Engineering Vacancies at Deep Blue Energy Services Limited (DBESL), 12th December 2019

Deep Blue Energy Services Limited (DBESL) is a resource and solution management company that specializes in assisting international/Local companies in identifying Potential market opportunities, assisting with permits, sourcing highly skilled employees, bidding on and negotiating contracts and navigating the often complex political and policy environment of many sub Saharan African countries.

We are recruiting to fill the below positions:

Job Title: Senior Project Engineer Location: Lagos Island, Lagos Job Category: Oil & Gas Job Type: Contract Job Shift: Day Duration: 3 weeks Career Level: Manager

Purpose of position

• To deliver and maintain standard, consistent and realistic project plans reflecting the assessed risk parameters for each project.
• ‘Project Services is part of the Projects and Technology organization’s Project Management business unit. We deliver cost estimating, planning, risk management and cost engineering services throughout the full project lifecycle. We develop and deploy standard tools and global working processes and develop our people and capability at a global level.

We aim to be recognized as Key Partner for Successful Project Outcomes:

• By driving complete, transparent and earlier project management decisions, i.e. no surprises,
• Contributing to Top Quartile project performance in both upstream and downstream business,
• Being recognized by our business partners for delivering value to their business,
• Growing an agile, competent and sustainable skill pool, and
• Deliver a standard set of Project Services tools.

Principal Accountabilities

• Deliver and maintain consistent and realistic plans and control structures for major, complex projects.
• Develop the list of plans required to execute the project and their hierarchy relationship.
• Drive, manage and ensure completeness of the development of the activities, logic, resources and progress for the integrated project schedule, leading to the creation of the baseline and its subsequent maintenance.
• Instigate, develop and police the planning and progress monitoring procedures to ensure that each element of the project performs the processes timely and consistently.
• Own the overall schedule monthly progress update, forecast, critical path and trend analyses.
• Develop status reporting framework and implement throughout the planning hierarchy.
• Provide regular and comprehensive schedule status reports to Project Management.
• Review scope change requests for the impact on schedules and the critical path of the project.
• Prepare reconciliation between earlier schedules and the current schedule.
• Consolidate the impact of approved changes and any deviations from the key project targets and milestones, including productivity monitoring and “What if scenarios” to aid project management decision-making.
• Contribute to the development of contract strategies documents.
• Ensure that all contract key dates and milestones align with the overall integrated plan.
• Evaluate bid schedules and review contractor plans to support contract award negotiations and recommendations.
• Contribute to the development of the project’s risk profiles and translate these into the plans using deterministic and probabilistic analysis methods, as appropriate.
• Regularly track the schedule risk mitigation efforts, the criticality of the main paths to completion, float consumption and the release of the 50/50 schedule contingency to ensure accurate project forecasts and maintain schedule stability.
• Implement, ensure compliance and utilize the Company/Client’s standard tools and processes.
• Provide input data for and conduct benchmarking activities.
• Deliver close-out data to enable knowledge retention (lessons learned, project data compilation) at completion of work.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years oil & gas industry experience.
• Gender:  Does not matter
• Age:  25 Years 50 Years
• Highest Education:  Minimum Education University
• Degree title:  Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or related Engineering or science based discipline.
• Experience:  Minimum Experience 10 Year
• Other experience:  10 - 12 years’ work experience in the Oil and Gas Sector.
• Required Travel:  Not Required

Job Title: Commissioning Rotation Engineer Location: Lagos Island, Lagos Job Category: Oil & Gas Job Type: Contract Job Shift: Day Duration: 2 weeks Career Level: Experienced (Non-Manager)

Position Purpose

• Assist the project team in delivering a Safe & Timely project at minimum cost.

Principal Accountabilities

• Providing technical advised on different process disciplined issues encounter during the design stage, construction, pre-commissioning, and commissioning.
• Providing technical solutions on any technical query related to process engineering issues as well as practical advice based on hands-on experienced.
• As a Process Engineer will lead the start-up team during plant start-up and ensure that the plant is safely brought into operation.
• Providing a logical approach on the job for early delivery of the project by assisting in the early identification of priorities in utilities and process required for 1st Oil or 1st Gas and achieving flawless project delivery.
• Assist CSU Lead and participate in audits and reviews e.g. HAZID, HAZOP, design reviews, pre-start-up audits, etc. and make relevant recommendations.
• Provide support to construction/ commissioning teams in connection with the above.
• Ensure that timely arrangements are made for familiarization and training of asset team personnel, as necessary to implement project schedules and facilitate smooth handover from the project team to the asset team.
• Assist in writing pre-commissioning and commissioning procedures, review those prepared by Contractors and ensure that final versions reflect the requirements detailed as required. Ensure full participation and buy-in by the asset team from the earliest possible date.
• Specifically, monitor and report on the availability of process fluid with reference to the schedule for commissioning, performance tests and reliability runs.

