Summary
North Oil Company is seeking a Reliability Engineer I for a two-year definite contract based in Doha, Qatar. The role analyzes equipment failures and reliability data, leads root cause investigations, and develops recommendations to improve maintenance plans, safety, and production performance. The position is resident on-site five days a week and includes occasional offshore trips. Applicants need a relevant bachelor’s degree, at least 10 years of maintenance or reliability experience in oil and gas or a similar industry, SAP S/4HANA PM experience, and fluent English.
The posting
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Job Purpose
2 Years Definite Contract
JOB DIMENSIONS
Work produced by Reliability Engineer has the following impact:
a. Reliability Engineer issue analyses and recommendations that are presented to senior management and shareholder (QatarEnergy and TotalEnergies) to justify company production performance.
b. Recommendations are taken in account to build medium and long term investment plan of Maintenance department
c. Results of analysis are used to change the way preventive maintenance is being executed by offshore team
CONTEXT AND ENVIRONMENT
Position is in a OPCO (JV) operating oil & gas facility with offshore/onshore (non producing) sites, based in Doha, Qatar.
The position is part of the permanent team and is on resident basis (5d a week).
Trip to offshore are required on ah-hoc basis.
Key Accountabilities
ACCOUNTABILITIES
To produce and steward Reliability improvement recommendations that will contribute to the safety and overall field efficiency improvement by analyzing and learning lessons from unplanned events for technical failures across all Maintenance discipline areas.
ACTIVITIES
- Drive an Incident Free environment / mindset within the Department and with all stakeholders.
- Perform/review and provide coaching for Reliability-Centered Maintenance studies to optimize preventive maintenance plans. Provide support for Maintenance Methods team and MIEC.
- Produce monthly Reliability reports indicating critical equipment Reliability and key issues from (SAP) S4Hanna corrective data, Smart Signal and other data sources.
- Deep analysis of monthly SECE report to improve Maintenance and integrity backlog.
- Carry out SECE performance results analysis to optimise maintenance test frequency.
- Estimate vital function availability and reliability status from other maintenance discipline based on ISO 14224 methods.
- Conduct life analysis using Weibull++ or similar tool, have a working knowledge of Reliability Growth either by using a tool or spreadsheet.
- Estimate MTBF, MTTF and Failure Rates and their associated confidence limits, and how to benchmark against ISO 14224 compliant data sources.
- Conduct and lead Root Cause Analyses (investigations) using CTA or other structured methods and to produce/steward appropriate actions to mitigate or avoid reoccurrence. Support HSE / Reliability joint investigations where technical failures have been a significant contributor.
- Focus on uptime/output losses and the causes of those losses (i.e Pareto analysis), prioritizing losses, eliminations plans, and implementation of those plans.
- Lead obsolescence studies and produce strategies for long term sustainability, produce/steward appropriate actions to optimize longevity of obsolete equipment where appropriate and to produce/steward recommendations for equipment where obsolescence cannot be tolerated.
- Develop list of Top Reliability issues (Bad Actors) affecting production performance/business efficiency, investigate and produce/steward action plans to mitigate or avoid reoccurrence. Review these Bad Actors periodically for repeat issues and feedback into action plans.
- Develop and implement smart reporting from online monitoring sources for automated and semi-automated Reliability data calculations.
- Provide Reliability Engineering support in the design and development of brown and green field sites.
- Monitor Data quality and provide coaching for reporting improvements on defects reports in (SAP) S4Hanna.
Promote reliability awareness centered around (SAP) S4Hanna reporting. - Coach engineer in the team on their tasks.
- Promote cost awareness and innovation within his/her team.
- All staff must be willing to participate in Crisis Response Training and to assist during Emergency Response Situations if required.
Competencies
Delegate Appropriately and Communicate Effectively
Demonstrate Adaptability in Managing Complex Situations
Demonstrate Learning Agility and Drive Innovation
Develop Emotional Intelligence and Cultural Competence
Develop Others and Institutionalise Knowledge
Develop Talent for the Future NOC Sustainability
Facilitate Collaboration and Sense of Community
Improve Safety, Technical Proficiency and Results
Lead By Example with NOC Values
Set Purpose, Strategic Direction and Company Plan
Strengthen Accountability and Continuous Improvement
Think and Act in Stakeholder-Centric Ways
Education
BSc degree in science or technical field, preferably holding a certification in Maintenance/Reliability
Experience
- Formal training in Reliability Engineering tools and techniques.
- Working knowledge of formal Root Cause Analysis, Life Analysis, Reliability Calculations, RAM, FMEA and Reliability/Risk Centered Maintenance Tools and Techniques.
- Minimum 10 years’ experience in the petrochemical, refining, Oil & Gas exploration or similar Industry in Maintenance/Reliability.
- Significant knowledge of offshore plant and equipment and maintenance systems.
- Proficiency with technical manuals, PFDs, P&IDs, Datasheets, Cause and Effect Charts.
- Experience in leadership with a strong work ethic, good presentation skills and ability to communicate ideas, concepts and technical information to a broad audience.
- Medically fit to travel to offshore oil & gas platform
Results driven approach and attitude. - Fluent in English (listening, writing and speaking) and its technical vocabulary.
- Proven experience on Computerized Maintenance and Inspection Management System (CMIMS), specially with the (SAP) S4Hanna PM module.