Crane & Lifting Equipment Engineer - Norwich, United Kingdom - Perenco

Description

Full-time

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This is a great opportunity for an enthusiastic individual to join our Cranes & Lifting Appliances team, working from our Engineering Support office based in Norwich. The successful individual will be supporting 38 Cranes and 37 lifeboats across our offshore assets in the Southern North Sea (SNS).

This position will primarily be looking after our Villages, Laps & West Sole fields consisting of 19 cranes & 18 Lifeboats of varied makes & models. This will also include assisting the onshore team where needed, also travelling offshore to assist in projects, breakdowns & SAS audits where necessary. Additionally, you will be responsible for issues relating to the integrity, maintenance, safe operation of lifting appliances and lifeboats, breakdowns and projects relating to upgrades & overhauls.

This is a Monday-Friday office based role with occasional travel to onshore and offshore assets.

Key Responsibilities Include:

•To manage operational issues/work scopes relating to lifting appliances and their associated equipment.

•Ensure compliance with all legal (LOLER), health, safety and environmental legislation and best practice for all aspects of lifting operations.

•Improve lifting appliance reliability and availability by promoting good planning, tackling root causes, effective use of intervention capability and reducing maintenance backlog.

•Manage costs by controlling spending and promoting a challenging cost culture to ensure we get value from suppliers and contractors.

•To specify new and replacement equipment for use at operational locations, ensuring they meet Perenco UK specification and meet the requirements of legislation.

•To monitor offshore maintenance requirements, keeping backlog levels within targets specified which will include preparation and review of deferrals that arise from planning meetings & end of trip assessments.

•Review of Slew Bearing Deferrals and interrogate the data entered into it, grease sample analysis & load data ensuring it's ready for Technical Authority review / approval.

•To ensure lifting appliances are in compliance with Perenco's verification scheme and subsequent performance standards.

•Manage projects relating to cranes & lifeboat i.e. pump & motor changeouts/upgrades, SLI upgrades and major component replacements all from purchase to commissioning.

•Being the focal point for specified Cranes & Lifeboats on all issues.

•Contribute, create, and own MOCs when required.

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Safety & Environmental Critical Tasks:

•Management of change - With a good understanding of the management of change process and based on operational experience, create and review PMP's for offshore modifications. This requires judgement to ensure asset integrity is maintained.

•Risk Management – Understand and manage onshore and offshore lifting appliances to ensure that Perenco UK is not taking inappropriate risks in executing their work. This requires a thorough knowledge of HSE acceptable standards, risk management tools and practical operational experience to ensure the correct risk (benefit analysis is carried out).

•Incident and accident investigation – be able to thoroughly investigate incidents and accidents involving lifting appliances to ensure lessons are learned.

Key Requirements Include:
Qualifications/Experience:

•Qualified to a minimum of HNC/HND level with experience in the offshore industry is preferred.

•Crane and Lifting Appliance experience in the offshore industry

•Strong operational knowledge of various makes & models of lifting appliances

•Sound knowledge of engineering, maintenance, planning, logistics and relevant legislation (LOLER, PUWER, SOLAS etc)

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Benefits:

At Perenco we value and reward our people, offering competitive salaries and a wide range of benefits including:

•Life Assurance

•Private Medical Insurance

•Flexible Benefit Allowance

•Excellent Pension Provision

•25 Days Holiday

•Discretionary Bonus

•Profit 'Units' Sharing Scheme

Position location

Job location

Europe, United Kingdom, Norwich

Precision

Candidate criteria

Education level

Other

Experience level

4 to 10 years