Main Challenges:

• Be an effective Process Lead ensuring deliverables are met in a timely manner and within the agreed project cost.
• Technological challenges and applications in the work requiring enhancement of skills by learning more on new process engineering approach based on technology-driven applications applying best possible solutions based on long experienced and adopting new technological approach on the job.
• Enhancing the skills of Process Engineers by providing tutorial, technical advice, practical solutions to encountered problems based on long experienced and common sense on the job.
• Promote teamwork, and coordinate effectively with surface facilities construction teams, and asset team in order to obtain seamless tie-ins, pre-commissioning, commissioning and handover of the facilities.
• Assist in the seamless handover of all facilities to the Asset Team.

Competence:

• Well experienced in an oil and gas projects, with a deep level of expertise in a process engineering job with the good analytical and technical capability to deliver the project from design concept, construction, pre-commissioning and commissioning of the plant-based on company business plan.

Essential:

• Lead Start-Up-On-Paper session in preparation for plant start-up.
• Lead start-up team during plant start-up and ensure that the plant is safely brought into operation.
• Ensure plant stabilization and monitor process parameters during the stabilization period.
• Carry out P&ID or site review and recommend possible modifications or changes that were necessary to the engineering team.
• Providing technical support to the construction team and engineering team for any technical query.
• Prepare Nitrogen Leak Test procedure and oversee the execution of Nitrogen leak test activity.
• Participate in walk-downs, raise punch lists in collaboration with other teams and ensure closeout of the punch items.
• Work with CSU Lead to agree with the cause of action to deliver on the planned scope.
• Ensuring that equipment works to its design specification;
• Development and implementation of detailed commissioning test procedures.
• With project management experience.
• Experience in working in a multicultural environment with diverse personalities.
• Possess good interpersonal skills in order to communicate across teams and disciplines and cultural divides.
• Able to communicate effectively with indigenous and foreign nationals.
• Able to effectively and quickly build teams and collaborative relationships.
• Lead by example and inspire others to follow suit in the pursuit of excellence.
• Show empathy with others and empower others.

Essential Desirable Knowledge & Skills:

• Plant optimization and troubleshooting using simulation software
• Ensure strict adherence to the PTW system
• Prepare plant start-up procedures
• Ensure familiarization and integration of the operations team into the new facility
• The investigation, diagnosis, and rectification of faults;
• Liaising with asset and vendor engineers.
• Development of detailed commissioning reports and documentation;

Desirable:

• Good collaboration with the Engineering team to agree on design changes.
• Provide improvements to and offering advice about operational procedures.
• Assist in scheduling and coordinating work to tight deadlines.
• Providing technical advice, supervision and mentoring young engineers and technicians.
• Desirable:
• Able to demonstrate technical capability and advice for technical solutions based on long experienced on the job.
• Assist and train team colleagues to expand their experiences on different technical issues and applications on the job.
• Other Relevant Information:
• Proven ability to work in challenging environments.

Qualifications

• B.Sc in Mechanical Engineering
• HUET AND BOSIET CERTIFIED Experience
• Minimum of Eight (8) to Fifteen Years of experience

Preferred Skills:

• Good interpersonal skills
• Good communication skills
• Has a good understanding of the job in technical aspects and good analytical thinking
• Work with a minimum amount of supervision and technical common sense and can solve problems in own initiative
• Good working relationship in a diverse environment
• I can work under pressure and understand the different technical processes of the job.
• Flexible and mobile to travel to support business needs as and when required.
• To have the key ability to be able to energies other people and team members.
• Willingness and demonstrable ability to follow continued professional development.

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply

Job Title: Principal QA/QC Engineer Location: Lagos Island, Lagos Job Category: Oil & Gas Job Type: Contract Job Shift: Day Duration: 2 weeks Career Level: Experienced (Non-Manager)

Description

• To oversee all QA/QC inspection activities for all SOTP (Shallow Offshore & Terminals) projects, to ensure compliance with projects specifications, with all necessary documentation as per contractual requirements.
• Manage and execute QMS audits as per the project audit schedule and ensure effective remedial actions.
• Oversee application of QA/QC main contractor activities and deliverables at the construction sites to meet project objectives.

