Vacancies at SPIE Oil & Gas Services

SPIE Oil & Gas Services (part of the SPIE Group) provides a complete range of services to some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies through its network of offices in 25 countries across Africa, the Middle-East and Asia-Pacific.

Our turnover has more than doubled in the last few years thanks to the dedication of our 4,000 employees to whom we give training, recognition, and genuine opportunities for career development. In order to support this growth, SPIE Oil & Gas Services is always seeking talented individuals to join its teams.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: CBM Engineer M / F

Reference: 2024-36099
Location: Nigeria (FPSO AKPO/EGINA)
Contract type: Fixed-term-contract
Contractual hours: Full time
Contract duration: 1 Year (+1 year option)

Main Activities

• Contributes to the building of Methods and Support activities within the Maintenance entity.
• Carries out CBM vibration surveys on site as per planning developed by the CBM Lead and issues reports accordingly
• Follows up with site to ensure that all actions arising from the CBM Surveys are promptly closed
• Carries out Lube Oil sampling as per the planning, performs laboratory analysis of the samples as required and issues reports accordingly.
• Advises site on the outcome of the Lube Oil analysis and the actions required to be carried out to ensure equipment availability.
• Reviews and advises and follows up on the acceptable process for Lube Oil management on site.
• Carries out gas leak investigation/surveys on sites and makes estimates of the leakage rates of valves. Also, develops the action plan to close out the leaks on the concerned valves.
• Participates in RAID meetings with HQ and Smart Room and follows up with TADM’s and site to ensure the closure of the actions arising therefrom.
• Assists in vibration analyses and other analyses including all methods related activites as required by the CBM Lead.
• Is in constant liaison with the Smart Room Engineers, Maintenance disciplines TADM’s and Methods Engineers to follow-up actions with regards to the results of the different CBM measurement campaigns.
• Follows up with site on all the corrective actions recommended following analyses to ensure that they are properly implemented. Visits site whenever the need arises and physically assists to carry out specialized activities following from CBM results (balancing, alignment, rotor axial position adjustment, proximiter gaps setting, etc.…)
• Issues regular CBM reports as considered necessary to show the health status of big machinery and to highlight pending problems.
• Takes the ownership on all CBM tools on sites and at base, and acts to ensure their proper usage and safekeeping
• Carries out infra-red thermography campaigns on electrical switchboards and ensures the timely execution and report interpretation. Follows up with site on the corrective actions arising therefrom.
• Follows up the Condition Based Monitoring of electrical motors, takes data and liaises with responsible Contractors to interprete and proffer sloutions to equipment issues.
• Carries out borroscope inspection on turbogenerators when required and issues reports
• Follow up SAP Work Orders to ensure proper preparation, close out and reporting on all CBM related actitives on site
• Assists in any other way considered necessary in his capacity, to support the CBM Leader and the maintenance team objective to ensure efficient site support and good availability and reliability of rotating equipment.

Key Words

• Maintenance / CBM / Vibration

Context and missions:

• Rotational Status (28/28 days).
• AKPO and EGINA FPSO

Profile
The holder of this post must have the following qualifications:

• Vibration ISO Cat II Certification, based on the ISO 18436-3
• Good knowledge or CBM tools (OROS, Bentley Nevada, OneProd, Allen Bradley, etc…)
• Good knowledge of planning tools, and of CMIMS tools (preferably SAP based)

Candidate Criteria:

• Minimum level of experience required: 10 years or more

Required authorisations:

• Education : BSc/BEng in Engineering
• Vibration ISO Cat II Certification, based on the ISO 18436-3
• Professional experience: 10 years in Oil & Gas environemt
• 5 years experience in Condition Based and Predictive Maintenance
• Experience in maintenance support and especially in field maintenance capacity
• Good knowledge or CBM tools (OROS, Bentley Nevada, OneProd, Allen Bradley, etc…)
• Good knowledge of planning tools, and of CMIMS tools (preferably SAP based)

Languages:

• English (E-Native or bilingual proficiency)

