Senior Integrity Engineer - VR/26946

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Status: Permanent
Location: Kingswells, Aberdeen
Rate: Available Upon Request

Currently recruiting for an experienced Senior Integrity Engineer on a permanent staff basis for an E&P company based in Kingswells, Aberdeen. The post holder will actively manage the integrity of pipelines, pipework, pressure vessels, risers and ancillary equipment associated with the company’s North Sea region assets.

    

Reporting to the Integrity Technical Authority, the Senior Integrity Engineer will have the following main duties and responsibilities:

  • Ensuring the integrity of the pressure system infrastructure and facilities are actively managed with a view to continuous improvement by supporting and facilitating the implementation of the Topsides and Subsea Integrity Management Strategy.
  • Actively participating in the Topsides and Subsea Integrity Management system. Participating in and approving the RBI assessments, approving Written Schemes of Examination, and ensuring the inspection requirements are defined prior to issuing to the Senior Inspection Engineers.
  • Actively participating in the assessment of anomalies arising from inspections, corrosion and degradation to ensure equipment retains the ability to operate safely with minimal impact on operations and the environment.
  • Providing technical and integrity engineering support to projects from initiation through to development, engineering, construction, operation and decommissioning.
  • Providing technical integrity support, communication and reporting with third parties.
  • Actively participating in the Integrity Verification Scheme to ensure integrity related issues affecting pressure system and ancillary equipment performance are proactively addressed.
  • Actively participating in and supporting regulatory inspections of company assets.
  • Acting as Deputy TA within asset in accordance with agreed / approved responsibility matrix.
  • Advising and assisting Asset Management with respect to all activities impacting technical integrity, planning and budgeting for integrity management and monitoring activities associated with the topsides pressure system and pipelines subsea infrastructure.
  • Preparing and updating Pressure System Integrity Management Strategies and supporting documents, including Equipment Registers, Risk Matrices and Risk-Based Assessments.
  • Supporting the implementation of the Pressure System Integrity Management strategies.
  • Ensuring Written Schemes of Examination / Risk-Based Inspection Schemes are developed and are in place and are actively managed to verify assumptions and ensure that emerging damage mechanisms are identified and effectively mitigated.
  • Reviewing inspection findings and assessing the impact of any topsides pressure system degradation and subsea pipeline degradation (including free spans, buckling, on-bottom stability, trawl damage and fouling by ocean detritus etc). This may include the requirement to be on standby to review in-line inspection findings and undertake assessment activity while ROV / DSV remains on station.
  • Proactively managing, or ensuring delegated person actively manages, all anomalies through sentencing and prioritisation, based on consequence and probability of failure (CoF and PoF), and actively managing to close out.
  • Participating in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and failure investigations and supporting close-out of actions raised to prevent recurrence.
  • Proactively supporting the definition of specifications and requirements for material selection and Management of Change (MoC) to improve performance. Drafting and issuing project initiation Scope of Requirements documents. 
  • Supporting the update of Integrity Risk Assessments, where necessary (e.g., post inspection).
  • Maintaining pressure system integrity assurance databases.
  • Understanding and managing the impact of ageing asset infrastructure.
  • In collaboration with all disciplines within the Integrity Management function, reporting the integrity status to Senior Management through quarterly and annual reports.
  • Providing technical support as required. Conducting periodic audits of the integrity management process for pressure systems and pipelines.
  • Attending Asset Meetings and appraise host installation management of topsides pressure system, pipeline, riser and subsea structures integrity status and threats to integrity / emergent hazards. Also, providing early warning of emergent hazards and threats to safe operation of the host installation.
  • Managing, supporting and proactively engaging with Pressure System and Pipeline Integrity Management vendors.
  • Providing interface with ICP in enactment of verification activity and manage the close out of any subsequent verification anomalies relating to corrosion (SCR / DCR / PFEER / PSR).

            

Experience / Qualifications:

  • A relevant engineering degree qualification would be preferred.
  • Chartered Engineer status, or working towards, would be preferred.
  • Current / valid offshore certification would be preferred.
  • Previous and extensive experience in a similar Senior Integrity Engineer type role, 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.

             

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