Lead Engineer (Mechanical)

Job title: Lead Engineer (Mechanical)

Location: Port Harcourt

Project: ESCRAVOS ENVIRONS POWER SUPPLY PROJECT

Roles responsibilities:

• Supervises, manages, directs and leads the mechanical discipline team in the basic and detailed design phases of the projects.
• Interfaces and coordinates with other disciplines to ensure timely completion of mechanical work scope.
• Ensures conformance to applicable government regulations, engineering codes and standards as well as company QA system, policies and procedures.
• Develops specifications and reviews client specifications procedures with respect to mechanical work scope.
• Prepares inspection attributes list.
• Prepares schedule of required vendor documents.
• Prepares technical requirements and requisitions.
• Pro-actively reviews and manages vendor technical submittals.
• Ensures prompt identification, submittal and resolution of scope changes and deviations.
• Estimates man-hours, staffing, forecasting, and participating in the development of the project schedule, tracking status, maintaining completion of mechanical deliverables on schedule and change management.
• Prepares product reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
• Provides engineering support by answering technical questions and requests as the need arises.
• Reviews and confirms code basis for the project.
• Collaborates with other project team members to comply with project requirements and meet project schedules, while rendering the necessary supports to others.
• Provides mechanical expert advice for packaged equipment consisting of piping, control valves, instruments and materials to ensure oil and gas operation safety compliance.
• Provides technical support to external design resources, equipment vendors, and fabricators.
• Travels to fabrication shops for meetings, inspections and functional tests, and to customer site for vessel loading activities.
• Provides direction to fabricators and inspectors with applicable assistance
• Reviews and approves fabricator and external design drawings, documentation and fabrication sequence.
• Provides leadership and develops innovative approaches and solutions for advancing personnel and trainees knowledge in equipment and skid designs.
• Performs calculations for pressure vessels, piping stress analysis, analysis and code analysis using multiple codes and standards for training of trainees.
• Provides project scoping input to ensure estimate accuracy and appropriate materials and methods are utilized in an efficient design.
• Provides proposal support by reviewing client specifications and requirements and providing expertise in setting strategy for project offerings.
• Checks design calculations of designers and other engineers within the team.
• Prepares supporting design calculations to substantiate design.
• Actively contributes to design reviews, safety reviews (Risk Assessments and HAZOP’s) from technical standpoint.
• Preparation of technical specifications in liaison with client and project team.
• Produces documentation throughout the process including scope of works, method statements, risk assessments, technical files and other technical documentation to comply with design standards, safety legislation/regulatory requirements and the needs of the client.
• Preparation of installation and operating documents.
• Planning and allocation of workload to other members of project team within discipline in order to deliver work package.
• Management of sub-contractors.
• Mentors the trainees assigned to the team within discipline and brings them to speed with project deliverables to enhance competency and self-dependence, using organized and planned training method.
• Performs any other work as may be assigned by management.