Vantegral Consulting – Our client, an Oil and Gas company, is recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Welding Engineer
Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Employment Type: Contract
Industry: Oil and Gas
Job Summary
- The client is seeking a highly experienced Welding Engineer with a minimum of 10 years of hands-on experience in welding engineering and at least 5 years of experience in the oil and gas/construction environment.
- The ideal candidate must be able to support the creation of a distinct organizational culture, build a unique employer brand, facilitate it’s adoption and promotion by employees while ensuring the organization has the right talent pool that are effectively deployed, managed, rewarded and engaged in a cost effective and sustainable manner.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide Code and Standard interpretation
- Contribute to the management to support business growth.
- Mentor welder and welding Operators on the best and appropriate ways on achieving quality and acceptable welds
- Provide advice to management on welders and welding operators performance and repair rate
- Support engineering team in design analysis and material selection
- Coach and mentor quality team to ensure professionalism and proficiency. Core/Technical
- Oversee the qualification and approval of Welding Procedure Specification.
- Update Welding Procedure Specification and Procedure Qualification Record Register.
- Oversee the qualification of Welder and Welding Operator’s Performance Qualification.
- Update Welders and Welding Operators Register.
- Evaluate Welders Repair Rate and Performance.
- Review and approval of vendor and sub-contractors welding documents.
- Carryout Root Cause Analysis and Weld Failure Analysis in order to initiate and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Evaluating existing and modern welding processes, procedures, equipment and techniques for optimization purposes.
- Analyze engineering design for welding requirements.
- Advises project and Construction teams on all welding and welding consumable issues.
- Carryout and Participate in welding and welding related audits.
Qualifications
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in any Engineering field.
- Certification in any of the following or it’s equivalent:
- International Welding Engineering Certificate (IWE)
- European Welding Engineering Certificate (EWE)
- American Welding Engineering Certificate (AWE).
Experience:
- Minimum of 10 years in Welding Engineering, with at least 5 years in the oil and Gas/ Construction Establishment.
- Proficiency in the major 5 welding processes.
- Proficiency in material selection and metallurgy
- Proficiency in the use and interpretation of major IOC specification and international codes and standards.
- Proficiency in Engineering drawing interpretation, weld mapping and extraction of welding details.
Skills:
- Welding Sequence Planning
- Welding costing
- Effective Communication and Interpersonal interaction
- Blueprint interpretation
- Material selection
- Equipment Calibration
- Documentation
- In-depth understanding of various Welding Process
- Knowledge of welding codes/standards.
- Negotiation
- Conflict resolution.
Application Closing Date
3rd June, 2025.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online