Rotating Equipment Specialist (Maintenance)

NES Fircroft is currently seeking a Rotating Equipment Specialist (Operations & Maintenance) to work 28/28 on an expat contract basis for an International Operating Company.

The successful candidate will likely be degree-qualified, with proven experience in field maintenance of turbo-machinery.  Any experience with GE and Dresser centrifugal compressors, GE Gas Turbines, Frame 5’s in particular would be an asset. 

The Rotating Equipment Specialist will act as rotating equipment expert / advisor to operations and maintenance teams including performing and supervising major inspection/overhauling tasks on large rotating equipment such as compressors, gas turbines, pumps, blowers.

Duties include:
 

• Direct and monitor progress on shutdown activity preparation and planning for rotating equipment.  Mentor national staff to develop leadership skills and experience with coordinating SD activities for rotating equipment.
• Develop rotating equipment monitoring and maintenance strategies and work programs. Mentor national staff to develop technical and leadership skills, experience and confidence following RCM rotating equipment programs.
• Provides mechanical engineering support to set up effective RCM with appropriate condition monitoring.  Identify opportunities for modifications to improve the design or installations of equipment
• Provides mechanical engineering expertise for rotating equipment and consequent mentoring to the maintenance and operations teams
• Establish and optimize critical sparing requirements and monitor spare parts inventory levels with reference to lead times for procurement to insure uptime
• Monitors performance of major rotating equipment, reports on performance, compares with expected norms and makes recommendations for operational, maintenance or other improvement
• Assists in planning major plant overhauls and setting the overall strategy to capitalize on all SD opportunities
• Recommends operating and maintenance procedure changes to improve equipment uptime
• Reviews data collected from process equipment to optimise operations.  Recommends changes to data collection.  Establish an effective maintenance reporting system to assist with trouble shooting and long term asset management.
• Audits maintenance work orders to ensure recommended work practices are being used and improved upon.  Conduct post job reviews to continuously improve future maintenance activities.
• Support of Plant Operations to troubleshoot operating problems
• Communicate areas of improvement and innovation to line management where appropriate.  Support development of a continuous improvement culture.
• Executes repair work such as replacement of dry gas seals and mechanical seals.  Replacement of bearings and alignment, including overhauling all type of turbo-machinery (hands on ability and knowledge required).
• Supervise quality of maintenance tasks carried out by contractors compared to approved standards and work scopes.
• Provides technical supervision and guidance of execution teams during equipment overhaul.

Required experience:
 

• Degree or equivalent in Engineering (preferably Mechanical) or related discipline.
• Professional and/or Chartered Engineering designation useful. 
• Minimum 10 years’ experience preferably in oil and gas industry upstream operations. 
• Proven experience in field maintenance of turbo-machinery (GE and Dresser centrifugal compressors, GE Gas Turbines, Frame 5’s in particular would be an asset). 
• Compression performance management systems. 
• Understanding of vibration and lube oil analysis and other condition monitoring methods. 
• Strong root cause analysis and troubleshooting skills. 
• Capability to use mechanical precision tools / equipment. 
• Familiarity with mechanical workshop’s activities, tooling and machinery (machining, fabrication process, etc). 
• English language (spoken and written). French is advantageous, Arabic beneficial, but not required. 

With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.