Head of Technical Services at a Large Consulting Company - Adexen Recruitment Agency

Adexen was mandated by a large consulting company to recruit an experienced individual for their operations within the capacity below:

Job Title: Head of Technical Services

Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Seniority: Director
Job Category: Engineering and Production
Employment Type: Full time

Responsibilities

• This senior management level role aims to provide capability across the spectrum of Enterprise Asset Management, Intelligent Asset Management, Engineering, Safety and Information Technology, with a broad geographical footprint that will support oil and gas, manufacturing and utility industry assets around the world.
• This ambition is planned to be achieved by: shaping future ways of working through the introduction of new cutting-edge technologies, best practice processes, digital thinking, including real-time datadriven end-to-end optimization and risk management ; providing performance feedback while propelling disciplined execution to deliver reliable and flagship results; helping the organization build improvement plans and provide support to execute them
• Interface with Project Managers, Operational Readiness and Assurance (ORA), Discipline, Maintenance, Reliability, Operations engineers, Spares Coordinator and Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) to deliver Maintenance Management System from Project to Asset Operations
• Coordinate multiple interfaces (IMIT, IT, CMMS users) to ensure aligned roll out of various connected portfolio applications towards operate phase
• Accountable for Asset Register and responsible for completeness, accuracy and integrity of Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) master data including MOC of data changes in project phase
• Accountable for the design and deployment of Master Data Governance (MDG) applications to be adopted during operations for managing plant assets and other related master data  
• Responsible to setup and maintain assets that require regular preventative maintenance or inspection ensuring it has the correct maintenance and safety standards/procedures applied against them
• Develops and recommends procedures for best practices with use of CMMS
• Ensure proper management of data changes between EPC, IM &IT, CMMS Build team and Contracts and Procurement (C&P) data team
• Recommend best setup of Key Data Structure to accurately reflect asset organization setup and business processes in CMMS
• Eliminate and simplify requirements, recognizing where specific requirements are excessive in comparison to other projects for CMMS
• Apply client’s approved standards to deliver Asset Information requirements to the Capital Project and Operations
• Technical Expertise in writing maintenance procedures and workflows
• Develop performance-based culture across all disciplines working towards specific global KPIs
• Anchor benchmark reviews and audits to drive compliance and improvements

Desired Skills and Experience

• University Engineering Degree in Mechanical, Instrumentation, Electronics or Electrical
• Required 10+ years operational experience in engineering/technical jobs
• Experience in Plant Maintenance area within a Manufacturing or Upstream environment as an engineering user of CMMS, Inspection Management Systems (IMS), and Document Management Systems (DMS)
• Experience in Engineering relevant design, maintenance or analysis:
• Equipment design, analysis, decision making, troubleshooting; Reliability ; Centred Maintenance, Engineering Root Cause Analysis, or Safety, Criticality and Risk Assessment, Ishikawa Diagrams, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis, Total Quality Management, Hazard Analysis, etc.
• Experience in Engineering Projects – design of plant, plant process design, scheduling, construction, and handover  
• Experience in Technical Data and Documents management including processes and tools.
• Use and understanding of SAP Plant Maintenance(PM)/Materials
• Management(MM) modules
• Detailed grasp of the context in the use of technical data and documentation within technical data processes, physical processing assets (hardware) and associated operations
• Flexibility to move quickly across changing priorities and manage multiple Projects/Programmes
• Ability to independently, resourcefully, and creatively research and implement new solutions
• Prior work experience in an oil and gas Plant
• External lens and connectivity: able to understand how major oil and gas players can influence the external world and how they are also influenced by same.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.