Lead Integrity Engineer
TR/077163
Posted: 15/04/2025
- Competitive PAYE day rate
- Scotland, Aberdeen City, Aberdeen
- Contract
Our client is currently recruiting for the position of Lead Integrity Engineer, based in Aberdeen with occasional trips to Barrow required.
Responsibilities:
Assure condition of company assets:
Data / data systems management:
Budget and contract management:
Specific Requirements:
Additional Skills/Training which would be ideal are –
Good knowledge of the following legislation needed:
UK
If you feel that you are well suited to the above opportunity and would like to find out more then please contact Orion Group for more information or apply by forwarding your current CV quoting reference: TR/077163 .
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Responsibilities:
Assure condition of company assets:
- Provide leadership to the asset team and site execution contractors, ensuring compliance with statutory regulation, company policies, standards, and procedures.
- Ensure compliance, and change if require, to Performance Standards and proscribed assurance tasks, ultimately assuring the condition of structural and ‘static’ equipment to prevent failure and Loss of Containment (LOC).
- Ensure asset integrity work is effectively planned via the asset Integrated Activity Planning (IAP), process and long range / 8Q planning process adhered to.
Data / data systems management:
- Ensuring that all inspection data is gathered and processed through company systems as per procedure and in line with local legislative requirements.
- Development and continuous update of the Risk Based Inspection (RBI) programme, and accountable for the timely completion and approval of Integrity Reviews (IR).
- Ensure the team carry out timely analysis of inspection results and, where required, specify appropriate prioritisation and timelines of remedial actions, working with relevant parties to complete repairs as agreed and to plan.
- Capture all asset engineering modifications (Greenfield/Brownfield/ decommission), within the inspection programme e.g. baseline inspections, removal of inspection routines, IDMS update etc. (application / adherence to MOC process).
- Working with peers, continuously develop and monitor common, automated, asset integrity Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s), that measure asset health, ‘risk’ and regulatory and internal compliance.
- Ensure integration of asset integrity data within other company management systems e.g. RiskPoynt barrier model, threats register, and the broader business has awareness of asset integrity status and condition.
- Ensure ‘deferrals’ are raised as appropriate and that company Safety and Environmentally Critical (SECE), backlog target of zero hours is achieved.
Budget and contract management:
- Define, manage, and control the asset integrity budget for their asset. Ensure integrity programmes are included in annual and long-range plan and are fully supported by appropriate budget and resource requirements.
- Manage budgets through the year and provide Latest View (LV), forecasts as required by the business.
- Identify opportunities to rationalise and reduce cost and advise if there is risk of overspend.
- Technical contract owner for deployment of inspection services and fabric maintenance, and monitoring of ongoing contractor performance (and feedback to contract organisations).
Specific Requirements:
- Educated to degree level
- Incorporated / Chartered Engineer status
- The job holder must possess strong operational knowledge of the upstream or other high hazard industry.
- Significant experience in engineering and operations.
- Significant experience within asset integrity; RBI programmes, inspection, Non-Destructive Testing (NDT), Fitness for Service assessment, Non-Invasive Inspection (NII) programmes.
- Track record of continuous professional development.
- Describe the key technical skills required to perform the role and articulate the breadth and depth of the requirement as appropriate
- Conversant with UK regulatory environment, standards and industry best practice.
- Experienced and full understanding of Risk Based Inspection programmes, models / software systems, and degradation mechanisms.
- Experienced and full understanding with maintenance management systems e.g. SAP and their interaction with RBI systems.
- Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with internal customers and external regulatory bodies.
- Embeds the company’s leadership Expectations into their everyday work and interactions, continuously learning and developing these competencies for themselves as well as their teams.
- A decisive leader who sets high standards and drives performance. Is agile, flexible, open to challenge and able to challenge appropriately.
- Great communication skills that informs/shares knowledge clearly and unambiguously, influences and persuades in a constructive way, sometimes influencing a change in the course of conversations, to gain agreement and collaboration.
- Demonstrable experience in complex and ambiguous situations – able to adopt a calm and composed mentality that promotes proactivity and deals with disagreements, problems and issues in an open and constructive manner.
- Leads and promotes organisational change; makes collaborative, high-quality and timely decisions; takes informed risks and learns from failures.
- Builds and maintains a professional network, leads and contributes credibly to industry conversations on important issues; seeks to create and maintain good relationships internally and externally across various organisational levels; puts other people at ease and quickly builds rapport
Additional Skills/Training which would be ideal are –
- Corrosion and degradation mechanisms
- Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) methods
Good knowledge of the following legislation needed:
UK
- Pressure Systems Safety Regulations (PSSR)
- Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH)
- Safety Case Regulations (SCR)
- Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER)
- Prevention of Fire and Explosion, and Emergency Response (PFEER), regulations
- Design and Construction Regulations (DCR)
- European Pressure Equipment Directive (PED)
If you feel that you are well suited to the above opportunity and would like to find out more then please contact Orion Group for more information or apply by forwarding your current CV quoting reference: TR/077163 .
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Jenny Chalmers
Account Manager
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