Rotating Equipment Engineer

Job Purpose

The aim is to state the overall significance of the job from the organisation's perspective.

Provides guidance and support to electrical maintenance activities. Troubleshoots problems and liaison with vendor for spares & services. Ensures reliability of equipment and suggest improvements. Develops and implements maintenance schedule for equipment. Develops procedures and conducts training for electrical personnel.

Main Accountabilities

This section describes the principal outputs required from the job.

Descriptions

Key Results Area

Policies, Processes and Procedures

• Implements approved Department policies, processes, and procedures and monitors adherence so that work is carried out in a controlled manner

• Adherence to the department policies, processes and procedures

Day- to-day operations

• Analyzes performance of Electrical related systems and provides recommendations. Coordinates with vendors performed maintenance contracts and makes reports

• Smooth flow of day-to-day Electrical equipment performance

Job Specific

• Description

• Key Results Area

• Assists with maintenance activities of Rotating equipment in the plant
• Establishes procedures and instructions required for maintenance of rotating equipment according to engineering principles and safety regulations.
• Contribute to the development of Predictive and Preventive Maintenance plans and procedures for all rotating equipments, and provide technical expertise for rotating equipment maintenance activities, standards and procedures.
• Witness / Tests newly installed Rotating equipment to ensure to fulfil requirement of supplied equipment specifications.
• Provides on-job training to maintenance technicians to develop their skills to perform their duties in most safe and economical manner.
• Reviews with vendor for required spares & services to ensure the equipment maintenance is not delayed because of lack of spare parts.
• Participates in the decisions of replacing rotating equipment by giving technical evaluations.
• Records and analyzes causes of equipment failure and recommends long-term remedy solutions.
• Lead the Investigation team and conduct root cause analysis for major rotating equipment failures and troubleshoot various types of rotating equipment problems.
• Review parts selection for obsolete or out-of-production parts.
• Develop the required technical studies, reports and reviews of all types of rotating equipment.
• Develop and perform performance tests on all different types of rotating equipment, such as compressors and pumps etc.
• Plan strategies to maintain rotating equipment and avoid obsolescence.
• Contributes in design packages for any upgrade changes in the plant rotary equipments
• Develop and review Operating Instruction Manuals for new rotary equipment or systems.
• Perform efficiency calculations for pumps and compressors.
• Perform vibration analysis (steady state, transient, vortex shedding, slug, water hammer)
• Mentor and transfer technical knowledge and skills to entry level engineers.
• Ensure keeping, maintaining and updating a database of all historical data pertaining to rotating equipment failures and assist in analyzing failure data and preparing reliability test reports.

• Consistency in the general provisions.
• Vendor’ evaluation and providing recommendations.
• Responsible for reliability of equipment
• Maintains records of repairs, calibrations and tests.
• Compliance with work instruction and plans.
• Equipment downtime within specified standards.
• Contribution to procedures and maintenance instructions updates.
• Equipment availability is maintained
• Production targets achievements
• Plant safety and integrity

Reporting, HSSE and Related Assignments

Description

Key Results Area

Reporting

• Preparation of accurate technical evaluation reports for the Department in order to meet Department requirements, policies and standards.

• Key information captured accurately and presented to decision-makers in a timely manner

HSSE

• Ensures compliance to all relevant health, safety, security, and environmental procedures across the Company in order to promote a healthy and safe work environment
• Participates adheres across company to HSSE Code of Conduct and actively participates in promoting the use of risk assessments
• Participates in safety, health and environmental programs
• Participates in incident investigation and provide technical expertise as required, understanding of system causes and development of recommendations to avoid recurrence

• Healthy, secure, and safe work environment
• Compliance to all regulatory policies and procedures
• Quality incident investigation

Related Assignments

• Performs other related duties or assignments as directed

• Line Manager's feedback

Application of Guidelines and Decision making

Guidelines: Thinking within detailed standard practices and instructions
Decision making: Operating within given practices and procedures. Work is subject to technical evaluations.

Communications & Working Relationships

Internal:Operations, Project & Engineering, Warehouse, EHSS, Procurement & HR & GS.
External: Existing and Potential suppliers, vendors and contractors as required.

Qualifications

Bachelor Degree in Mechanical engineering

Experience

A minimum of 6 - 8 years of experience in the field of Rotating Equipment in the oil industry or a similar process industry. Knowledge of oil industry standards and codes for Rotating Equipment Engineering, and additional certifications would be an advantage

General Competencies

Behavioural Competencies

Technical Competencies

• Organization Loyalty
• Teamwork & Collaboration
• Driving Excellence
• Analytical Thinking
• Initiative

• Business Acumen
• HSSE Awareness
• Technological Ability
• Planning & Organizing
• Data Collection & Analysis