Welding Manager

• Leadership & Supervision: Directs, trains, and manage welding engineering and installation welding teams, ensuring productivity and adherence to safety and quality standards

• Quality Control: Ensures all welding work is done according to established codes, international standards, and Client’s specifications

• Process Improvement: Identifies and implement improvements to welding techniques and equipment to optimize productivity, reduce costs, and maintain quality

• Safety Compliance: Maintains a strong focus on safety protocols, ensuring all welding activities follow workplace safety guidelines, to mitigate accidents and injuries

• Resource & Budget Management: Manages manpower, welding consumables and equipment, ensuring availability of resources for execution of projects on time while staying within budget

• Management of subcontractors: Preparation of Service Requisitions, Technical Evaluation and management of subcontractors for various engineering and pipelay related activities (manpower, equipment rental, services, ECA, etc.)

• Project Coordination: Works closely with PMT and Offshore Operations to ensure welding activities are completed on time, within scope, and in alignment with project goals

• Training & Development: Ensures welding installation teams are well-trained, up to date with qualifications, and equipped with the latest skills to meet evolving industry demands

• Collaboration: Coordinates with other departments (e.g. PMT, procurement, subcontracts, asset integrity, quality assurance etc.) to ensure smooth execution of welding operations

Estimation: Provision of inputs to Contracts department for bidding of new projects. Estimation and procurement of pipeline welding equipment and auxiliary equipment for future pipelay projects 

• Leadership & Supervision: Directs, trains, and manage welding engineering and installation welding teams, ensuring productivity and adherence to safety and quality standards

• Quality Control: Ensures all welding work is done according to established codes, international standards, and Client’s specifications

• Process Improvement: Identifies and implement improvements to welding techniques and equipment to optimize productivity, reduce costs, and maintain quality

• Safety Compliance: Maintains a strong focus on safety protocols, ensuring all welding activities follow workplace safety guidelines, to mitigate accidents and injuries

• Resource & Budget Management: Manages manpower, welding consumables and equipment, ensuring availability of resources for execution of projects on time while staying within budget

• Management of subcontractors: Preparation of Service Requisitions, Technical Evaluation and management of subcontractors for various engineering and pipelay related activities (manpower, equipment rental, services, ECA, etc.)

• Project Coordination: Works closely with PMT and Offshore Operations to ensure welding activities are completed on time, within scope, and in alignment with project goals

• Training & Development: Ensures welding installation teams are well-trained, up to date with qualifications, and equipped with the latest skills to meet evolving industry demands

• Collaboration: Coordinates with other departments (e.g. PMT, procurement, subcontracts, asset integrity, quality assurance etc.) to ensure smooth execution of welding operations

Estimation: Provision of inputs to Contracts department for bidding of new projects. Estimation and procurement of pipeline welding equipment and auxiliary equipment for future pipelay projects 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Preferably Mechanical, Metallurgical or Civil), or equivalent

• Minimum 12 years of related work experience in pipeline industry 

Technical Competencies

• Expertise in various pipeline welding processes (e.g., Mechanized GMAW, GTAW, SMAW, FCAW etc.) and weld repair processes (GTAW, SMAW, FCAW)

• Practical experience with pipeline welding equipment and auxiliary equipment (Internal Line Up Clamp, Pipe Facing Machine, Shielding Gas System etc.)

• In depth knowledge of international welding standards and codes (API, DNV and ASME)

Practical knowledge and interpretation skills for main NDT techniques used for installation of pipelines (X-Ray, MUT, AUT, MPI)