Engineer, Cathodic Protection

Job description / Role

Job Purpose
Provide technical expertise, supervise and perform routine maintenance, installation, repair and adjustment on the cathodic protection system to ensure availability and safe operations.

Job Specific Accountabilities

Maintenance Execution and Inspection
- Analyse and perform troubleshooting of cathodic protection related problems for CP system to ensure continuous availability.
- Carryout inspections and participate in corrosion management, risk evaluations, structural analysis and failure analysis of cathodic protection system to facilitate safe operations.
- Supervise external and internal painting works and supervise pin brazing and stud welding activities to ensure quality.

CP Systems Monitoring and Surveys
- Monitor overall performance of cathodic protection systems to meet established schedules and instructions and highlight deficiency in the existing system.
- Supervise, record and plot the potential reading and take action to bring up potentials wherever they are below protective levels and reports major deviations for corrective action.
- Monitor and observe the devising methods and implementation to upgrade protective potentials by providing resistive bond, insulating joints, hot spot protection and adjusting current out puts.
- Participate in the assessment of equipment to identify corrosion and coating damages,
- Carry out soil resistively surveys and holiday detection surveys to detect cracks or defects in the protective coating.
- Monitor and report damage from third party and report potential damage to Supervisor for remedial action.

Technical Expertise and Design / new installations
- Provide technical support for development, implementation and commissioning of new projects in the cathodic protection installation to optimize costs and ensure compliance with applicable standards and best practices.
- Participate in defining the technical requirements, technical bid evaluation and inspection of equipment/ systems on receipt to ensure specifications and required quality.

Records and Procedures
- Update Inspection Management System records and review/ update procedures related to CP system to ensure efficiency and timely completion of assignments.

Bachelor Degree in Chemical Engineering or equivalent Professional Qualification

Minimum Experience, Knowledge & Skills

6 years of experience in carrying out cathodic protection monitoring, upgrading and inspection activities within a large industrial organization, preferably in the Oil and Gas industry.

Professional Certifications
- As applicable

About the Company

We are one of the world's leading energy producers, and a primary catalyst for Abu Dhabi’s growth and diversification.

We operate across the entire hydrocarbon value chain, through a network of fully-integrated businesses, with interests that range from exploration, production, storage, refining and distribution, to the development of a wide-range of petrochemical products.

Since 1971, we have created thousands of jobs, driven the growth of a diverse knowledge-based economy, and played a key role in Abu Dhabi’s global emergence.

Today, we continue to look for new and innovative ways to maximize the value of our resources, pioneering those approaches and technologies that will ensure we are able to meet the demands of an ever-changing energy market, and continue to have a positive impact on the Abu Dhabi economy for generations to come.