Senior Engineer, Cathodic Protection

Job description / Role

ABOUT THE JOB

Provide specialised technical advice, support and supervision over the performance of routine maintenance, installation, repair and adjustment on the cathodic protection system to ensure system availability and safe operations.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Maintenance Execution and Inspection

Supervise troubleshooting of cathodic protection and perform in-depth analysis of related problems of CP system to ensure continuous availability.

Supervise inspections and participate in corrosion management, risk evaluations, structural analysis and failure analysis of cathodic protection system to facilitate safe operations.

Direct external and internal painting works and supervise pin brazing and stud welding activities to ensure quality.

CP Systems Monitoring and Surveys

Supervise overall performance of cathodic protection systems to ensure meeting established schedules and instructions and highlight deficiency in the existing system.

Supervise the recording and plotting of potential reading and acts to bring up potentials wherever they are below protective levels; report major deviations for corrective action.

Supervise the devising methods and implementation to upgrade protective potentials by providing resistive bond, insulating joints, hot spot protection and adjusting current out puts.

Lead the assessment of equipment to identify corrosion and coating damages,

Cathodic Protection

Participate in soil resistively surveys and holiday detection surveys to detect cracks or defects in the protective coating.

Report damage from third party and report potential damage to Section leader and recommend appropriate remedial procedures.

Technical Expertise and Design / new installations

Provide specialised 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.

Define or 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

Ensures the updating and maintenance of the Inspection Management System records as well as the review & updating of procedures related to CP system, ensuring efficiency and timely completion of assignments.

- Bachelor's Degree in electrical engineering, Chemical Engineering
- At least 8 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.

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.