Integrity Engineer

This is an exciting opportunity to join our clients' highly successful Integrity department. The successful candidate will provide pressure systems engineering and pipeline integrity management support.  

You will uphold and advise on appropriate standards and actions needed to ensure safe and reliable operations are maintained for the life of field as well as deliver safe and effective integrity work scopes and projects. A strong focus on regulatory compliance is essential as well as the ability to build positive relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.  

This position operates on a Monday to Friday basis.

Key Responsibilities Include: • Act as member of the Integrity team managing both surface integrity (including Pressure Systems Safety Regulations) and buried pipelines (Including the Pipeline Safety Regulations) on a top tier COMAH site.

• Act as a ‘safety leader’ – ensure health, safety and the environment are prioritised when planning and executing work. • Give technical support to other functions on site (Operations, Wells, Drilling & Maintenance).

• Provide engineering support to the site inspection engineer and embedded inspection contractor • Work with the Pipeline integrity Management Systems and the PSSR written scheme of examination.

• Carry out failure investigation and root cause analysis where required and develop remedial scopes of work.

• Maintain an effective RBI process to ensure robust inspection strategies are in place. • Work closely with other discipline engineers to create and technically review Management of Change proposals and project specifications.

• Contribute to the Pipeline Annual integrity review to identify future inspection, risk and validation, and repair scopes of work. • Develop and execute integrity projects as required (pipeline remediation, pressure vessel & pipework repairs etc)

• Management of key contractors’ activities, check and review work-scopes and final reports.  

Challenge and implement recommendations.

Safety & Environmentally Critical Tasks: • Pipeline defect assessment

• Fitness for service assessments • Risk-based inspection techniques

• Metallurgy and corrosion awareness • Failure investigation / incident investigation

• Tank inspection and management (EEMUA 159) • Management of inline inspection of pipelines


Safety & Environmentally Critical Courses: • Legislative compliance (PSSR / PSR / COMAH)

• Pipeline defect assessment • Fitness for service assessment

• Corrosion mechanisms • NDT techniques

• EMMUA 159 Tank Inspection • Composite repairs – Selection and use

• Project Management  

Key Requirements Include:  

Qualifications: • Mechanical engineering degree-qualified

• CEng or working towards

Experience:

• Ideally at least 5-10 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry or similar process related Industry.  

Personal Attributes: • Diligent, hard-working, team player able to solicit help and co-operation from others.

Benefits: Competitive salaries and a wide range of benefits including:

• Discretionary Bonus • Private Medical Insurance

• Flexible Benefit Allowance • Life Assurance (4x)

• Excellent Pension Provision (up to 16% total contribution) • 25 days holiday + bank holidays

• Flex Days • Profit ‘Units’ Sharing Scheme

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.