Senior Mechanical Engineer at Desicon Engineering Limited

About the job

• The Senior Mechanical Engineer with strong expertise in Rotary and Static Equipment to join our technical team in Port Harcourt.
• The ideal candidate will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, integrity, and optimal performance of critical mechanical equipment across operations.

Responsibilities

• Research and analyse data such as client design proposals, specifications, and manuals to determine the feasibility of design or application.
• Work with Proposal/Commercial team as well as project teams to develop a project’s scope of work, estimates, and/or schedules.
• Develop major equipment and material selection, and construction specifications.
• Ensure that all assigned activities and operations comply with applicable codes, regulations and laws.
• Provide support during the fabrication and installation phases to ensure engineering documents are followed.
• Coordinate activities with other project department involved in fabrication, operation, application, and installation or repair of various materials, products or systems.
• Provides technical direction, support and information to other engineers, designers and drafters.
• Design of pressure vessel, Shell & tube heat exchanger, Reactor, Process Column, Storage Tank
• Preparation and checking of all project deliverables including Specifications, Data Sheets, MR and TBE
• Vendor Document Review of Pressure vessel, Shell & tube heat exchanger, Reactor, Process Column, Storage Tank, Air Cooled exchanger, other static equipment
• Carry out technical evaluation of vendor offers, manage Vendor Technical discussion as well as Vendor Kick of Meeting
• Performs interdisciplinary checks as well as corresponding with vendors.
• Review ITT (Invitation to Tender) documents and technical correspondence submitted in the proposals stage, issue inquiry requisitions, review techno -commercial vendor offers.
• Prepare equipment, material and man -hour estimates.
• Review contract requirements for project execution, identify technical requirements, scope of work; review Project specifications, Process Data Sheets (PDS), Piping Instrumentation Diagrams (P & IDs), Plot plans,
• Equipment Layout Drawings, and other relevant documents.
• Establish contract review criteria, identify and resolve discrepancies and divergences from original proposal through the instigation of technical queries to projects /client.
• Review Project Design Basis, Prepare equipment Design Basis, Mechanical data sheets.
• Prepare Inquiry Requisitions, Purchase Requisitions; participate in the technical evaluation of vendor offers, preparation of Technical Bid Evaluations (TBE), review vendor drawings and documents.
• Supervise and groom Junior Mechanical Engineer to develop his technical knowledge, skills and competencies in order to produce potential talent for future business needs

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline
• 7 + years experience in Mechanical engineering design (onshore & offshore) within the Oil and Gas EPC/Petrochemical Design Engineering (or related) environment. Experience in the design and management of storage tank will be an added advantage
• Consistently demonstrates professional skills in structuring assigned activities, creativity, teamwork, communications, operational efficiencies, handling of a client’s changing needs, decision making, and analysing and solving problems
• Advanced analytical, problem solving, accuracy, attention to details, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to establish deadlines for the team, manage priorities, and effectively achieve the goals in fast paced environment is critical.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English is essential. Ability to foster communication within diverse cultural environments.
• Ability to plan, communicate/present concepts and reports on complex topics with the ability to persuade and influence others as needed.
• Ability to give and receive constructive feedback and to respond appropriately.
• Ability to work within time and budget constraints
• Presents self in a professional manner appropriate to the role
• Produces work of presentable quality
• Must be experienced in FEED, Detailed Engineering Design (DED), Procurement, Construction and Installation projects.
• Must be able to work independently with no supervision on feed to detail engineering projects.