Senior Engineer, Rotating Equipment

Job Purpose

Provide technical expertise in the maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, overhaul, and shutdowns to maintain rotating equipment effectively and efficiently to achieve a high degree of availability, reliability, and integrity for plant production.

Key Accountabilities

Maintenance Planning, Execution and Expertise

• Supervise the installation, maintenance, repair, troubleshooting, and modification activities of rotating equipment in the plant to ensure safe and efficient services.
• Review preventive maintenance plans/schedules and prepare task lists/maintenance programmes for rotating equipment in the plant and supervise the execution of such programmes.
• Provide guidance and advice on actions to be taken on chronic problems, and review requirements for major repair and spares replacements to ensure that all equipment is in accordance with internationally recognized engineering standards.
• Participate in risk assessment exercises and prepare recommendations and guidelines to address the mitigations and controls.
• Ensure availability of spares, coordinate and follow-up new material orders. Create new proposals for stocking spares (PFS) mainly for new equipment, create item change requests, spare parts control, and delete unwanted inventories from the stock.
• Prepare new maintenance procedures, method statements for new activities, and schedule long-term activities as per plant shutdown schedules.
• Plan and coordinate maintenance activities with other departments and sections to optimize the utilization of section manpower and to plan and control the major and minor shutdown activities and expenditures.
• Provide technical support for development, implementation, and commissioning of new projects in mechanical design and specifications to optimize costs and ensure compliance with applicable standards and best practices.
• Prepare new plant change requests (PCR), study the proposed PCR for implementation, and work out plans and schedules for implementing them.
• Participate in HAZOP review and SIL validation meetings.
• Carry out studies for major rotating equipment frequent failures and provide recommendations.
• Participate in root cause analysis (RCA) for incidents related to rotating equipment and provide findings and recommendations.

Supervision

• Plan, supervise, and coordinate all activities in the assigned area to meet functional objectives.
• Train and develop the assigned staff on relevant skills to enable them to become proficient on the job and deliver the respective functional objectives.

Budgets

• Provide input for preparation of the functional budgets and assist in the implementation of the approved budget and work plans to deliver functional objectives.
• Investigate and highlight any significant variances to support effective performance and cost control.

Policies, Systems, Processes & Procedures

• Implement approved section, team, and department policies, processes, systems, standards, and procedures in order to support execution of the work programs in line with company and international standards.

Performance Management

• Contribute to the achievement of the approved performance objectives for the function in line with the company performance framework.

Innovation and Continuous Improvement

• Design and implement new tools and techniques to improve the quality and efficiency of operational processes.
• Identify improvements in internal processes against best practices in pursuit of greater efficiency in line with best industry standards in order to define intelligent solutions for issues confronting the function.

Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge & Skills

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent professional qualification.

Minimum Experience & Knowledge & Skills

• Eight years of experience in engineering and maintenance of rotating equipment within a large industrial organization, preferably in the oil and gas industry.
• Extensive experience in rotating equipment design, engineering, construction, maintenance, and operation in the oil and gas industry.
• Familiarity with international design codes and standards, with the ability to prepare design, procurement, construction, (pre) commissioning, and hand-over specification packages for rotating equipment.
• Familiarity with the capabilities and shortcomings of major rotating equipment manufacturers, and a proven track record of conducting technical and commercial negotiations with them.
• Knowledge of HSE procedures and practices.
• Planning and organising, scheduling and coordinating, checking, examining, and recording skills.