Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) is the pioneer and leader of the petroleum industry in Nigeria. We invest heavily in our employees, which is reflected in our industry-leading development programme and our commitment to see our employees’ ideas travel and come to fruition.
Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) is recruiting into the vacant positions. All Interested candidates are advised to go through available positions carefully and submit their applications appropriately before the deadline.
All Available positions are listed below:
- Senior Quality Engineer
- Senior Commissioning and Start-up (CSU) Engineer
- Project Lead – Platforms & Integration
Senior Quality Engineer
Experience Level: Experienced Professionals
Job Description:
We’re seeking someone who’s an expert in quality assurance and quality control within the oil and gas sector. Here’s a role that will develop and grow your professional and personal skills, with the chance to make a real difference within a supportive, positive company.
Where you fit in
The Senior Quality Engineer role will report to the Engineering Lead SWO (Shallow Water Offshore). In this role, you will collaborate with all disciplines and support groups within the organization. You will also interface with project groups as necessary for internal audits, asset integrity, quality, and operation readiness functional groups. Moreover, you will deal with multiple stakeholders such as NDT (Non-Destructive Testing) Contractors, QA/QC & Inspection Services Contractors.
What’s the role?
As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will provide expertise and advice on quality issues to the project teams, to guide and help develop and maintain the various Project Quality Management Systems. You will manage and direct QA/QC support to specific projects. Moreover, you will also network with Senior Management, Project Quality Leads, QA/QC Engineers, QC Inspectors, Materials Engineers, HSE Advisors, Project team members and contractor to ensure service requirements are met.
Your further accountabilities will include:
- Manage the QA/QC & Inspection Services contract, deliver contract value, and become its Contract Holder.
- Manage quality assurance and control activities at the various SCiN (Shell Companies in Nigeria) projects and assets.
- Liaise with project teams and production assets to manage resource plan and manning levels for QC inspection personnel.
- Facilitate business performance review meetings with inspection service contractors to monitor performance, resolve issues like claims/variation requests, listen to complaints, pass information to contractors on new requirements etc.
- Facilitate review and renewal of pre-mobilization certificates for NDT (Non-Destructive Testing) contractors.
- Lead quality audits, reviews & PQHC (Project Quality Health Check) and prepare robust reports on outcome of audits.
- Conduct ECIA (Equipment Criticality and Intervention Assessment) workshops for SPDC (Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd) projects at design & execute phase.
- Provide SQI (Shelly Quality Intelligence) training to senior management, project quality leads, QA/QC Engineers, QC Inspectors, Materials Engineers, HSE Advisors and Project team members in SPDC.
- Provide professional support to project teams in implementing and utilizing QIRMS for managing Project Quality.
- Support SCiN and EMEA Projects to ensure that ALL Quality incidents are properly reviewed and recorded in QIRMS.
- Review NCRs (Non-Conformance Report) in SPDC Projects to ensure accuracy of information and proper close-out in QIRMS.
- Maintain a report tracking system with QIRMS and issue reports on a regular basis.
- Establish good relations with the organisational team members, promoting quality as a personal responsibility.
- Lead, guide and motivate a team of quality practitioners to vigorously pursue and improve their quality performance.
- Implement a Monthly Quality KPI management system to support awareness across the organisation.
- Analyse root cause analysis of Non-conformance/Corrective reports action and recommend, opportunities for improvement to Management.
- Co-ordinate continual improvements of the Quality Management System, ensuring that evidence of corrective and preventive actions taken are reviewed and recorded in QIRMS.
- Establish and maintain processes to ensure a consistent, robust and auditable approach to quality assurance and control.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidate for “ Senior Quality Engineer” should click the button below and start their application.
Senior Commissioning and Start-up (CSU) Engineer
Experience Level: Experienced Professionals
Job Description: We’re seeking someone who’s an expert in commissioning and start-up (CSU) engineering within the oil and gas sector. Here’s a role that will develop and grow your professional and personal skills, with the chance to make a real difference within a supportive, positive company.
