Principal Asset Integrity Engineer

Equinor ASA•St. John's, NL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The role is for a Principal Asset Integrity Engineer, in Exploration & Production International (EPI) Canada Operations and Maintenance (EPI CAN OM) organization, supporting the Bay du Nord project development. The position is focused on ensuring electrical, instrumentation, control, and operational systems are designed, built, commissioned, and prepared for operation in line with contractual, regulatory, technical integrity, cybersecurity, and operations readiness requirements. During the development phase of the project, this position will be embedded into a discipline engineering group. The primary focus will be supporting the discipline engineering follow up processes. An important aim for the role will be to build the requisite knowledge and experience needed to fulfill the technical integrity and facilities engineering goals once the asset begins operations.

Requirements

Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Capability to navigate conflicting agendas and are confident in advising parties on how to find common success.
Proven leadership and management skills.
Flexible to adopt new ways of working that are complex and actively communicate and advise others on how to do so, based on changing business environment.
High focus and commitment to personal and process safety.
Clear commitment to professional ethics and inclusiveness.
Bachelor or Master of Electrical Engineering degree.
Professional Engineers and Geoscientist of Newfoundland and Labrador Professional Engineering designation (or eligible to obtain designation).
10+ years of relevant work experience.
Comprehensive understanding of how safety and environmental critical element (SECE) performance is specified, verified and supported in an operational environment.
Extensive involvement in the design, construction and commissioning of electrical, instrumentation and control systems.
Implementing technical integrity management processes.
Supporting the operations of Newfoundland and Labrador offshore oil and gas assets.
Interpreting and applying C-NLOER Offshore Area Petroleum Offshore Framework regulations, international technical standards/ and Classification Society rules.

Nice To Haves

Electrical Engineering degree
professional engineering eligibility in Newfoundland and Labrador
strong leadership, communication, safety, ethics, and stakeholder management skills

Responsibilities

Verify design elements and systems follow local regulations and guidance and specifically, expected operational technical integrity outcomes.
Support discipline engineering reviews of design, construction, and contractor documentation (e.g., P&IDs, package specifications, action registers, technical queries and non-conformance reports).
Develop collaborative working relationships with contractors’ discipline engineering and pre-operations counterparts.
Risk workshops and reviews participation (i.e., HAZID, HAZOP, MOC, LOPA).
Participate in site inspections, milestone audits and package system acceptance tests.
Participate in development of both the design and operational SECE performance standards.
Support the cybersecurity assurance process for the operational technology network.
Support the development of the contractor’s Technical Integrity Management plan and processes and their implementation through such software tools as: the maintenance management system, RBI and RCM programs, and analytical dashboards.
Follow up contractor’s key operations readiness deliverables such as maintenance plan, sparing and obsolescence plan, critical operational tasks, management system and standard operating procedures.