review process.
• Review monthly maintenance report, create and maintain action plan to keep on track of performance.
• Main Interface for site Head of Maintenance to assist with critical activities.
• Provide initial breakdown support and guidance to site team during fault finding, repair methodology, vendor requirements and materials availability.
• Review status of offline plant and equipment and ensure its availability and that standby equipment is serviceable.
• Track, report and prevent maintenance related missing achievable production.
• Manage backlog of maintenance activities.
• Make recommendations on preferred contractors and coordinate vendors, materials and equipment for planned and unplanned
  activities, monitoring and controlling manpower usage, vendor/contractor performance and expenditure. Participate, as appropriate in vendor/contractor audits.
• Identify work (in conjunction with maintenance planner) that can be liquidated in campaign type approach when critical equipment is taken offline.
• Advise on shutdown reports from a maintenance perspective to ensure appropriate actions are added and completed.
• Develop and maintain highly effective and productive relationships with internal and external contacts.
• Liaise with Tier 2 and Discipline managers for technical and contractual support.
• Proactively monitor, review and analyze plant and equipment performance using Smart Signal diagnostic tool and provide feedback to Line Management, identifying opportunities to maximize equipment performance, and by extension production performance. Also, share best practices.
• Continuously provide insights into condition asset health monitoring by collecting all vital/important performance data and also
  contextualizing asset failure data in order to generate potential failure predictions that can improve production and plant
  availability.

Requirements

• First Degree in Mechanical Engineering is preferred. Other engineering disciplines would also be considered.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in maintenance of oil and gas process facilities / equipment, including rotating equipment, lifting equipment, instrumentation and electrical equipment.
• Good knowledge of operational site activities
• Good knowledge of onshore/offshore process and production systems
• Experience of working in an offshore environment
• Experience of a collaborative working environment will be an advantage
• Must be very analytical with ability to propose innovative and workable alternatives or solutions
• Strong communication and interface management skills to work efficiently in transverse mode.
• Must have strong reliability centered attitude to maintenance follow-up.

Profile:

• Continuously optimize failure thresholds of running equipment from the connected and collected data records in the SMART Room dashboards and keeping the real-time monitoring as close and tuned to running site conditions.
• Key actor to the 2 weeks look-ahead planning (2WLAP) followed by SMART Room, and the integrated campaigns working with Smart Room Planner.
• Responsible for the follow-up and reporting of all safety critical elements performance on site and release of the weekly Safety Outlook and Inhibitions report, as well as weekly summary slides for the FOPS Performance meeting.
• Together with the SMART Room Production engineer, alternate the issuance of weekly GHG Emissions performance report and Energy Efficiency performance report for the asset.
• Contribute to the development of strategies for the maintenance, inspection and operation of plant/equipment to ensure that all
  plant and equipment meet verification and compliance requirements.
• Develop and maintain good working relationships with site personnel through effective communication and by making regular

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.