JOB PURPOSE
Provide technical expertise in the maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, overhaul, and shutdowns of rotating equipment to ensure high availability, reliability, and integrity of plant production.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Maintenance Planning, Execution, and Expertise
- Supervise installation, maintenance, repair, troubleshooting, and modification activities of rotating equipment to ensure safe and efficient operations.
- Review preventive maintenance plans/schedules and prepare task lists and maintenance programs for rotating equipment, overseeing their execution.
- Provide guidance on resolving chronic problems, and review requirements for major repairs and spares to ensure compliance with international standards.
- Participate in risk assessments, and prepare recommendations for mitigations and controls.
- Ensure spare parts availability, coordinate new material orders, and manage spare parts inventory, including proposing stock levels and controlling inventory.
- Develop new maintenance procedures, method statements, and schedule long-term activities aligned with plant shutdowns.
- Coordinate with other departments to optimize manpower utilization and plan major/minor shutdown activities and expenditures.
- Support the development, implementation, and commissioning of new projects, ensuring design and standards compliance.
- Prepare plant change requests, study proposed changes, and develop implementation plans.
- Participate in HAZOP reviews and SIL validation meetings.
- Conduct studies on frequent failures of major rotating equipment and provide recommendations.
- Participate in root cause analysis (RCA) for incidents related to rotating equipment and provide findings and recommendations.
QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent professional qualification.
- Minimum of 8 years' experience in engineering and maintenance of rotating equipment, preferably in the oil and gas industry.
- Extensive experience in design, engineering, construction, maintenance, and operation of rotating equipment in the oil and gas sector.
- Familiarity with international design codes and standards, with the ability to prepare specifications for design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and hand-over.
- Knowledge of major rotating equipment manufacturers' capabilities and shortcomings, with experience in negotiations.
- Understanding of HSE procedures and practices.
- Skills in planning, organizing, scheduling, coordinating, checking, and record-keeping.