Head, Engineering - Expatriate at Zigma Limited

Zigma Limited is an independent, indigenous energy company in Nigeria. Zigma’s mission, under its CEO Funmi Ogbue, is to become the first female-led ‘mini-major’ with interests in the upstream, midstream and downstream energy sectors, first in Nigeria and then in Africa more widely. Aligning with Funmi’s passion for improving local communities, Zigma will place Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) policies at the heart of its operations and aims to become a champion for the responsible development of African energy projects–at the same time as delivering significant value to its investors and partners.

Too often, women and children in Africa suffer the worst from the over-zealous exploitation of energy resources. Zigma believes this should stop. Join us on our journey.  Use the menu below to find out more about becoming a partner, an investor or a team member.  You can find out more about our current projects and partners by using the links here. Together, we will show that responsible, thoughtful behaviour can make a difference.  And deliver long term economic benefits to our investors, countries and our communities. 

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head, Engineering - Expatriate

Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers

Job Purpose

• To supervise the execution of FSO Unity Replacement Project FEED design and detailed engineering and coordinate the activities of the other related works.
• To achieve the design of FSO Unity Replacement facilities fit for purpose, Safely, on time and on budget.
• Manage a multi-disciplinary technical team at HQ and within the project efficiently.
• To anticipate the problems that may arise and proffer solutions.
• To ensure a good coordination with other entities: Transport & Installation, Field Operations, Interface, Construction, Project Management & Planning
• To provide weekly and monthly work progress to top management of the COMPANY.
• To maintain regular communication with NUIMS, NUPRC and MIMASA on the project progress.
• To efficiently monitor, manage and supervise ENGINEER to ensure that deliverables meet project referential.

Accountabilities

• Set a plan with the FEED/Engineering Contractors to have all deliverables issued on time and check detail engineering progress on a Weekly & Monthly basis.
• Set a plan with selected FSO Shipowner for design of replacement FSO in accordance with functional specification and key technical requirements of the project
• Set a plan with selected Transport and Installation contractor for detailed engineering of Transport and installation package in accordance with Company General specifications and technical requirements of the project
• Contribute to the effective development and management of project interfaces
• Organize and control regular checking of the quality of the deliverables (drawings, procedures compliance with COMPANY specifications).
• Assist project management in organizing, controlling, and checking the inter-discipline coordination and the co-ordination with other sections of the project.
• Make sure that Contractor is performing an internal co-ordination during Detail engineering and Construction.
• This also includes co-ordination with Safety, Quality Assurance, Operation and Commissioning Project team.
• Implement quality assurance procedures during Engineering activities and provide quality and progress report to Project team.
• Review and analyse planning updates including critical path for discipline related activities; review and approve progress for discipline related activities, and coordinate with Project planning engineer.
• Follow-up procurement, expediting, FAT, for discipline related activities.
• Initiate and coordinate dedicated studies and workshops with the support of discipline Engineers
• Comment on contractor documents in due time.
• Ensure good coordination of specialists working within the engineering team.
• Ensure accurate reporting of activities
• Ensure that project reviews (PR2, PR3 , HAZID, HAZOP) are performed, and all actions closed.
• Perform constructability reviews and 3D reviews and ensure action items are closed adequately.

Qualifications

• Qualification: B, Eng. (Mechanical Engineering).
• Professional Experience (number of years): 15, Experience within project: (number of years).

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.