Where you fit in?
As a Senior Commissioning and Start-Up Engineer, you will be involved in preparing and monitoring design and construction reviews to ensure design and activities are in line with the approved project specifications, standards and documentation requirements to maintain commissioning records also in managing work, as well as supervising the junior colleagues in the team in order – to ensure all projects assigned to them are efficiently delivered to a high professional quality.The Senior Commissioning and Start-Up Engineer should have significant operational experience, preferably Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO), offshore and onshore experience, exceptional interpersonal and management skills. The work will be executed in a very challenging environment and business solutions will be required to a wide range of issues not all of which will be of a technical nature. Teamwork and influencing, communication skills will be a key requisite, as will the ability to operate effectively in a multi-cultural environment.
What’s the role?
Your main responsibility as a Senior Commissioning and Start-Up Engineer is to support Commissioning & Start-Up (CSU) Lead in design, assurance and safety reviews, planning, documentations, pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up of portfolio projects in line with Shell Project Standard CSU and Handover Practitioners Guide requirements and industry best practice. You will support the asset team during start-up planning, developing/reviewing procedures, and actual start-up activities. You will also support the update of projects Completions Management System for all the projects/work scope.
Your further accountabilities will include:
- Providing commissioning inputs to projects front-end definition.
- Supervise activities of assigned commissioning engineers and technicians, including contractor resources.
- Support the CSU Lead in producing project commissioning and start-up deliverables (plans, schedules, manpower, budget, procedures) in line with corporate standards and methods.
- Contribute to project design and quality assurance activities and deliverables.
- Provide input to, and support implementation of, project HSE and quality plans.
- Support commissioning and start up execution activities and associated Permit to Work (PtW) requirements.
- Review commissioning and start up deliverables as may be assigned by the CSU Lead.
- Ensure timely and accurate data entry into Projects Completions and Certification Management System (CCMS)
- Update of all commissioning documentation pre & post start-up.
- Participate in all pre start-up safety reviews and pre start-up hazard study activities.
- Input into systemization of the plant and create all commissioning documentation and check sheets for assigned systems.
- Organise and execute all commissioning activities within responsible systems.
- If required prepare Standard Operating Procedures, prepare and deliver training packages.
- Carry out all commissioning and start-up activities safely to schedule and punch list allocated systems.
- Assess all activities associated within the commissioning systems allocated to the individual and present justified training requirements for commissioning manager’s approval.
- Participate in all coordination, scheduling, safety and progress review meetings; and administer Change Control System.
- Ensure and assist as required that all discipline tests are complete.
- Ensure the newly built asset is suitably labelled for process pipe, equipment, instrumentation, electrical items etc
- Attend design review meetings as required per assigned systems, i.e. hazard and operability (HAZOP), Process and Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID) review and model reviews.
What we need from you?
We’re keen to hear from individuals with at least 5-7 years of working experience in upstream operations or commissioning and start-up roles and preferably a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or equivalent. Alongside this, we would hope to see the following on your CV:
- Extensive oil and gas industry experience including front-line supervisory roles for operations and/or maintenance and/or engineering.
- Knowledgeable in Project Management Framework, and CSU & Handover Practitioners guide.
- Leading by example in HSE / HSE management systems skills.
- Experience in a supervisory role for Commissioning and Start Up activities in projects through multiple phases (Identify / Assess, Select, Define, Execute) including:
- Implementation of Commissioning strategy and execution plan.
- Developing & implementing Commissioning plans, procedures and budgets.
- Specifying Commissioning contractor technical support requirements.
- Supervising multi-disciplinary pre-Commissioning and Commissioning activities (process, mechanical, instrument, electrical);
- Technical and HSE risk identification and mitigation (including Flawless Project Delivery);
- Application of a computerized Completions Management System.
- Experience in structured technical review or audit.
- Effective communication skill – both written and verbal, with the ability to communicate subject area within multi-disciplined project team.
- Proven ability and track record as an effective team leader.