What can we offer you?
Choosing SPIE gives you the opportunity to:

• Work for an international Group with operations on every continent,
• Experience a wide variety of professions within several activities:
  • Outdoor networks and street lighting
  • Information and communication systems
  • Nuclear power
  • Maintenance
  • Oil and gas
  • HVAC engineering
  • Electrical engineering
  • Mechanical engineering
• Working in energy and the environment, sectors of the future at the heart of sustainable development issues

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Project Manager / Project Director – H / F

Reference ID: 2024-36181
Locations: Nigeria
Job type: Full-time

Description

• Are you ready to lead a high-impact Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) project that will shape the future of energy? SPIE Global Services Energy is seeking an experienced and strategic Project Manager/Director to oversee a major project in Lagos, Nigeria, valued between €10M and €50M.

Why This Role?

• Strategic Impact: Lead a project that drives progress in the energy sector, managing critical infrastructures and delivering value-added electrical and instrumentation systems.
• Global Leadership: Manage a dynamic engineering team spread across multiple locations, enhancing your ability to coordinate international operations.
• Challenge and Growth: Tackle the complexities of both onshore and offshore construction in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.

Key Responsibilities
As Project Manager/Director, you will be responsible for:

• Health & Safety: Prioritize the safety of all personnel, ensuring compliance with HSE goals and exceeding expectations where possible.
• Operational Excellence: Guarantee adherence to SPIE’s stringent quality assurance processes, maintaining the highest standards across all project phases.
• Team Leadership: Manage a skilled team of engineers and labor resources, ensuring optimal performance to meet project timelines and budgets.
• Progress Oversight: Provide regular updates on progress, problem areas, and potential risks, ensuring transparency and timely decision-making.
• Contract Management: Negotiate variations, claims, and ensure that contractual obligations are met, while proactively identifying cost-saving opportunities.
• Risk Mitigation: Anticipate and mitigate project risks while uncovering new opportunities for success.

Profile

• Previous experience working on a O&G / refinery / petrochemical site with a proven background of successful project delivery.
• Extensive knowledge of related HSEQ safe working practices/procedures.
• 10 years of demonstrable experience in similar role or senior position in project management.
• Strong skills in contract and claim management.
• Excellent communication and negociation skills.
• Extensive knowledge of construction process, it’s implementation and management.
• Fully conversant with project management tools.
• Ability to react to changing deadlines and achieve project goals / milestones.
• Ability to manage / maintain budget / schedule requirements.

What You Bring:

• Proven Expertise: Significant experience in the oil & gas, refinery, or petrochemical industry is essential.
• Leadership Skills: A track record of managing multidisciplinary teams across different geographies.
• Technical Acumen: Deep knowledge of EPC projects, particularly in the energy sector.
• Resilience and Adaptability: Ability to thrive in challenging environments, particularly within Nigeria’s dynamic energy landscape.

Choosing SPIE gives you the opportunity to:

• Work for an international Group with operations on every continent,
• Experience a wide variety of professions within several activities:
  • Outdoor networks and street lighting
  • Information and communication systems
  • Nuclear power
  • Maintenance
  • Oil and gas
  • HVAC engineering
  • Electrical engineering
  • Mechanical engineering
  • Wind Energy
• Working in energy and the environment, sectors of the future at the heart of sustainable development issues.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to work on a flagship project that will drive meaningful change in the energy industry.
• A competitive compensation package.
• The chance to grow within SPIE Global Services Energy, a leader in global energy solutions.
• The Project Manager/Director will be based in Nigeria, Lagos.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: SAP / UNISUP Engineer

Job Identification: 2024-36039
Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Contract
Contract duration: 1 Year (+1 year option)

Context and Missions

• Maintain and update the architecture of the Unisup PM system, in full compliance with the Company rules and standards
• Organize and implement the changes related to the developments about asset register definition or work order flow, or any other PM-related architecture change
• Define the Unisup PM profiles
• Follow up the use of the Unisup PM tool and report on proper use or alert on deviations of use.

