Senior CSU Mechanical / Piping Engineer at Fortis Engineering

Fortis Engineering is a solutions-driven company serving Africa’s energy, oil and gas and mining industries with expertise in civil construction, asset integrity, maintenance, procurement, fabrication, installations, and O&M — delivered with precision, resilience, and safety.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior CSU Mechanical / Piping Engineer

Location: Nigeria

Job Summary
Service type:

• Senior CSU Mechanical/Piping will be deployed by a Nigerian National.
• The Senior CSU Mech/Piping Engineer will lead the planning, execution, and delivery of commissioning and start-up activities for Mechanical and piping systems.
• Requires interfaces with engineering, construction, operations, and vendor teams to ensure successful commissioning and start-up.

Service Description

• Promote Goal Zero Safety and Quality culture and drive compliance at the worksite.
• Enforce Shell and IOGP HSE policies and procedures at Company worksites.
• Review and provide input to technical specification documents, P&IDs and other detailed engineering documents for subsea control system and other interfacing systems.
• Respond to queries and technical clarification questions from the contractor.
• Develop and implement commissioning plans for Mechanical and piping systems.
• Participate in Design Reviews, Technical Workshops, HAZID, HAZOPS and any other Meetings/reviews as may be assigned in the Scope of Work.
• Interface with existing mechanical and piping systems on the Bonga FPSO. 
• Safe, timely and efficient execution and drive progress of work scope based on project schedule.
• Develop testing protocols, commissioning and testing procedures, and operations procedures to ensure operational integrity and readiness.
• Ensure compliance with project specifications, industry standards, and safety requirements.
• Maintain and update commissioning documentation, punch lists, and handover packages.
• Witness site activities including Site Receipt Inspection, Site integration, Factory Acceptance Test, Extended Factory Acceptance Test and System Integration Test, and confirm compliance with the approved procedure.
• Work with Contractor to ensure quality issues are properly identified, documented, reported and timely dispositioned.
• Review and provide input to the Assembly and Testing Procedure, storage and preservation, Transportation Handling Instruction, Installation, and offshore Testing Procedure.
• Supervise testing, pre-commissioning, and commissioning of the subsea systems.
• Liaise with internal stakeholders, i.e., Quality, HSE, project control, engineering disciplines, planning, Information & Digital Technology, Bonga asset & operations, Wells, marine, logistic, planning aviation, subsea intervention etc. to ensure adequate support for project execution.
• Log and track lessons Learned.
• Review operation, and maintenance manuals and guidelines issued by the contractor.
• The service will involve work and travel to fabrication sites, OEM facility and producing FPSO facility in the Gulf of Guinea.

Requisite Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in an Oil and Gas related discipline such as Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering etc.
• Minimum of 10 years of work experience with at least 5 years of relevant experience working with mechanical and piping systems within the oil and gas industry.
• Good understanding and practical application of applicable Industry standards and codes.
• Practical experience working with piping and mechanical systems in an offshore environment.
• Ability to communicate, work, interface, interact and influence effectively within a multi-disciplinary team of professionals located globally.
• Knowledge of personal and process safety.
• Demonstrable project management experience, and possibly with certifications if applicable.
• Knowledge in the use of MS Office tools or similar software. Go Completions use will be an advantage.
• Strong project management, quality assurance, risk management and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Good general understanding of project procedures and requirements, construction, build and testing requirements, plant inspection, commissioning and start-up procedures.

Application Closing Date
17th September, 2025.