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Valves Maintenance & Repair Coordinator - Expat

Prasinox Energia
Posted 4 weeks ago

About Prasinox Energia

Prasinox is committed to delivering cutting-edge solutions in valves and oil and gas support equipment. Our integrated services cater to diverse industrial needs, ensuring reliability, efficiency, and safety across all operations.

Location

Luanda

Type

Contract · On-site

Education

HND

Key Responsibilities

  • - Coordinate valve maintenance, repair, testing, inspection, and certification activities across valve workshops and field locations.
  • - Provide advanced technical guidance and troubleshooting support for complex valve maintenance and repair activities.
  • - Ensure valve maintenance activities comply with applicable ASME, NBIC, API, and ISA requirements, OEM specifications, and Company procedures.
  • - Provide technical oversight of process valves, control valves, safety valves, pressure safety valves (PSVs), and pressure relief valves (PRVs).
  • - Review and verify valve repair, testing, inspection, and certification procedures and documentation.
  • - Provide technical direction on valve disassembly, inspection, repair, seat lapping, trim replacement, assembly, set-pressure verification, pressure testing, and re-certification.
  • - Coordinate valve shop and field activities across all Areas of Operations to ensure timely and effective execution.
  • - Interface with Company representatives regarding work schedules, technical requirements, priorities, performance, and escalated valve-related issues.
  • - Provide expert technical support for complex valve failures, recurring defects, and troubleshooting activities.
  • - Participate in valve failure investigations and support root-cause analysis and corrective action implementation.
  • - Monitor valve maintenance work quality and ensure compliance with approved technical and safety standards.
  • - Oversee the proper maintenance of valve repair, inspection, testing, certification, and traceability records.
  • - Support performance reporting, maintenance KPI monitoring, backlog management, and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • - Identify opportunities to improve valve maintenance reliability, turnaround time, quality, and cost-effectiveness.
  • - Develop and implement technical improvement initiatives for valve maintenance and repair processes.
  • - Mentor and coach National Lead Technicians and Technicians through hands-on technical guidance and structured knowledge transfer.
  • - Develop and deliver technical training, toolbox sessions, competency development, and on-the-job coaching for national personnel.
  • - Support the progressive transfer of technical knowledge and responsibilities to the national workforce.
  • - Promote standardization of valve maintenance practices across workshops and Areas of Operations.
  • - Ensure appropriate tools, testing equipment, spare parts, and technical resources are available to support valve maintenance activities.
  • - Work closely with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Inspection, Materials, HSE, and other stakeholders.
  • - Ensure all activities comply with Company HSE policies, Permit-to-Work systems, isolation procedures, risk assessments, and applicable regulatory requirements.
  • - Provide HSE leadership within valve maintenance activities and promote a strong safety culture.
  • - Participate in audits, inspections, management reviews, and technical assessments as required.
  • - Prepare technical reports, performance updates, KPI reports, and continuous improvement initiatives.  
  • - Perform other duties related to valve maintenance and reliability as assigned by management.

Requirements & Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree/HND in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology, or a related engineering discipline.

- Minimum of 8 years of extensive international experience in valve maintenance, repair, testing, inspection, and certification, preferably within the Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Refinery, LNG, or Process Industry.

- Professional engineering or relevant technical certification will be an advantage.

- Specialized qualifications in valve maintenance, pressure relief devices, inspection, or testing are highly desirable.

- Proven experience coordinating valve maintenance activities across multiple operational areas.

- Extensive hands-on and supervisory experience with process, control, safety, pressure relief, and pressure safety valves.

- Demonstrable experience with valve workshops and field maintenance operations.

- Strong experience in valve testing, set-pressure verification, repair, re-certification, and failure investigation.

- Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership and mentoring multinational or national technical teams.

- Previous expatriate experience in an Oil & Gas or similar industrial environment is strongly preferred.


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