Main Activities

• Reports to Head of CMIMS and Reporting.
• Organize the training of the users, organize and provide technical assistance to all PM users
• Control the use of the Unisup PM tool and report on proper use or alert on deviations of use
• Perform weekly/monthly reports on Unisup PM KPI and use
• Organise and follow up the system data updates as per site modification request processes.
• Define and develop the procedures associated with the use of the system.
• Coordinate all aspects related to the administration of the AKPO and EGINA PM module.
• Coordinate and follow up with the defined parties, as required, the development, training, and use of the MM module for the M&I teams.
• Provides assistance to the M&I teams in that respect.
• Liaise with SAP metier support and the SAP support Centre (Paris / Pau based).
• Coordinate with Metier for mass data transfer (for both spare parts and technical data)
• Participate in Maintenance Engineering Projects coordinated by the DW FOPS entity
• Organise and ensure support to the PM users.
• Organise, develop and control the reporting and analysis to be obtained from Unisup for all M&I teams.
• Initiate and conduct audits on the use of Unisup by the M&I teams to control and correct as necessary the deviation from good practices.
• Initiate support service for PM users of Lagos-based staff and of AKPO and EGINA FPSO staff.
• Provide assistance in all areas of competence with regard to M&I works planning, follow-up, reporting, and logging
• Coordinate the review of activity backlogs and contribute actively to eliminate them by developing strategies, making recommendations to management, and coordinating all stakeholders to achieve this objective.
• Carry out any other duties that may be assigned by his Hierarchy
• It is also the Focal point for DW PM Module users (FOPS, ECP, Marine, Akpo, Egina, Ladol, etc.)
• Liaise with the affiliate Unisup coordination and Lead Users.
• Is in charge to review and propose SAP modifications and access creations and DOA for DW PM Users to UNISUP Support.

Profile
The holder of this post must have the following qualifications:

• Education: B.Sc / BEng in Engineering
• Professional experience: Minimum 10 years in E&P business especially in Maintenance and Inspection support position and minimum experience of 5 years on Unisup
• Good knowledge of planning tools and of SAP based CMIMS tools
• Skills required: Good presentation and communication skills
• Good knowledge of planning tools and of SAP-based CMIMS tools.

Languages:

• English (E-Native or bilingual proficiency).

Working at Spie
What can we offer you?
We offer a variety of stimulating and evolving experiences: exciting projects, learning from professionals and immersed in international culture.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: SMART Room Maintenance Engineer

Job Identification: 2024-35575
Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Employment Type: Temporary work contract
Contractual hours: Full Time
Contract duration: TBC

Job Description

• SPIE Services Nigeria Limited is currently looking for SMART Room Maintenance Engineer to join its work force in Nigeria.

