Integrated Services Inspection Project Coordinator

Integrated Services Inspection Project Coordinator

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Bilfinger UK is a leading engineering and maintenance provider, supporting customers across the chemical & petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & biopharma, power & energy, utilities, renewables and food & beverage markets. We enhance the efficiency of assets, ensuring a high level of availability and reducing maintenance costs.

We have extensive experience in offshore and onshore facilities; specialising in asset management services throughout all life cycle phases from consulting, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning.

This commitment is delivered by an experienced and highly competent workforce of over 4,500 employees operating from 14 offices in strategic industrial hubs, upholding the highest standards of safety, compliance and quality.

Onshore inspection Coordinator is the focal point of a designated asset with responsibility for day-to-day coordination with the onsite Inspection Team and the Integrity Discipline(s) for technical evaluation & examination activities, specification of inspection equipment & materials and alignment of competent personnel for Risk Based Inspection and Inspection provision for Remediation & Construction activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Understands Risk Based Inspection objectives and applied NDT inspection techniques employed to meet said objectives.
• Manages and supervises discipline issues, directing Project Engineer colleagues on cost, service, operational & technology issues.
• Provides functional guidance to inspection vendors or subcontractors on NDT Inspection discipline specific matters.
• Ensures work meets company quality standards and is produced in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Primary interface between onshore inspection and onsite Integrity Engineering team for designated asset(s).
• Receives direction & reports progress to the Inspection Focal Point Engineer, prioritising technical evaluation & examination activities, specification of inspection equipment & materials, and alignment of competent personnel for Risk Based Inspection and Inspection provision for Remediation & Construction activities.
• Aligns discipline requirements of the role and delegates operational requirements to the Project Engineer, providing assurance.
• Supports Inspection personnel and other contractors in the prioritisation and planning of work.
• Interfaces with Installation Integrity Engineer(s) & Integrity Discipline(s) to clarify NDT inspection techniques to meet integrity objectives.
• Reviews Work pack requirements, inspection reports, isometrics, vessel general arrangements and P&ID drawings, coordinating activities to ensure practical equipment provisions and personnel competence requirements are met timely.
• Liaises with Installation Integrity Engineer to maximise opportunistic inspection of vessels, plant and equipment at client request.
• Provides technical advice to ensure ad-hoc inspections are completed and integrity of units are fully assessed.
• Maintains up-to-date knowledge of innovative & advanced NDT techniques.
• Ensures assurance of UKAS accredited NDT techniques and knowledge of integrity threats & mitigation suitability.
• Liaises with Asset Focal Points, discipline Engineers and Site Integrators to ensure workscope readiness and gate compliance for inspection and support related activities.
• Attends regular planning meetings and asset specific meetings.
• Reviews and estimates checksheets in the client’s Maintenance Management System to ensure support, personnel and equipment requirements are identified for efficient planning.
• Conducts pre‑mobilisation briefs with technicians to communicate safety expectations, workscope details and provide Maintenance Management System familiarisation.
• Ensures timely submission of deferrals to discipline Engineers in the client system for workscopes that cannot be executed before the target completion date.
• Ensures Quality & Technical Governance checks are carried out on inspection reports to maintain compliance as per UKAS 17020 accreditation.
• Assures that Project Engineer work related to CTRs meets both technical & quality requirements and facilitates timely completion and submission to client.
• Submits weekly working hours, ensuring correct coding and processing in line with contract.
• Ensures invoicing data are aligned to correct labour & plant prior to submission to client, assisting with queries as required.
• Amends / gives direction to the Project Engineer on CTR technical requirements / amendments before submission to client.
• Specifies Inspection Plant, Material and Equipment requirements for any new scopes to the Inspection Project Engineer.
• Assists Asset Focal points and the Inspection Focal point with activities of sub‑contractors / 3rd Parties for work required.
• Liaises and plans with Bilfinger ANDT Team for any planned and emergent advanced inspection scopes.
• Liaises and plans with Bilfinger Inspection and Rope access Stores Teams for all Inspection Equipment requirements.

Essential Qualifications

• ASME Plant Inspector Level 1 / meets competence requirements to UKAS RG2 Cat 3.
• Experience of ‘in‑service’ plant inspection and NDT in an offshore environment.
• Proven ability to work without supervision and to provide effective supervision to others.
• Experience within a relevant discipline, with at least one year spent in an engineering discipline associated with the relevant field of inspection.
• Experience in inspection in a relevant process industry, with the majority of experience elements applied in inspection tools and techniques.
• Ability to read and interpret commonly used engineering drawings and data sets (piping isometrics, vessel general arrangements, P&ID, process flow diagrams, piping schedules).
• Detailed knowledge of the uses and limitations of commonly applied non‑destructive examination techniques (MPI, DPI, UT, radiation techniques).
• Working knowledge of specialist NDE techniques applied in support of above‑water inspection and monitoring programmes (pulsed eddy current, thermography, time‑of‑flight diffraction, CHIME, etc.).
• Clear understanding of major discipline issues arising from oil and gas production systems; awareness of materials and key degradation mechanisms associated with offshore production facilities.
• Awareness of piping and vessel design codes (ASME VIII, PD5500, ASME B31.3).
• Computer literate with proven ability to use common Microsoft Office packages.
• Ability to effectively communicate and articulate inspection and corrosion issues at all levels within an offshore organisation.
• Fluency in the English language, capable of communicating effectively with peers, direct reports, sub‑contract personnel and immediate management.

Desirable Qualifications

• ASME Plant Inspector Level 2 / meets competence requirements to UKAS RG2 Cat 2.
• HNC/HND level in a relevant engineering discipline.
• PCN Level II or equivalent in MPI, DPI, and UT (UT must be 3.1/3.2 Plate and Pipe).
• Radiographic Interpretation (RI).
• Qualified and competent in all grades of ultrasonic weld inspection.
• IRATA Level I.
• PCN (or equivalent) Radiation Protection Supervisor (RPS).
• Qualified in Advanced NDT Techniques.

If you wish to speak to a member of the recruitment team, please contact 01224 246246 or email claire.dingwall@bilfinger.com.

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level

Employment type: Full‑time

Job function: Other