Maintenance Reliability Manager at WTS Energy - Lagos

WTS Energy provides recruitment and manpower services for the global oil and gas and energy industries. We supply engineers and consultants to our clients’ projects and operations, and perform employment outsourcing services such as workforce management in oil and gas regions around the world. Our clients are based globally and offer a wide range of vacancies in oil, gas and energy. WTS Energy places suitable engineers and consultants in any phase of Oil and Gas projects and in all skills relating to: Geoscience, Drilling Management and Well Services, Facilities, (FEED) Engineering, Construction, Pipeline, Subsea, Commissioning and Start Up and Operations and Maintenance. WTS Energy operates globally with offices in 14 countries and is operational in over 50 countries.

WTS Energy provides recruitment and manpower services for the global oil and gas and energy industries.

WTS Energy is recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Maintenance Reliability Manager
Job Code: WTABO03930

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job description Maintenance Reliability Manager
WTS Energy is looking for Maintenance Reliability Manager to join the team of a major Oil & Gas Operator and their operations in Nigeria. This is a rotational job, 6/2, based in Lagos.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage all offshore and onshore maintenance planning, support, inspection, shutdown activities and integrity of fixed assets in order to deliver unit availability and reliability, required to maintain production within company and governmental guidelines.
• Responsible for ensuring that the Maintenance and Reliability section has a clearly defined strategy, structure and appropriate processes in place to provide the correct level of support for the management of a wide variety of maintenance, reliability, inspection, repair, risk assessment, and corrosion management technologies to ensure that the Maintenance & Asset Integrity Management Programs are executed with optimal effectiveness.
• Demonstrate lead management commitment to the HSSE Policies and to the HSE MS.
• Actively participate in all HSE initiatives to support the delivery of zero accidents and incidents.
• Manage interfaces and work collaboratively with the other departments such as Facilities, Asset Management, SCM, HSE and contractors.
• Identify and deliver improvements in policy, strategy and efficiency of maintenance, integrity, engineering and related HSE processes/activities to optimize maintenance/operational life cycle costs in line with strategies and KPI’s.
• Manage the planning, implementing and co-ordinating Asset Integrity Management Systems, Corrosion Management & annual inspection programme of onshore & offshore assets liaising with Operations, Asset Management, HSE and Facilities.
• Develop application and fully implement risk and reliability management techniques, like RBI, RCM and IPF.
• Responsible for the 5-year Integrity plan i.e. Hardware Barrier Reviews and FAIRs.
• Provide Technical Authority support for discipline engineering, relevant maintenance disciplines and projects, and manage change control. Maintain healthy and competent capability of TAs.
• Development, implementation and maintenance of engineering and maintenance procedures and management • Develop where needed and implement risk based inspection programs to improve asset integrity with a strong focus on safety, cost containment and integrity.
• Develop asset integrity conditioning monitoring strategies and programs for loss containment purposes including corrosion monitoring and all issues, which have potential to impact asset integrity, including equipment/hardware, process/procedures, operational business systems, verification/ assurance and personnel competences.
• Develop Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to track program performance and KPMI (Key Parameters for Mechanical Integrity) Program where applicable for the Business Area.
• Maximize fixed equipment uptime to optimize shutdowns and extend turnaround intervals in compliance to regulatory requirements and identify resources to support troubleshooting of fixed equipment recurrent problems and apply root case analysis (RCA) practices to equipment failure investigations.
• Support the implementation of production uptime programs including Preventive Maintenance (PM) and Predictive Maintenance (PdM).

Lead the Degradation Manuals Program:

• Ensure adequate, consistent working documents are in place for all plants and equipment
• Ensure Asset Integrity Engineers have ownership of their Degradation Manuals
• Recruit, mentor, and develop national staff with a view to progressively advance the nationalisation of the Company’s staff in country.

Requirements Maintenance Reliability Manager

• Engineering degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Corrosion or Metallurgy.
• 20+ years’ experience required in the oil & gas industry both offshore and onshore.
• Experience in West Africa is a must.

Familiarity with and understanding of:

• Maintenance and Asset integrity management at a senior management level
• Strong knowledge of relevant regulations, codes, standards and maintenance planning
• Knowledge and experience in Pressure vessel, pipeline and storage tank integrity management
• Strong Managerial, communication and organisational skills are essential. Presentation skills and ability to develop staff.
• Able to influence people, must be flexible and able to multi-task.

Terms & Conditions Maintenance Reliability Manager

• Based in Lagos, will be required to travel to all Company’s work locations onshore and offshore.
• Rotation 6 weeks on/2 weeks off.
• Contract renewable every year.

Application Closing Date
10th June, 2014

How to Apply
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