Lifting and Rigging Engineer at AOS Orwell Limited

AOS Orwell Limited is the largest indigenous Oilfield Services Company in Nigeria. We offer a wide range of innovative products and services in Well Construction, Process Automation, Instrumentation & Control, OCTG & Conductor Casing services to the Oil & Gas sector. The company was founded in 1981 and rebranded AOS Orwell in 2011 following the merger between Africa Oilfield Services Ltd and Orwell International.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Lifting and Rigging Engineer

Location: Bonny Island, Rivers
Job type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate a high level of safety awareness to ensure the lifting team is aware of lifting best practices; proactively assist the Client and AOSO whenever necessary to improve and maintain HSE performance.
• In-depth capacity to generate a lifting plan that has comprehensive engineering analysis, rigging design consideration, and requisite loading and crane schematics in line with best practices.
• Support to deliver in-house training when the need arises. This may take the form of formal or informal courses delivered by the company.
• Support AOSO to review and assess the competency of the lifting and rigging personnel involved in the shutdown activities to ensure availability, adequacy, and validity of the required level of expertise to perform the assigned tasks including training and qualifications test.
• Provide engineering and technical support to the AOSO lifting team to ensure that all rigging activities performed by AOSO are in accordance with required codes and specifications.
• Generate lifting plans ranging from Simple, Complicated, Critical, Tandem, and Complex lifting plans prior to submittal to PMS Rigging SMEs for review and onward progression for Client approval.
• Monitor and assist (as required), in bridging the competence gaps of AOSO rigging personnel involved in the rigging & lifting process.
• Capable of utilizing the established Management of Change (MOC) and Site Technical Query (STQ) procedures for addressing lifting operational changes/issues in the field.
• Review Maintenance schedules/plans to ensure they include all required prerequisites such as lifting plans, realistic timelines, logical sequencing, and adequate resources.
• Supervise the rigging team field activities, especially for critical lifts per assigned roles and responsibilities in line with AOSO and NLNG policies and procedures.
• Carry out systematic review and assessment during the execution phase to oversee compliance and to identify last-minute job vicinity risks.
• Assist the field execution personnel (supervisors, riggers) in the analysis and assessment of risk-related activities and provide required technical expertise as and when necessary.

Requirements
The ideal candidate will possess as follows:

• Must possess a B.Sc / B.Tech or HND. in Mechanical or any other related engineering discipline with extensive experience in lifting and rigging engineering design, loading, and structural analysis.
• Minimum of 15 years work experience as a Lifting Engineer/Specialist, 7 years minimum within the Oil and Gas industry for maintenance and/or construction operation.
• Strong problem solving, communication, and teamwork skills.
• Committed to workplace safety and continue improvement.
• Lifting and Rigging Competency Certificate e.g. LOLER, LEEA, CIS Competent person, etc. will be an added advantage.
• He or she must have a good interpersonal skill, be self-sufficient and adaptable, confident in site work situations, and can work under pressure.
• Working knowledge of engineering software such as AutoCAD, NAVIS Works, STAAD PRO, etc.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Application documents to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.

Note: Shortlisted qualified candidates only will be contacted