Senior Engineer, Rotating Equipment & Machinery at Amaiden Energy Nigeria

Description

• Provide technical support to the Production Operations & Maintenance department, to increase machinery availability and reduce cost.
• Participate in RCA of machinery systems to determine root cause failure and recommend improvements to eliminate future failures.
• Improve the safety, reliability and efficiency if plant machinery through the application of engineering knowledge in the recommendation of low cost solutions to maintenance problems.
• Champion reliability of rotating equipment in assigned areas by promoting training, presentations and other activities to keep awareness high.
• Evaluate condition of machinery, predict life, through the use of vibration monitoring and associated techniques to troubleshoot and predict impending failures of rotating equipment in order to avoid secondary damage and suggest maintenance intervals to meet requirement.
• Utilize and/ or propose guidelines for monitoring the performance of the preventive maintenance programs/strategies.
• Participate and encourage the use of the CMMS tool for machinery strategies/routine/procedures and data storage.
• Will be required to travel to field locations as and when required to integrate with the field teams.
• Provide contractual services cover to support machinery maintenance activities with the area of responsibility.
• Continually review all spares and stock requirements/usage within the field to support the Production & Maintenance requirements Advice the Senior Engineer, Machinery with regards to requirements/changes.
• Development of asset replacement plan for aging equipment and associated sparing and maintenance.
• Responsible for providing the CM program for field locations, trending data and advising on actions from findings.
• Monitor and assess the training needs of mechanical technicians.
• Develop on-the-job mechanical training and assessment matrices and manual personally or via 3rdparties.
• Mentor and train other Maintenance technicians/resources in all Mechanical and Machinery related discipline and knowledge.
• Support the Management of Change (MoC) process and encourage compliance.

Job Requirements
Educational Qualification:

• Associate degree (HND), Bachelors or equivalents in Mechanical Engineering (a science or engineering discipline) with a minimum of 5 years dedicated reciprocating compress or experience.

Professional Qualification:

• Membership of an Engineering institute is desirable

Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in oil & gas with minimum 5 years field O&M
• Knowledge of MIE maintenance/operations is required

Functional/Technical Experience:

• An in-depth knowledge of oil &gas compression installation, commissioning, operations and maintenance.
• In depth knowledge of rotating machinery and parts: Ariel Compressors, Catapillar engines, Sulzer pumps, Solar engines, etc
• Hands-on experience in gas compressors and engines
• Understanding of industry best practices of Production field operations (onshore and offshore), material sparing philosophy, procurement, CMMS and Logistics processes.