Quality:

• Provide QA expertise for SOTP projects
• Establish and manage the internal audit program to verify implementation of and compliance with the QMS. Identify non-compliance and ensure appropriate action is taken to address the issues identified.
• Ensure and verify implementation the Quality Management Systems in compliance with the Quality Policy, Quality Assurance Manual and applicable Standards;
• Review and approval of quality deliverables
• Review and identify where quality requirements and quality cost savings can be added and/or amended to existing projects.
• Review and approval of contractor quality assurance/quality control procedures
• Follow-up of inspection and test plans activities;
• Review and approval of welding procedures specifications, witness and approval of welding procedures qualification tests, NDT, post weld heat treatment, coating, pressure testing procedures;
• Coordinate and/or perform quality inspections and reviews of documentation on critical equipment;
• Identifies, co-ordinates and manage deployed QA/QC personnel assigned to the project team.
• Audits of Contractors facilities, equipment, quality systems;
• Audits of NDT contractors facilities in respect with NNRA safety requirements;
• Follow-up and assessment of contractor quality performance for the project duration
• Ensure that the processes for identification and correction of fabrication deficiencies (RFIs, NCRs, etc) are followed.
• Ensure that the requirements of the project’s Materials Traceability process are met;
• Manage important interfaces and work cooperatively with a variety of related disciplines, such as, but not limited to:
  • Company and Contractor SOTP projects leads;
  • Company Technical authorities
  • Third Parties inspection agencies
• Document own QA/QC activities for reference purposes.
• Review of project final quality documentation packages;
• Consider all fabrication and construction activities from a safety point of view.  Intervene in the case of clearly unsafe acts, or elevate to safety professionals, where appropriate.

Requirements

• Gender:  Does not matter
• Age:  25 Years 55 Years
• Highest Education:  Minimum Education University
• Degree Title: B.Sc in Mechanical Engineering. MSc in Mechanical Engineering (or other technical discipline) will be an advantage.
• Experience:  Minimum Experience 15 Year
• Other experience:  15 years’ experience in Quality Assurance and Control management.
• Career Level:  Experienced (Non-Manager)
• Required Travel:  Not Required

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply

Job Title: Planning Engineer Location: Lagos Island, Lagos Job Shift: Day Job Type: Contract Duration: 2 weeks Job Category: Oil & Gas Career Level: Experienced (Non-Manager)

Description

• Deliver and maintain consistent and realistic plans and control structures for SPM Change out/Refurbishment projects. Develop the activities, logic, resources and progress for the assigned project sub-elements, leading to the creation of the baseline schedule and its subsequent maintenance. Implement and maintain the status reports. Provide regular and comprehensive schedule status reports to project lead. Weekly and monthly schedule progress update, forecast, critical path and trend analyses for SPM Change out/Refurbishment projects, including any impact from interface areas.
• Overall evaluation and control of FOD, SYMP, FOT CLP and FOT/BOGT CLP project schedules and performs schedule development, maintenance and monitoring of the planning/scheduling activities with minimal or no supervisory oversight.
• Assess and incorporate the impact of approved changes and any deviations from the key project targets and milestones, including productivity monitoring and identification of alternate approaches to optimise the plan(s). Liaise with and challenge Project Engineering personnel to ensure proper understanding of the key schedule sensitivities and drivers. Contribute to the translation of the project’s risk profile into the probabilistic risk model and understand the output, including the key risk drivers for the possible range of schedule completion dates. Track the criticality of the main paths to completion and float consumption. Implement and utilise the standard tools and processes. Provide input data for and participate in benchmarking activities.
• Contribute to close-out data to enable knowledge retention (lessons learned, project data compilation) at completion of work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Relevant Science Degree
• Minimum 12 years Post-Graduation Experience, and 8 years or more Projects/Engineering Planning Experience in the Oil & Gas Industry.

Requirements:

• Gender: Does not matter
• Age: 25 years - 50 years
• Highest Education:  Minimum Education University.

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply

Job Title: Commissioning Electrical Engineer Location: Lagos Island, Lagos Job Category: Oil & Gas Job Type: Full-Time Job Shift: Day Duration: 2 weeks

Position Purpose

• Assist the project team in delivering a Safe & Timely project at minimum cost.

