Fabric Assurance Engineer at Dover Engineering Limited

Job Purpose / Objective

• To provide technical support and assurance on civil plant and infrastructure, maintenance and projects, ensuring that fabric designs, specifications and QA/QC programs comply with applicable industry standards for integrity and fitness of purpose, and that existing facilities are inspected and maintained to statutory industry standards, to realize and sustain value for Company.

Basic functions & Principal Responsibilities:

• Assists in the identification and development of fabric scope of work for campaigns, turnarounds/shutdowns, and routine activities as directed by the Senior Engineer.
• Provide QA support for fabric-related activities on shutdowns/turnarounds & routine maintenance execution to conform to relevant standards and achieve high integrity.
• Drive fabric maintenance lessons learnt input in the database and fabric condition and repair history in PIMS and CMMS for all critical tags highlighting trends to aid modification & planning as part of fabric systems improvement.
• Develop and update procedures and work instructions relevant to fabric and other civil.
• Maintains the QA/QC records/documents on projects, SDs & routine maintenance execution.
• Support provision of technical assurance by reviewing comments and steer on concept selections, detailed engineering designs and post design challenge resolutions for maintenance/campaigns/Turnarounds/projects. Deliver high levels of quality and customer support through reviews and timely response to RFI, RFQ, ERMT as per the SLA
• Proactively seeks out, intervenes and reports HSSE issues within and beyond area of influence.
• Contribute to Management of Change to fabric systems via design checks to affirm proposed modifications are technically feasible and appropriately detailed, ensuring additional execution/project deliverables like as-built documentation, are updated within approved processes for asset integrity, safety, and traceability. Facilitates RCM studies to determine the best applicable Inspection & Maintenance strategy for civil assets and share outcome
• Support Civil Assets Improvement: -Civil PMRs execution, RCM studies & IFR/w-IMS reviews
• Identify and issue important T.R.A.I.N to manage civil infrastructures to mitigate threats and optimize opportunities
• Participate in risk-based assessment process and provide fabric systems expertise and effectively interact with multi-disciplinary team or other groups.
• Undertake or co-ordinate failure investigations, as assigned, into coating failure and corrosion issues in accordance with prescribed or approved failure investigation procedures.
• Attend TAR meetings, AAR meetings, Asset Integrity meetings and technical reviews as required and maintain appropriate levels of contact with asset teams and third parties to ensure an effective fabric integrity service.

Job requirements

Education:

• B.Sc./B.Eng. degree in engineering (preferably in civil engineering)
• NSE/ COREN registration will be added advantage

Experience:

• 10 years post-graduation experience in fabric systems application & maintenance

Technical/Business Skills:

• Can capably monitor safety ensuring HSSE aspects are addressed.
• Can ably assess and analyze problems using the FMEA methodology to identify alternative solutions
• Site Challenge Resolution & QA/QC implementation. Can independently conduct inspections (material, field, assets etc.) to identify and recommend solutions to civil/fabric related issues
• Can confidently provide the specifications and material selection for fabric systems (i.e. PFP, thermal, cryogenic etc.) to suit various operating conditions and regularly liaise with stakeholders in Process and MMI.
• Able to describe the main degradation mechanisms and protection systems for steel, identifying the corrosion processes and participate in defining and specifying the appropriate corrosion protection system.
• Can independently use all fabric measuring tools/equipment for field and shop measurements
• Good attention to details
• Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP) Leve 2 certification

Interpersonal Skills:

• Teamwork, Dependability, Resilience, Adaptability, Communication, Collaboration, Innovative.

Competencies:

• Differentiate rust grades, surface preparation grades and coating defects. Determine coating failure modes and repair methods
• Apply the functions of the constituent elements of paint systems for various range of materials and operating conditions. Contribute to QA/QC plans for coating application.
• Contribute to the economic design of insulation systems and have a sound understanding of industry codes/standards (DEP, CINI, ASTM, ISO, etc) and available materials and which would meet the business needs.
• Review fabric design on PEFS/ISOs for a major fabric maintenance activity or greenfield project. Be fully aware of (and preferably certified with) CINI, Fabric DEP, SSPC, NACE and ICORR content.
• Participate in defining the various fireproofing requirements for the range of operating conditions in a typical oil and gas plant.
• Apply inspection and test plan (ITP) during fabric scope execution
• Knowledgeable and adept in applying pertinent standards, codes, and regulations in civil and structural engineering