Fixed Equipment Integrity (FEI) Inspector at Astron Energy (Pty) Ltd.

Job Summary 

Responsible for completion of assigned tasks as a member of the Fixed Equipment Integrity Inspection Team and will participate in the planning and execution of turnarounds, both large and small. The position will include travel, alternate work schedules, on-call responsibilities and additional work day time dependent on plant conditions and assignments.

Key Job Responsibilities for this position may include but are not limited to the following:

•  Evaluate factors affecting the safe and reliable operating condition of the fixed equipment in assigned process units.
•  Inspection of fixed equipment, issuing recommendations for repair and documenting results in an electronic database.
•  Create, organize and execute on-stream and turnaround surveillance/inspection plans.
•  Maintain compliance with company policies and applicable industry codes and standards to assure mechanical integrity and reliable operation.
•  Enforce requirements of a mechanical integrity program through development and maintenance of established computer-based equipment inspection plans for fired and unfired boilers, process heaters, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, pressure safety/relief valves/devices and piping.
•  Identify, analyze and solve issues related to repeat failures or threats to mechanical integrity.
•  Participate in failure analysis / incident investigations to determine root cause and help develop long-term solutions to prevent failures.
•  Consistently communicate with Operations, Maintenance, Process and Mechanical Engineering Design personnel to ensure stakeholder engagement and multifunctional discipline problem solving.
•  Periodically requires working beyond the typical 40-hour work week including weekends and holidays.
•  Periodically requires alternate work schedules (shift work) and on-call coverage as part of an integrated response team
•  Ability to analyze data, calculate corrosion rates, predict remaining life, and determine damage/failure mechanisms for process equipment, piping, and tanks.
•  Use of Risk Based Inspection methodologies and knowledge of industry recognized codes and standards.
• Computer skills (Microsoft Office, Meridium, Maximo, SAP) needed to maintain the Refinery electronic condition monitoring and historical database and report findings and resolutions.

Minimum Qualifications Required

• Minimum Matric /N3 qualification plus industry experience and certifications
• 5+ years proven track record and Inspection experience working in the refining or petrochemical industry required
• SAQCC Competent Persons Pressure Vessels (CPPV)
• Currently holds one or more American Petroleum Institute (API) or National Board inspection certifications (API 510 – Pressure Vessel Inspection Code and API 570 – Piping Inspector)
• Software and Systems – must have fluency in Microsoft Office – Excel (Intermediate - Data input, Load sheet), Word (Intermediate – review of process and procedure, export of job cards)
• Periodically requires working beyond the typical 40-45 hour work week including weekends and holidays.
• Periodically requires alternate work schedules (shift work) and on-call coverage as part of an integrated response team
• Facial Hair policy adherence

Qualifications – additional / advantageous:

• B. Sc/ BTech/NDip in Mechanical or materials engineering or equivalent
• SAQCC Competent Persons Steam Generators (CPSG).
• API 653
• National Board of Inspectors Code (NBIC). 
• Certified SAQCC Inspector Pressure Equipment (IPE) an advantage.

Skills

• Regularly communicates with other organizations to promote cooperation and remove barriers.
• Moves decision-making to the person or group best able to make the decision.
• Develops clear, simple performance indicators linked to business objectives.
• Analytical Skills – Identifies root causes of problems.
• Knowledge of relevant industry codes & Standards
• Knowledge of industry recognized condition monitoring programs
• Experience with Maintenance information data management systems, e.g. Meridium, SAP