Principal Accountabilities

• Providing technical advised on different process disciplined issues encounter during the design stage, construction, pre-commissioning, and commissioning.
• Providing technical solutions on any technical query related to process engineering issues as well as practical advice based on hands-on experienced.
• As a Process Engineer will lead the start-up team during plant start-up and ensure that the plant is safely brought into operation.
• Providing a logical approach on the job for early delivery of the project by assisting in the early identification of priorities in utilities and process required for 1st Oil or 1st Gas and achieving flawless project delivery.
• Assist CSU Lead and participate in audits and reviews e.g. HAZID, HAZOP, design reviews, pre-start-up audits, etc. and make relevant recommendations.
• Provide support to construction/ commissioning teams in connection with the above.
• Ensure that timely arrangements are made for familiarization and training of asset team personnel, as necessary to implement project schedules and facilitate smooth handover from the project team to the asset team.
• Assist in writing pre-commissioning and commissioning procedures, review those prepared by Contractors and ensure that final versions reflect the requirements detailed as required. Ensure full participation and buy-in by the asset team from the earliest possible date.
• Specifically, monitor and report on the availability of process fluid with reference to the schedule for commissioning, performance tests and reliability runs.

Main Challenges:

• Be an effective Process Lead ensuring deliverables are met in a timely manner and within the agreed project cost.
• Technological challenges and applications in the work requiring enhancement of skills by learning more on new process engineering approach based on technology-driven applications applying the best possible solutions based on long experienced and adopting new technological approach on the job.
• Enhancing the skills of Process Engineers by providing tutorial, technical advice, practical solutions to encountered problems based on long experienced and common sense on the job.
• Promote teamwork, and coordinate effectively with surface facilities construction teams, and asset team in order to obtain seamless tie-ins, pre-commissioning, commissioning and handover of the facilities.
• Assist in the seamless handover of all facilities to the Asset Team.

Competence:

• Well experienced in an oil and gas projects, with a deep level of expertise in a process engineering job with the good analytical and technical capability to deliver the project from design concept, construction, pre-commissioning and commissioning of the plant-based on company business plan.

Essential:

• Lead Start-Up-On-Paper session in preparation for plant start-up.
• Lead start-up team during plant start-up and ensure that the plant is safely brought into operation.
• Ensure plant stabilization and monitor process parameters during the stabilization period.
• Carry out P&ID or site review and recommend possible modifications or changes that were necessary to the engineering team.
• Providing technical support to the construction team and engineering team for any technical query.
• Prepare Nitrogen Leak Test procedure and oversee the execution of Nitrogen leak test activity.
• Participate in walk-downs, raise punch lists in collaboration with other teams and ensure closeout of the punch items.
• Work with CSU Lead to agree to the cause of action to deliver on the planned scope.
• Ensuring that equipment works to its design specification;
• Development and implementation of detailed commissioning test procedures.
• With project management experience.
• Experience in working in a multicultural environment with diverse personalities.
• Possess good interpersonal skills in order to communicate across teams and disciplines and cultural divides.
• Able to communicate effectively with indigenous and foreign nationals.
• Able to effectively and quickly build teams and collaborative relationships.
• Lead by example and inspire others to follow suit in the pursuit of excellence.
• Show empathy with others and empower others.

Essential Desirable Knowledge & Skills:

• Plant optimization and troubleshooting using simulation software
• Ensure strict adherence to the PTW system
• Prepare plant start-up procedures
• Ensure familiarization and integration of the operations team into the new facility
• The investigation, diagnosis, and rectification of faults;
• Liaising with asset and vendor engineers.
• Development of detailed commissioning reports and documentation.

Desirable:

• Good collaboration with the Engineering team to agree on design changes.
• Provide improvements to and offering advice about operational procedures.
• Assist in scheduling and coordinating work to tight deadlines.
• Providing technical advice, supervision and mentoring young engineers and technicians.
• Able to demonstrate technical capability and advice for technical solutions based on long experienced on the job.
• Assist and train team colleagues to expand their experiences on different technical issues and applications on the job.

Other Relevant Information:

• Proven ability to work in challenging environments.

Qualifications

• B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering
• HUET AND BOSIET certified Experience
• Minimum of Eight (8) to Fifteen years of experience

Preferred Skills:

• Good interpersonal skills
• Good communication skills
• Has a good understanding of the job in technical aspects and good analytical thinking
• Work with a minimum amount of supervision and technical common sense and can solve problems in own initiative
• Good working relationship in a diverse environment
• I can work under pressure and understand the different technical processes of the job.
• Flexible and mobile to travel to support business needs as and when required.
• To have the key ability to be able to energies other people and team members.
• Willingness and demonstrable ability to follow continued professional development.

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply