Job description

• Identify job requirements for personnel, equipment and welding consumables prior to offshore mobilization

  
  

• Select welders for each job and monitor their performance

  
  

• Coordinate with welding inspectors and third party NDT personnel

  
  

• In charge of all welding activities on board the vessel and job site.  Reports to the field engineer and barge superintendent

  
  

• Full responsibility over Welding Foremen, pipe facing machine operators, spacers, pipeline welders and helpers assigned for the project

  
  

• In charge of issuing his welders with safety gears required for the job and control the supply of these gears

  
  

• Responsible for implementing the applicable welding and QA/QC procedures

  
  

• Conducting tool box meeting with welding crew and promote safety awareness among them

  
  

• Close monitoring of consumption of welding electrodes and other related material and report short-falls or request replenishment ahead of time to warehouse and field engineer

  
  

• Coordination with client, third party and inspection team

  
  

• Capable of interpreting radiography films and be conversant with client specifications and welding standards.

  
  

• Trouble shooting welding problem and maintain progress

  
  

 Compliance in accordance with section/Company policies & procedures, Policy of Integrity & Code of Conduct & HSE standards

• Identify job requirements for personnel, equipment and welding consumables prior to offshore mobilization

  
  

• Select welders for each job and monitor their performance

  
  

• Coordinate with welding inspectors and third party NDT personnel

  
  

• In charge of all welding activities on board the vessel and job site.  Reports to the field engineer and barge superintendent

  
  

• Full responsibility over Welding Foremen, pipe facing machine operators, spacers, pipeline welders and helpers assigned for the project

  
  

• In charge of issuing his welders with safety gears required for the job and control the supply of these gears

  
  

• Responsible for implementing the applicable welding and QA/QC procedures

  
  

• Conducting tool box meeting with welding crew and promote safety awareness among them

  
  

• Close monitoring of consumption of welding electrodes and other related material and report short-falls or request replenishment ahead of time to warehouse and field engineer

  
  

• Coordination with client, third party and inspection team

  
  

• Capable of interpreting radiography films and be conversant with client specifications and welding standards.

  
  

• Trouble shooting welding problem and maintain progress

  
  

 Compliance in accordance with section/Company policies & procedures, Policy of Integrity & Code of Conduct & HSE standards

Secondary School Certificate with a discipline-specific Technical qualification, or equivalent

Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in Oil & Gas Industry

• Solid knowledge of pipeline welding using SMAW or FCAW processes and automatic welding using GMAW (pulsed) process in 5G downhill position, air-arc gouging and repair welding

  
  

• Good standard of written and spoken English

  
  

• Computer Literacy

  
  

• All offshore safety training requirements 

  
  

• Working knowledge of pipeline welding codes such as AP1 1104, DNV OS-F 101, and BS 4515

  
  

• Sound technical knowledge in welding processes such as SMAW, FCAW (inner shield and outer shield), STT and welding of various materials like carbon steel, CRA clad steel

  
  

• Ability to read and understand welding procedure specification and inspection plan documents

  
  

Good report writing skills