Senior Integrity Engineer
Date: Mar 11, 2023
Location: Aberdeen, GB
Company: Apache Corporation
Company Overview
Our primary product is energy, and where there is affordable, abundant energy, people are healthier, have access to better education, and are given greater opportunities to elevate their families to higher standards of living.
Nearly 3 billion people — roughly one-third of the global population — live without electricity or without clean cooking facilities. We are committed to providing energy in innovative and more sustainable ways to help raise the standard of living for those living in energy poverty and to meet the ongoing demands of people and economies around the world.
The products we deliver power increasingly cleaner electricity across the globe, fuel tractors and trucks, make fertilizer to keep the world's food supply on the table, and heat our schools, hospitals and businesses.
Our employees bring a wide range of talents and skills to the job every day to tackle complex business challenges. We believe in providing a truly rewarding work environment supported by a benefits platform that ranks among the best in our peer group. Our company offers career development opportunities where employees can grow personally and professionally. We promote employee benefits that cultivate a family-friendly work environment and focus on our employees' overall well-being.
We are committed to being a workplace where all employees are valued and can thrive with a sense of belonging. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion benefits our individual employees, our company and our external stakeholders; we are better as an organization when various ideas and perspectives are brought to the table.
Apache Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA). Apache has operations in the United States, Egypt's Western Desert and the United Kingdom's North Sea and a sister company with exploration opportunities offshore Suriname. Whether supporting Apache, APA Corporation or one of its subsidiaries, team members are employed by Apache Corporation.
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Specific Responsibilities
Advise and assist Asset Management with respect to all activities impacting Technical Integrity, planning and budgeting for integrity management and monitoring activities associated with the topsides pressure system and pipelines subsea infrastructure
Prepare and update Pressure System Integrity Management Strategies and supporting documents, including Equipment Registers, Risk Matrices and Risk-Based Assessments.
Support the implementation of the Pressure System Integrity Management Strategies.
Ensure Written Schemes of Examination / Risk-Based Inspection Schemes are developed and in place and actively managed to verify assumptions and ensure that emerging damage mechanisms are identified and effectively mitigated.
Review Inspection findings and assess the impact of any topsides pressure system degradation and subsea pipeline degradation (including free spans, buckling, on-bottom stability, trawl damage and fouling by ocean detritus etc) taking appropriate action where necessary.
This may include the requirement to be on standby to review in-line inspection findings and undertake assessment activity while ROV / DSV remains on station.
Proactively manage, or ensure delegated person, actively manages, all anomalies through sentencing and prioritisation, based on consequence and probability of failure (CoF & PoF), and actively managed to close out.
Participate in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and failure investigations and support close-out of actions raised to prevent recurrence.
Proactively support the definition of specifications and requirements for Material Selection and Management of Change (MoC) to improve performance. Drafting and issue of Project initiation Scope of Requirements documents
Support the update of Integrity Risk Assessments, where necessary, eg. post inspection.
Maintain Pressure System Integrity Assurance Databases.
Understand and manage the impact of aging asset infrastructure.
In collaboration with all disciplines within the Integrity Management function, report the Integrity Status to Senior Management through Quarterly & Annual Reports.
Provide technical support as required. Conduct periodic audits of the integrity management process for pressure systems and pipelines.
Attend Asset Meetings and appraise host installation management of topsides pressure system, pipeline, riser and subsea structures integrity status and threats to integrity / emergent hazards. Also, to provide early warning of emergent hazards and threats to safe operation of the host installation.
Manage, support and proactively engage with Pressure System & Pipeline Integrity Management vendors.
Provide interface with ICP in enactment of Verification Activity and manage the close out of any subsequent Verification Anomalies relating to corrosion. (SCR / DCR / PFEER / PSR).
Qualifications & Experience
Preferably the candidate should be a Chartered Engineering or actively working towards achieving that status
Accredited Bachelors or Honours degree in engineering or technology, or equivalent
Relevant engineering experience
Competencies
The successful candidate should demonstrate and exhibit the following core competencies:
- Communication: Writes, speaks, and presents information effectively and persuasively across communication setting;
- Results: Pursues work with energy, drive, and results orientation to positively impact Apache's business success;
- Collaboration: Works in partnership with others and encourages different perspectives, while building and maintaining trust; and
- Culture: Willingness and ability to align one's behavior with the needs, priorities, and goals of Apache.
Apache Statement on Hiring
To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to base all employment-related decisions and actions exclusively on employment-related criteria. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to provide broad dissemination of job opportunities, as consistent with the nature of the positions. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to review its employment-related policies and actions on a regular basis to ensure that their application is consistent with their intent.
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