Responsibilities shall include

• Provide specialist technical/engineering advice and guidance to site personnel on the operation and maintenance of
  plant/equipment ensuring highest safety standards, a timely response to queries and minimal disruption to operations.
• Manage day to day maintenance activities within the Akpo Smart Room, ensuring adequate liaison to support the sites current
  and forthcoming activities.
• Provide site maintenance personnel with direct technical support including WO Backlogs review, and daily WO technical validation (WTA WO status removal) on SAP (UNISUP)
• Provide work direction and technical guidance, checking work/project progress, identifying resources, setting priorities and time schedules.
• Ensure planned maintenance look ahead is reviewed and prepared, balance available resources on site with forthcoming monthly PM activity.
• Anchor monthly Preventive Maintenance review process.
• Review monthly maintenance report, create and maintain action plan to keep on track of performance.
• Main Interface for site Head of Maintenance to assist with critical activities.
• Provide initial breakdown support and guidance to site team during fault finding, repair methodology, vendor requirements and materials availability.
• Review status of offline plant and equipment and ensure its availability and that standby equipment is serviceable.
• Track, report and prevent maintenance related missing achievable production.
• Manage backlog of maintenance activities.
• Make recommendations on preferred contractors and coordinate vendors, materials and equipment for planned and unplanned
  activities, monitoring and controlling manpower usage, vendor/contractor performance and expenditure. Participate, as appropriate in vendor/contractor audits.
• Identify work (in conjunction with maintenance planner) that can be liquidated in campaign type approach when critical equipment is taken offline.
• Advise on shutdown reports from a maintenance perspective to ensure appropriate actions are added and completed.
• Develop and maintain highly effective and productive relationships with internal and external contacts.
• Liaise with Tier 2 and Discipline managers for technical and contractual support.
• Proactively monitor, review and analyze plant and equipment performance using Smart Signal diagnostic tool and provide feedback to Line Management, identifying opportunities to maximize equipment performance, and by extension production performance. Also, share best practices.
• Continuously provide insights into condition asset health monitoring by collecting all vital/important performance data and also
• contextualizing asset failure data in order to generate potential failure predictions that can improve production and plant availability.
• Continuously optimize failure thresholds of running equipment from the connected and collected data records in the SMART Room dashboards and keeping the real-time monitoring as close and tuned to running site conditions.
• Key actor to the 2 weeks look-ahead planning (2WLAP) followed by SMART Room, and the integrated campaigns working with Smart Room Planner.
• Responsible for the follow-up and reporting of all safety critical elements performance on site and release of the weekly Safety Outlook and Inhibitions report, as well as weekly summary slides for the FOPS Performance meeting.
• Together with the SMART Room Production engineer, alternate the issuance of weekly GHG Emissions performance report and Energy Efficiency performance report for the asset.
• Contribute to the development of strategies for the maintenance, inspection and operation of plant/equipment to ensure that all
  plant and equipment meet verification and compliance requirements.
• Develop and maintain good working relationships with site personnel through effective communication and by making regular

Qualifications / Experience Required

• First Degree in Mechanical Engineering is preferred. Other engineering disciplines would also be considered.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in maintenance of oil and gas process facilities / equipment, including rotating equipment, lifting equipment, instrumentation and electrical equipment.
• Good knowledge of operational site activities
• Good knowledge of onshore/offshore process and production systems
• Experience of working in an offshore environment
• Experience of a collaborative working environment will be an advantage
• Must be very analytical with ability to propose innovative and workable alternatives or solutions
• Strong communication and interface management skills to work efficiently in transverse mode.
• Must have strong reliability centered attitude to maintenance follow-up.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: OJT Electrical Trainer

Reference ID: 2024-36184
Locations: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Job type: Full-time

Job Summary
We are primarily looking for a candidate who demonstrates the following skills:

• Deliver theoretical and OJT programmes for electrical & instruments technicians, supervisors, specialists and graduate engineers to enable a common high level of competence.
• Responsible for the implementation and compliance of the E&I Engineering and Maintenance Team Competence assurance system across the Spie business in all assets.
• Support line managers in identifying needs and ensuring these needs are met in a consistent and cost effective manner.

Responsibilities
Principal responsibilities shall include:

• Deliver theoretical and OJT programmes for electrical & instruments technicians, supervisors, specialists and graduate engineers.
• Develop and prepare all course teaching materials and visual aids liaising as required with the Recruitment Team. This will also include any course reference materials and/or student workbooks.
• Maintain electronic and hard copy of all individual training records and to provide accurate reports as and when required.
• Provide the client with detailed student progress reports containing the assessment, level of competence, attendance and behaviors of the trainees.
• Liaise with equipment vendors and any additional specialist instrumentation suppliers to ensure that teaching materials support the knowledge required for a trainee to develop satisfactory workplace competence.
• Conduct instrument and control overview training program for production personnel and others requiring a basic presentation on the plants operational control features.
• Design appropriate courses for the trainees and to schedule their release to the operational plant to enable them to quickly develop and utilize their new skills on the job.
• Conduct refresher training courses and additional remedial program if requested

Requirements
We are primarily looking for a candidate who demonstrates the following skills:

• You have extensive experience working in the Oil & Gas Services industry as an Electrical & Instrumentation Trainer.
• Good knowledge & usage of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online