Head – Underwater Maintenance at Shell Nigeria

Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) is the pioneer and leader of the petroleum industry in Nigeria. It has the largest acreage in the country from which it produces some 43 per cent of the nation's oil. The company's operations are concentrated in the Niger Delta and adjoining shallow offshore areas where it operates in an oil mining lease area of around 31,000 square kilometers.

As a Shell engineer you will be integral to unlocking better energy solutions. Yours will also he developing on exciting portfolio of projects, and continuing to support Shell's safe, productive and efficient operations.

Shell is looking for people with a range of expertise in Engineering disciplines Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Marine, Chemical, Offshore Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, and Applied Sciences.

Job Title: Head – Underwater Maintenance

Job Roles and Responsibilities     

• Provides and manages the Corporate (East & West) Diving and Marine maintenance service
• Manages the offshore structural and underwater services team members
• Implements the statutory and company inspection and maintenance programmes to safe guard the technical integrity of offshore facilities
• Implements the 5-yearly structural inspection, maintenance and repair plans of the offshore facilities
• Ensures all company HSE policies are understood and complied with for underwater maintenance activities
• To initiate replacement of obsolete equipment in marine equipment.
• To develop applicable MJR’s, for all relevant area teams
• Facilities improvements: Develop proposals for SPM, offshore structures units optimisation
• Technical audits: To carry out regular technical audits on production facilities to ensure safe utilisation of equipment and improve availability implement
• Data Analysis: Develop the analysis process of maintenance and condition monitoring information for marine structures against agreed targets and business needs
• Fully comply with the Contractor Management Guide where practicable
• Offshore facilities inspection, maintenance processes and standards
• Marine and export facilities lifecycle evaluation to meet business need
• Best practice implementation resulting in best class marine export facilities availability, no export loss opportunity and compliance with export targets
• Diving service contract execution
• Reduction in UOC in export marine
• Compliance with Company HSE and diving safety policies
• Compliance with SPDC maintenance strategies for SBM’s and relevant structures

Requirements

Experience

• 12 -15 years

Skill

• Recognised academic Engineering Degree in Marine/Mechanical/Civil Engineering or applied sciences.
• 10 years experience in the oil and gas industry, with at least three years in the offshore IMR field
• Experience in asset integrity management in an operation/ maintenance environment.
• Conversant with maintenance and inspection requirement of underwater substructure, pipelines, and SBM equipment.
• Conversant with the management of diver or ROV operation and the associated HSE standard and procedures.
• Ability to cascade key information to all discipline staff.
• Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with an extensive network of underwater equipment suppliers and diving contractors
• Ability to define competence standards and requirements for discipline staff

Application Closing Date
31st January, 2013

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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