Corrosion Engineer

BH-242834

Posted: 16/08/2023
- Competitive- Qatar Qatar- Permanent- Oil & Gas**Job Purpose**:
Provides technical expertise in corrosion engineering ensuring the client's facilities are efficiently monitored and controlled to meet the company’s production objectives in a cost-effective manner while maintaining the highest level of integrity, safety and environmental compliance.**Key Job Accountabilities**:

- Participates in testing of coatings and cathodic protection systems for equipment and piping, including review of preliminary interpretation carried out by assigned Inspectors. Provides day-to-day support to operation as necessary to troubleshoot and investigate corrosion related issues to avoid process upsetsand VDT’s.
- Provides historical performance of equipment in the current installations to retrofit reviews on material and design requirements of new projects and modifications including the design requirement and monitoring criteria for all the Corrosion Programs like Cathodic Protection, protective Coating & lining,Chemical Inhibition and Corrosion Monitoring Systems and submits recommendations to supervisor.
- Monitors cathodic protection systems of tanks, pipes and pipelines and marine structures as applicable and arranges remedial corrective action where required. Also approves the designs of new cathodic protection systems, whether done in house or for larger projects to be installed by a contractor conducts corrosion monitoring and prevention activities and corrosion investigation. Includes monitoring Integrity Operating Windows affecting corrosion and equipment life and advising Operational suitability.
- Develops painting/coating requirements for pipelines, structures, equipment and tanks and gives recommendations to supervisor about selection of systems and procedures for proper quality control. Inspects paint condition and works with inspectors to conduct quality control checks for painting jobs.
- Conducts measurement of Electrical Resistant (ER) probes and corrosion coupons and maintains detailed records to establish trends and thereby corrective action to reduce corrosion, institute repairs and to recommend safe working life.
- Plans surveys of the onshore facilities or offshore platforms and supervises contractors carrying out such surveys, and maintains a database of results. Use database to help monitor the integrity of structures and initiate repairs where necessary.
- Arranges failure investigation and analyses to identify cause(s) and discuss recommendations with the supervisors before recommending the corrective action. Writes reports for failures after thorough analysis and provides recommendations to avoid recurrence.
- Prepares turnaround work lists based on on-stream and previous equipment corrosion history records and the frequency of inspection established. Determines critical equipment and pipelines and definestype and frequency of corrosion tests required.
- Review coating GVI report submitted by Coating Surveyors, evaluate and endorse risk and priorities forfurther evaluation by Inspection Engineer and maintenance coating repair. Perform risk screening for maintenance coating repair for respective assets as per procedure.
- Lead the shutdown corrosion inspection planning & execution of corrosion inspection jobs during the shutdown, defend them in RBI and participate during SD execution of the Assets, being assigned as Focalpoint.

**Qualifications**:
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Chemical,Metallurgical,Material).**Knowledge and/or Experience**:

- 4 years' experience in material selection, corrosion control and monitoring in an Oil and Gas related plant.
- Knowledge in chemical inhibition, corrosion monitoring, material selection, degradation mechanisms and failure analysis for sour service and utilities facilities.
- Proficient written and spoken English.

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