Rig Maintenance & Asset Integrity Lead at Obek Group of Companies Limited

Role Overview

• The Rig Maintenance & Asset Integrity Lead is responsible for ensuring rig readiness, reliability, and compliance through robust maintenance management, certification control, and asset integrity practices. The role owns the readiness assurance process, ensuring acceptance from ME-14 is achieved through evidence-based verification, with all certifications current, preventive maintenance completed, and equipment operating to required standards.
• The successful candidate will drive the transformation of five aging rigs and associated units into a reliable, audit-ready fleet that meets client expectations, regulatory requirements, and operational performance targets. Through effective maintenance strategies, integrity management, and continuous improvement, the role ensures safe, efficient, and dependable assets ready for deployment.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic & Delivery Outcomes

• De-risk the fleet: independent condition surveys on all 8 units before any acceptance — the Group’s single largest de-risking step.
• Hold equipment-caused NPT ≤ 3% on active rigs.
• Keep reactivation scopes honest: evidenced, costed, split correctly between ME-14 capex and ME-08 opex.

Functional / Operational Responsibilities

• W5 owner: acceptance surveys and certificates, reactivation scope management, PM system, certification register, critical spares (with ME-10), preservation programs for stacked units.
• BOP stack certification and test-equipment readiness supporting Policy 2 regimes.
• Root-cause analysis on failures > 12 hrs NPT; condition feedback to ME-14.
• Redelivery surveys and dilapidation positions at charter end.

Governance, Controls & Compliance

• No operation with lapsed certification — hard stop; no documentation-only acceptances.
• PM deferrals > 30 days require DW-01 approval with risk assessment.
• MOC plus ME-14 written consent for any asset modification.

Stakeholder & Leadership Responsibilities

• ME-14 Assets (charters, capex, condition); OEMs and certification bodies; class societies and NIMASA for floating units.
• DW-02 for operations windows; ME-10 for spares and services procurement.

Required Qualifications

• B.Eng./HND Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
• Rig inspection credentials (IADC/OEM programs) preferred; lifting/pressure-systems certification competence.

Experience

• 10+ years rig maintenance including chief mechanic/maintenance supervisor time on SCR/VFD land or swamp rigs; reactivation or shipyard project experience strongly preferred.
• BOP maintenance and certification management experience.

Technical Skills & Systems

• Planned maintenance systems; drawworks/mud pumps/top drives/BOP stacks; power systems (SCR/VFD); marine systems basics; spares management; survey and certification regimes.