Senior Project Engineer at West African Ventures

West African Ventures, an operating company of the Sea Trucks Group, was established in 2000 and is a 100% Nigerian company and a leading indigenous provider of offshore engineering, procurement, fabrication, installation and vessel charter services.

With corporate headquarters in Lagos, marine support base & shipyard in Warri, dry-dock and fabrication facilities in Onne Oil & Gas Free Zone, WAV provides excellent offshore support services to the Nigerian Oil & Gas sector.

West African Ventures is recruting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Senior Project Engineer

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Responsibilities

• Reports to the Engineering Manager (functional), Deputy Engineering Manager (functional), Project Manager (project related)
• Directs the Project/Discipline/CAD Engineers.
• Timely completion of engineering deliverables within man-hour budget
• Technical preparations for the project
• Ensuring that these preparations result into cost efficient project execution in accordance with contractual, legislative, regulatory, company, commercial requirements
• "Fitness for purpose" of project deliverables, based on contractual specifications, codes and standards
• Concept and method for fabrication, transportation, construction and installation
• Ensuring that technical concept and method is in accordance with common industrial standard practice
• Applying company’s technical expertise is to the maximum extent;
• Engineering support during execution phase of the project (fabrication, offshore)
• Preparation and maintenance of Engineering Basis
• Preparing Engineering Planning
• Coordination, planning, control and progress reporting of engineering activities for the project
• Technical liaison with Procurement QA/QC,HSE, OCM and Subcontractors
• Coordination of engineering subcontractors
• Assist QA/QC in compilation and finalisation of As-Built Records Dossier
• Adherence to Company Management System (CMS) applicable to his field of responsibility
• Proposing, stimulating and realising optimisation and improvements in his area of responsibility
• Analyse root causes of real time existing issues, document identified issues with the corresponding cause and solutions.
• Approve engineering deliverables
• Perform technical communication with Subcontractors.

Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in relevant engineering discipline
• Relevant offshore training
• Project management training
• Minimum of 10 years experience in offshore engineering, of which at least 5 years in coordinating (project) engineering.
• Practical and theoretical knowledge of offshore transportation, installation and pipelay techniques
• Good knowledge of Company Management System (CMS) ensuring compliance to quality, health, safety, environment and security (QHSES) requirements
• Good knowledge of the English language both written and spoken
• Ability to work in a team and to co-ordinate activities
• Prepared to travel and work at irregular hours
• Prepared to work offshore
• Ability to proactively plan for potential problems scenarios (Preparation of back-up plans)
• Ability to prepare Root Corse Analysis (RCA)

Application Closing Date
31st December, 2013

Method Of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their applications and CVs to: projectshr@waventures.com