- People coaching, mentoring, diplomacy skill.
- Skilled in influencing, excellent relationships- both up and down the organization.
- A self-starter and quick learner –who can attain to an SME in Commissioning in a short period.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidate for ” Senior Commissioning and Start-up (CSU) Engineer” should click the button below and start their application.
Project Lead – Platforms & Integration
Business unit:Projects and Technology
Experience Level: Experienced Professionals
Job Description:
Where you fit in
Shell’s Projects and Technology (P&T) business supports the company’s operated and non-operated assets, safely improving performance and raising the bar being a responsible operator. We use our technical, commercial, and digital skills to competitively optimize production and we replicate technologies across the portfolio.
As Project Lead, you will be a member of Shell’s SPDC Nigeria HI Gas Development Leadership Team and will directly manage the Platform Jackets and Topsides Fabrication/Integration and Offshore Installation aspects of HI project in accordance with the contractual and safety requirements, within the budgets allocated and within schedule.
What’s the role?
In this role, you will manage the Platforms, Jacket and Integration aspects of our HI NAG Development that will develop gas and condensate in Shell’s HI field located in OML 144 in Nigeria’s Shallow Offshore Waters.
Your further accountable include:
- Assure effective project management and provide clear advice/instructions to the multi-disciplined project leadership team.
- Support the PM as a key member of the LT to deliver a competitive (cost and schedule) project.
- Integrate other functional areas (construction management, asset holders, drilling, subsurface, etc.) into a single technical delivery organization.
- Participate in the development of the control cost and schedule.
- Deliver the HI Project Platforms on schedule, safely and within budget.
- Develop project strategies, direction and performance for the HI Gas Development in accordance with Shell requirements and policies.
- Manage the interface with the Commercial Function to ensure that project execution for platforms matches the availability of funding.
- Develop and implement project management and health check systems including interface, risk/opportunity, permits and consents, cost, schedule/progress, Quality, HSE (HSE MS, HSE Case, Goal Zero), Global Processes and Monitoring/ Reporting. Apply these through the Platform design and construction phases to demonstrate Technical Integrity.
- Manage interfaces with internal and external stakeholders (Sunlink; State Government representatives; NCDMB, and Contractor Management).
- Jointly accountable with Asset Manager and Sustainable Development & Community Relations Manager to deliver performance on SCD, EISHA and Security for effective project delivery.
- Manage Operations Readiness & Assurance for the HI asset to enable the Asset Team take over operation & maintenance of the plants by full implementation of Project to Asset Handover processes, including early identification, training, involvement and integration of future operators.
- Provide Commission support on all systems for the HI Project.
- Develop contingency plans; resolve conflicts; set priorities based on trade-offs
What we need from you?
We’re keen to hear from Individuals who graduated from any Engineering discipline and who are COREN registered with working knowledge of oil and gas facilities and Project engineering systems, tools and practices.
Beyond that, we’d like to see the following on your CV:
- Minimum of 15 years in engineering design and construction experience with at least 3 years in a project lead position.
- Knowledge of Digital Project Management and Requirements Engineering.
- Extensive Project management experience and skills – Minimum GPES Lv2, with proven record of leading similar projects.
- Experience in Contract management.
- Excellent inter-personal and leadership skills with good communications skills (i.e. report writing and presentation) are essential.
- Team player, acting as a champion to break new grounds, self-motivated starter.
- Can manage as required the relationship with key stakeholders to achieve projects’ objectives.
- Thorough understanding of the risks and the technical/commercial issues associated with development and production of oil and gas.
- Proven track record of results delivery in challenging project environments.
- Capable of rigorously implementing and enforcing global standards, procedures and engineering work processes.
- Skills and competencies such as:
- Skills in managing Strategic and Front-end Processes.
- Project Execution
- Resource & Schedule Management
- Cost Management
- Project Control Processes
- Project Context
- Contracting and Procurement
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidate for” Project Lead – Platforms & Integration ” should click the button below and start their application.
DEADLINE: unspecified
