Welding Engineer at an Oil and Gas Company - Vantegral Consulting

Vantegral Consulting - Our client, an Oil and Gas company, is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Welding Engineer

Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Employment Type: Contract
Industry: Oil and Gas

Job Summary

• The client is seeking a highly experienced Welding Engineer with a minimum of 10 years of hands-on experience in welding engineering and at least 5 years of experience in the oil and gas/construction environment.
• The ideal candidate must be able to support the creation of a distinct organizational culture, build a unique employer brand, facilitate it’s adoption and promotion by employees while ensuring the organization has the right talent pool that are effectively deployed, managed, rewarded and engaged in a cost effective and sustainable manner.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide Code and Standard interpretation
• Contribute to the management to support business growth.
• Mentor welder and welding Operators on the best and appropriate ways on achieving quality and acceptable welds
• Provide advice to management on welders and welding operators performance and repair rate
• Support engineering team in design analysis and material selection
• Coach and mentor quality team to ensure professionalism and proficiency. Core/Technical
• Oversee the qualification and approval of Welding Procedure Specification.
• Update Welding Procedure Specification and Procedure Qualification Record Register.
• Oversee the qualification of Welder and Welding Operator’s Performance Qualification.
• Update Welders and Welding Operators Register.
• Evaluate Welders Repair Rate and Performance.
• Review and approval of vendor and sub-contractors welding documents.
• Carryout Root Cause Analysis and Weld Failure Analysis in order to initiate and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Evaluating existing and modern welding processes, procedures, equipment and techniques for optimization purposes.
• Analyze engineering design for welding requirements.
• Advises project and Construction teams on all welding and welding consumable issues.
• Carryout and Participate in welding and welding related audits.

Qualifications
Education:

• Bachelor's degree in any Engineering field.
• Certification in any of the following or it’s equivalent:
• International Welding Engineering Certificate (IWE)
• European Welding Engineering Certificate (EWE)
• American Welding Engineering Certificate (AWE).

Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years in Welding Engineering, with at least 5 years in the oil and Gas/ Construction Establishment.
• Proficiency in the major 5 welding processes.
• Proficiency in material selection and metallurgy
• Proficiency in the use and interpretation of major IOC specification and international codes and standards.
• Proficiency in Engineering drawing interpretation, weld mapping and extraction of welding details.

Skills:

• Welding Sequence Planning
• Welding costing
• Effective Communication and Interpersonal interaction
• Blueprint interpretation
• Material selection
• Equipment Calibration
• Documentation
• In-depth understanding of various Welding Process
• Knowledge of welding codes/standards.
• Negotiation
• Conflict resolution.

Application Closing Date
3rd June, 2025.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online