Valve Engineer

Petrofac; Aberdeen City; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Petrofac is seeking a Valve Engineer to support maintenance planning, valve requests, and field issues for NS regional assets, working within BP relationships and ensuring high-quality outputs.

The role includes PSV RBI reviews, valve system management, and driving improvements in contract management and MOL/Inventory processes, while complying with BP procedures in a hybrid office setting.

Qualifications

• High education in a technical discipline or relevant field.
• Preferred degree with extensive experience resolving issues with isolation valves onshore/offshore oil and gas.
• Familiarity with API/ASME standards relevant to valves.

Responsibilities

• Understand maintenance planning and demand management for NS regional assets.
• Manage valve request system (VRS) and workflow for asset demands.
• Chair bi-weekly progress meetings with assets and BP’s valve management contractor.
• Approve equipment repairs/disposals for the region and act as focal point for BP assets.
• Conduct PSV RBI reviews and support contract management improvements.
• Provide input to materials master, BoMs, stocking strategy, and inventory.

Skills

Valve engineering

Maintenance planning

Isolation valves

API/ASME standards

Customer focus

Teamwork

Communication

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

Office software

Technical software

Job description

Petrofac is a leading international service provider to the energy industry, with a diverse client portfolio including many of the world’s leading energy companies. We design, build, manage, and maintain infrastructure for our clients. We recruit, reward, and develop our people based on merit, regardless of race, nationality, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status or disability. We value our people and treat everyone who works for or with Petrofac fairly and without discrimination. The world is re-thinking its energy supply and energy security needs and planning for a phased transition to alternative energy sources. We are here to help our clients meet these evolving energy needs. This is an exciting time to join us on this journey. We support flexible working requests and have adopted a hybrid approach for most of our office-based roles. We ask employees to be present in the office at least three days per week. Are you ready to bring the right energy to Petrofac and help us deliver a better future for everyone?

JOB TITLE: VALVE ENGINEER

Key Responsibilities

• Understand current maintenance planning and demand management for the NS regional assets.
• Managing the valve request system (VRS) and workflow to support the operational demands of the assets.
• Chair bi-weekly work progress meetings with the assets and BP’s valve management contractor.
• Rationalization and approval of equipment repairs and disposals for the region.
• Act as a focal point for assigned BP assets for valve-related equipment issues in the field.
• Conducting PSV RBI review and approval.
• Support Contract Accountable Manager (CAM) and improve contract management for the provision of valve management services.
• Instigation, support, and approval of valve-related eMoC, EQ, and IRIS actions.
• Providing break-in TAR support as and when required.
• Identify and realize efficiency improvement opportunities
• Provide functional input in the region to support the BP Central Material Master Improvement Program, BoMs, stocking strategy, price book, critical sparing strategy, preservation plan, and inventory.
• Leading by example and maintaining high standards within a hugely diverse environment.
• Sharing best practice when undertaking all work scopes and ensuring that a high-quality output is delivered consistently
• Support compliance with BP procedures.
• Attend supplier meetings as required.
• Attend BP Meetings as required

Essential Qualifications And Skills

• High education in technical discipline / relevant field, e.g. modern mechanical apprenticeship, national qualification, degree, etc.
• preferred degree with extensive experience resolving technical issues associated with Isolation Valves used Onshore and Offshore in the Oil and Gas Industry
• Good experience in using various office and technical computerised applications
• Familiarity with international standards (API, ASME, etc) applicable to valves and their service requirements
• Familiarity with valve-related technical specifications
• Be customer-focused, both internal and external
• Enthusiastic and driven to seek excellence and improvements on the different projects, they were engaged
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment
• Be capable of group communication to direct and coordinate the maintenance of the entire facility.