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Job Title:  Maintenance Engineer   

Organisation: NFT Consult Limited

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: N+1 Field Manager and N+2 Head of Maintenance and Inspection Engineer

About the Company:

NFT Consult Limited is a business process outsourcing firm with offices in Uganda, South Africa, Kenya, Botswana Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Burundi and South Sudan.

Client brief:

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) Project involves the construction and operation of a buried, cross-border pipeline to transport crude oil from the Lake Albert area in Uganda to the eastern coast of Tanzania for export to international markets. The pipeline will run from Kabaale in Hoima District, Uganda, to Chongoleani, Tanga Region, in Tanzania. The length of the pipeline is 1,443 kilometres (km) of which 296 km will be in Uganda.  In Uganda, the pipeline will traverse ten (10) Districts, comprising Hoima, Kikuube, Kakumiro, Kyankwanzi, Mubende, Gomba, Sembabule, Lwengo, Rakai, and Kyotera.

Job Summary:   The ideal candidate will be managing the mechanic maintenance activities and EACOP Ugandan maintenance coordination for all discipline and site mechanical technician and several maintenance contractor. He/she will be responsible for maintenance activities for perimeter 1: feederline, PS1,PS2, MLBV station in this area.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

General:

• Responsible for the maintenance coordination carried out on site.
• Ensure that maintenance activities are performed in strict compliance with COMPANYs current safety rules and operating procedures and in accordance with best industrial practices/standard. Thereby guarantee the quality of the maintenance operations conducted on Site by the Contractor and outside agents.
• As part of the position, contribute on the optimization of maintenance in term of quality, availability and cost
• Contribute to HSE performance in line with EACOP objectives
• Ensure the Work Packs, Procedures, Permits to Works, Risk Assessments and Tool Box Talks are correctly drafted by the Support Entities
• Ensure the main resources of the scopes are provided in time by the Support Entities
• Ensure the Isolations, Inhibitions, Flushing and various scopes are provided.
• Provide input for the Campaign various Planning and Scheduling
• Provide and Execution Plan and source the supporting resources (e.g. vessels, scaffolding, HSE supervision);
• Prepare and execute the on boarding process of the various workforces prior the execution phases to commence
• Ensure the Campaign is safely and efficiently done
• Manage related service contracts as to improve campaign efficiency;
• Contribute to the 2-Year visions of planned campaigns and the 90-day planning
• Influence the 90-day planning
• Influence the 5-week planning
• Issue t-REX.

HSE:

• Adopt and demonstrate exemplary behavior with regard to HSEQ rules & requirements and Company Ethics & “Code of Conduct” policy.
• Participate in the development and implementation of Environmental management System (EMS) in MST perimeter.
• Permanently checking the safe status of the facilities.
• Editing operational procedures for the routine operation as well as for the specific operations.
• Participate to the HAZID, HAZOP and Cause Tree Analysis.
• Participate to PTW audits.
• Ensure that all operating procedures used for the operational discharge are updated.
• Organize roving routine and on-site visit to check regularly the operational and safety /environment status of the facility.
• Contribute for the set-up an HSE plan to meet HSE annual target.

Production Operations:

• Ensure the performance / availability of the facilities, highlight miss-functions, compile relevant data, establish a diagnosis, produce corresponding report with corrective actions and participate to the implementation of the agreed plan.
• Prepare periodic or specific of reporting of the activities under his/her responsibilities.
• Supervise the preparation of the PTW dossiers and confirm completeness prior to pass them to RO.
• Highlight miss-function, compile all relevant documentation, participate to the establishment of a diagnosis and enforce agreed corrective actions.
• Participate on the validation of the 5WLA planning of the site and provide regular update to the MST back office for all activities carried out or under campaign.
• Identify potential clashes and propose alternative sequences.
• Identify the solutions for optimization in terms of HSE, organization, availability and maintainability, reduced technical cost.
• Participate to the definition and approve scope of partial or full field shutdown.
• Approve all the procedures for operation and shutdown instructions.
• Ensure that production incidents or shutdowns are properly investigated and sign the associated production reports.
• Identify possible areas of optimization, potential improvement to increase equipment availability and cost reduction.
• Enforce the recommendations from the engineering support team and request assistance from base as needed.
• Evaluate and participate on the validation of the Site Modification Request (SMR/RFM); consolidate the technical dossier on maintenance side.
• Validate the commissioning / re-commissioning of new equipment or equipment modified; ensure the good management of the punch list after the hand-over.

Maintenance Operations:

• Participate on Work program preparation for maintenance in perimeter 1.
• Review Ugandan maintenance contractors’ quality and performance.
• Ensure the good management of the campaign maintenance preparation and execution.

Quality Assurance:

• Evaluate the performance of the Maintenance service contractor, secure that REXs are well implemented for the maintenance plan to be updated.
• Audit and evaluate the performance of maintenance contractors on site and suggests ways to improve performance (including specific training courses), Organize multi-discipline audits of the installation in coordination with Contractor’s discipline manages.

Site Management:

• Build TEAM environment for perimeter 1
• Evaluate the personnel working in his team and make proposal for their training plan.
• Assist and manage the mechanical technician.
• Contribute to the training of all personnel under his/her responsibility.
• Organize on Job Training (OJT) in coordination with the Training Department.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor level in Mechanical Engineering or similar
• Proficiency in oral and written English
• Good knowledge of CMIMS (Computerized Maintenance & Inspection Management System).
• 10-15 years of experience in Oil & Gas industry or a high potential, 4 years minimum as site discipline or multidiscipline leader or supervisor.
• Site -multi sites and multidiscipline planning preparation or activity management experience.
• Mechanical maintenance experience.
• Good experience in use of MS office
• Good experience in Primavera use
• Other skills required: responsibility, natural authority, decision making, good communication skills, organization and methods.

How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should apply online through the NFT jobs portal.

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Deadline: 31st October 2024        

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