The Senior Inspection Engineer will be in charge of providing technical / engineering advice and support to maintenance and inspection activities in structural and civil engineering.  The FPSO is a late life asset, therefore, there is an emphasis on ensuring the ongoing integrity of the asset.

The Senior Inspection Engineer will have the following main duties and responsibilities:

• Providing technical leadership to a team of Inspection Engineers onshore and offshore, with responsibility for providing work direction and technical guidance, checking work / project progress, identifying key inspection competencies, setting priorities and time schedule.
• Ensuring that all inspection reports are properly validated by Onshore Inspection Team.
• Supporting and providing relevant justification for derogation or deferral requests.
• Providing specialist technical / engineering advice and guidance to site / offshore personnel on the operation, maintenance and inspection of plant / equipment. Ensuring highest safety standards, a timely response to queries and minimal disruption to operations.
• Encouraging the reporting of all incidents, ensuring that incidents are investigated and action incident close-outs as appropriate.
• Conducting ad-hoc technical surveys on site / offshore and at vendor / repair locations. Providing detailed technical reports, identifying problems and solutions and ensuring optimum performance from contractors.
• Ensuring all relevant inspection procedures and documentation are maintained in an accurate and current status and are available on request.
• Preparing / reviewing scopes of work and economic justification for modifications, ensuring they are correctly engineered, documented and reported, and that all inspection activities / modifications are implemented in accordance with statutory / company standards and correctly closed-out.
• Preparing / reviewing scopes of work or work packs for vendor services, ensure their quality / exhaustivity. Making recommendations on preferred contractors and co-ordinating vendors, materials and equipment for planned and unplanned activities.  Monitoring and controlling manpower usage, vendor / contractor performance and expenditure.  Leading, as appropriate, in vendor / contractor audits.
• Undertaking in-depth analysis / studies of problems and recommend longer-term solutions and / or options and make recommendations to line management for approval.
• Ensuring that all activities are carried out in a safe and effective manner.
• Contributing to the development of plant / equipment monitoring tools and strategies.
• Contributing to the development of strategies for the inspection and operation of plant / equipment to ensure that all plant and equipment meets verification and compliance requirements.
• Ensuring that inspection activities are appropriately prioritised within operations maintenance plans.
• Technical assessment of planned inspection change requests and technical justification deferrals of CAT A maintenance / inspection PMs.
• Applying LEAN process to optimise inspection in accordance with the company minimum maintenance guidelines (OPSFORM300).

Experience / Qualifications:

• A relevant engineering degree qualification would be preferred.
• Applicants should hold relevant inspection qualifications, such as CSWIP / Plant Inspection Level 3.2.
• Previous experience in a similar onshore-based Senior Inspection Engineer type role, directly within the North Sea oil and gas industry, is essential.
• Previous experience in a similar role, directly with an E&P company / operator, would be preferred.
• Previous offshore / site experience is essential.
• Applicants should have significant knowledge of offshore / terminal plant and associated process, equipment and technologies.

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