Reliability & Engineering Performance Engineer at Egbin Power Plc

Job Identification: 332

Job Summary

• The primary role of the Reliability & Engineering Performance Engineer is to participate in ensuring that risk-based reliability processes are undertaken in decision-making for the improvement of technical and commercial health of the power generation assets.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Participate in assessing and managing risks.
• Participate in defining and managing risk management processes and procedures.
• Assist to identify and assess risks arising from power generation activities.
• Identify improvements needed to working practices and procedures.
• Monitor the progress and impact of improvement actions.
• Plan and implement improvements to the quality of AM processes.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of process improvements.
• Assess asset condition and performance against AM strategy and objectives.
• Analyze the progress, impact and effectiveness of asset performance corrective actions.
• Identify lessons learned and adjust policies and procedures accordingly.
• Identify and monitor relevant legal, regulatory and technical requirements for the safe operation of the plant.
• Develop effective policies and procedures to make sure requirements are met.
• Assess how policies and procedures are put into practice and provide support.
• Investigate the root cause of asset or system failures or incidents.
• Make effective use of ‘lessons learned’ information from incidents.
• Develop overview reports of risk/opportunity status for management, implement and manage risk management plans utilizing the Company’s risk management standards.
• Safeguarding the earning capability of the plant and asset by highlighting the potential impacts on the plant's performance.
• Perform independent research reviews, studies and analysis in support of risk management projects and programmes.
• Use risk management tools and processes, to conduct engineering risk evaluation of existing infrastructure.
• Assess the risk of core damage and/or loss of primary containment integrity resulting from equipment failures, human errors and/or phenomena such as flooding, fires and other environmental impacts.
• Conduct analysis such as process risk mitigation, new technology adoption, and human factors.
• Develop and drive a comprehensive technical risk management plan that will anticipate reliability-related and non-reliability-related safety risks that could adversely impact personnel or plant operations.
• Highlight possible engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other equipment problems relating to capacity, quality, safety, or regulatory compliance that adversely affect operations.
• Develop and maintain a repository of technical risk assessments to support risk management planning and strategic decision-making.
• Develop and assess the impact of the technical human capital risk such as (knowledge of plant, manpower risk, and training gap risk) and implement the process for regular status reviews.
• Conduct Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA).
• Evaluate the reliability potential of alternative engineering designs and solutions.

Data Privacy & Protection:

• Implement data protection policies and practices of Egbin Power Plc.
• Ensure compliance with the NDPR and other data protection laws, and data protection policies.
• Undertake Data Protection Impact Assessment as applicable to curb the risk during data processing operations.

QHSE:

• Ensure awareness, understanding and application of QHSE policy and application of departmental objectives
• Ensure awareness of the Integrated Management System (ISO 9001:2015, 14001:2015 &45001:2018) and the implications of not conforming with the requirements.
• Understand and identify hazards, risks, environmental aspects and Impacts as it is related to their jobs.

Requirements
The minimum requirements for the role are:
Core Skills:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Instrumentation or Mechanical Engineering
• Minimum of 6 years experience in Power Utilities, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production or any asset-intensive industry; five of which would have been spent in Risk and Reliability Engineering.
• Knowledge in Risk and Reliability Management (RRIM)
• Independent certification/training by an accredited body relating to Risk and Reliability Engineering e.g. CMRP, IRM, etc.
• Knowledge in any two following areas: Maintenance, Operation, Design Engineering, Asset Integrity, and Technical Assurance.

Language skills:

• Fluent in English language

Soft Skills:

• Computer knowledge
• Conversant with usual business suites (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Awareness of in-house tools: Maximo, etc.

Personal qualities:

• Rigor and critical sense, open-minded, keen to knowledge sharing.
• Leadership and strong listening/communication skills.
• Team working