Maintenance Engineer at Oilserv Limited

Job Summary

This position has the following responsibilities; TO Lead equipment maintenance, ensure optimal equipment performance at the project and all times. Participates in developing, interpreting, and implementing policies and procedures for the Maintenance to effectively support Asset reliability/availability in successful project delivery.

Responsibilities

Leadership

• Have general overview of the repair, overhaul, and modification of vehicles and equipment within the DIVISION 
• Collate required data on the activities of their team which includes but not limited to availability and reliability of equipment under them, issue all applicable reports and utilize the reports to effect improvements on equipment availability
• Improve the mean time to repair by proactively ensuring the required spares are available for their team 
• Ensures the quality of work meets the required standard and improves on the mean time between failures of repaired equipment.
• Supervise the planning and scheduling of the maintenance workloads to optimize use of resources, including personnel, time, tools, and equipment.
• Carry out periodic maintenance audit.
• Provide positive and professional leadership to Operations and Technical staff in the Oilserv Group
• Execute an effective predictive and preventive maintenance program to minimize unscheduled down time.

Core/Technical

• Exercise significantly more judgment and independence in determining the methods and techniques required to solve unusually complex maintenance and repair problems.
• Plan and improvise repair procedures, find ways to mechanically and physically adapt or alter items to fit and mesh into systems for which the items were not specifically designed, or find ways to diagnose and correct defects when existing methods and procedures do not give the desired results
• Independently determines work methods, sequences, tools, and equipment to use in making the extensive and complex repairs to the vehicles and equipment.
• Select and comply with technical manuals, illustrations, specifications, diagrams, schematics, and similar guides to make repairs and modifications according to specifications and procedures 
• Provide advice on repair, overhaul, and modification of Company vehicles and equipment.
• Recommend modifications of existing equipment and facilities and the possible replacement of existing equipment which will improve operations and reduce maintenance costs.
• Undertake  periodic measurement  of divisional   KPIs and  initiate  actions to   re-align  the KPIs  to  the divisional objectives.
• Determine the cause of malfunctions and advice the Foreman towards the repairs of a variety of heavy mobile equipment and vehicles, such as bulldozers, graders, excavators and similar heavy construction and earth moving vehicles; mobile cranes; heavy equipment; and heavy special purpose vehicles which have mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and electric systems. 
• Maintain job work orders; keep record of labor; material, parts, supplies and other records necessary in the repair and maintenance process; control and release of serviced and repair vehicles

Quality, Health, Safety & Environment

• Ensure zero LTI and Fatality while carrying out maintenance activities.
• Drive compliance with Occupational Health, Safety, Quality and Environmental Policies, processes, procedures and applicable laws/legal requirements across Oilserv business.
• Take responsibility for their health & safety and those of stake holders across Oilserv business

Requirements

• HND / B.Sc. Electrical / Mechanical Engineering
• 5 - 10 years’ experience in Asset maintenance / management