Field Integrity Engineer

Job Title: Field Integrity Engineer

Location: Piper Offshore

Reports to: Offshore Installation Manager

The Field Integrity Engineer is a core member of the asset integrity team, accountable for ensuring the integrity of the asset, based on sound engineering knowledge. The focus of the role relies on combining sound technical integrity knowledge with its direct application on the asset. The Field Integrity Engineer ensures the quality of inspection, reporting and recommendations for follow-up. The Field Integrity Engineer also carries out inspection based activities where required competency allows.

• Maintain a thorough understanding of the fixed plant and equipment's condition and integrity, ensuring its status is consistently updated and effectively communicated to stakeholders in a timely manner
• Contribute directly to the development, validation, and optimisation of the risk based inspection (RBI) methodology
• Comprehend the rationale behind work programmes, ensuring they are executed and reported with precision and excellence
• Review, validate, and prepare detailed workpacks for inspection, fabric maintenance, and repair activities
• Uphold high standards in inspection quality, reporting accuracy and actionable recommendations for programme adjustments, fabric maintenance, or required corrective repairs
• Provide support for dynamic risk based decision making processes and remediation strategies
• Assess and determine asset conditions where integrity risks are identified during scheduled maintenance, project execution, drilling, or operational activities
• Investigate and evaluate the integrity of plant structures in response to concerns raised by on site personnel, management, independent competent persons (ICP), or regulatory bodies
• Facilitate workforce engagement on integrity related topics, review workforce feedback, and incorporate it into decision making processes
• Execute inspection requirements and collaborate as part of a team to ensure the effective delivery of planned inspection activities
• Maintain a firm understanding of the threat cyber attacks pose in both regular IT (information technology) and OT (operational technology / industrial automation) environments and the potential consequences of such attacks
• Ensure effective planning and preparation of inspection, fabric maintenance and repair work pack content:
• Maintain knowledge of the physical condition of all SCE, ECE & PCE fixed plant and structures on the assigned asset
• Provide input to review and validate the integrity management system including RBIs, asset strategies and corrosion control schemes
• Provide integrity input to the planning process, validating all planned activities
• Ensure all inspection activities are planned with the required multi-discipline input to allow all necessary preparatory works (access, isolations, cleaning etc) to be put in place in a timely manner
• Proactively identify and promote innovative inspection techniques, reducing costs without compromising the integrity of the plant
• Coordinate ISSOW requirements for integrity activities while at site
• Ensure the quality of inspection, its associated reporting, and recommendations for programme revision, FM remediation or required corrective repair:
• Coordinate and manage work allocation for inspection teams to ensure they are fully productive
• Manage integrity activities on site ensuring they are conducted and reported in accordance with company procedures
• Provide input for options, scoping and prioritisation of repairs, including fabric maintenance
• Provide direction on, and preparation of, inspection reports for all integrity scopes, and raise any necessary repair orders in the WMS to rectify anomalies, ensuring the correct work criticality is assigned
• Manage and coordinate vessel inspections, including validation of work scope upon initial entry into vessel
• Intervene and determine the condition of the asset, where integrity threats may be exposed during planned maintenance, project, drilling or operations activity:
• Inspect and evaluate site integrity where work fronts are exposed through non-inspection related activity
• Document and report the integrity of plant and equipment exposed through non-inspection related activity
• Communicate and elevate where appropriate integrity threats in a timely manner
• Execute inspection requirements and collaborate as part of a team to ensure the effective delivery of planned inspection activities:
• Conduct detailed visual,…