Josiah Okorie, Instrument Field Engineer

Josiah Okorie

Instrument Field Engineer

Maire Tecnimont

Lieu
Nigeria - Lagos
Éducation
Diplôme, Electrical Engineering
Expérience
14 years, 10 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :14 years, 10 Mois

Instrument Field Engineer à Maire Tecnimont
  • Nigeria - Port Harcourt
  • Je travaille ici depuis avril 2022
Shift Engineer-Electrical & Instrumentation à West African Soy Industries Limited/TGI Group
  • Nigeria - Shagamu
  • juin 2019 à mai 2022

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
• Consistently meeting daily maintenance and reporting targets, and documented and resolved Profibus failures, facilitating downtime reduction of critical equipment
• Ensuring continual improvements to working conditions and guaranteed compliance to HSE standards
• Accurately performing on-site field surveys and writing technical narratives to document processes and design changes
• Directing the activities of Electrical and Instrumentation Technicians during shifts, ensuring proper functioning of instruments and electrical components, and accurately training new employees
• Offering engineers, technicians, and designers’ technical direction on SEP/PREP projects and initiatives and supervising the control panel wiring/termination team
• Efficiently monitoring and inspecting motor running load, temperature, bearing conditions, vibration, and VFD performance as well as developing the PPM framework
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Generating the instrument index, I/o list & count, specifications, wiring, loop/hook-up diagrams, and BOM
• Carrying out research to test and analyse feasibility, design, operation and performance of equipment, components, and systems
• Successfully calibrating, troubleshooting and maintaining Temperature (RTD & TC), pressure, flow, level, analytical transmitters/sensors, proximity, limit switch, valves /actuators, and VFD-controlled motors in the Silo conveyors, Tank Farm, Refinery, Preparation, Solvent Extraction, Effluent Treatment, and Acid plants
• Creating a control panel operation sequence and ensuring correct operation and maintenance of the power plant generators
• Configuring SPI projects and managing PPM data base for instruments/equipment and testing to ensure that all rewound motors are within required specifications

Instrument Technician à Prime Atlantic Cegelec
  • Nigeria
  • mars 2018 à août 2018

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
• Consistently met the eight-loop daily target and made continual improvements to working conditions, ensuring zero injuries or accidents, as well as compliance with HSE standards
• Collaborated with a team of 24 in the Commissioning of EGINA FPSO project, supervised a team of eight staff, and won the most organised and diligent team of the E&I Department
• Revised instrumentation guidelines to address exceptions and provided required clarification and guaranteed safe systems of work by ensuring team members endorsed the Permit-To-Work
• Participated in the development of instrumentation operating procedures and provided technical support
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Performed diagnostic inspections to monitor automated systems and repaired issues both remotely and on-site
• Took part in design specification review meetings and collaborated with inter-departmental teams to align ongoing efforts and overall business goals
• Carried out loop checking, troubleshooting and maintaining the High Integrity Protection System (HIPS), Hydrocarbon Blanket/Recovery packages and production riser systems
• Efficiently troubleshot communication networks, temperature, pressure, level/analyser transmitters, indicators and switches
• Stroked control, SDV and ESD valves via the marshalling cabinets (Honeywell) and HMIs and ran earth integrity and leakage fault tests on instrument loop components

Electrical and Instrumentaion Supervisor à Bel Papyrus Limited
  • Nigeria
  • février 2013 à mars 2017

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
• Trained junior staff on machine operation and maintenance installations as a way to achieve project efficiencies
• Regularly met daily maintenance targets and conducted inspections on blocked towers to check for defects and eliminate machine downtime and supported the resolution of future issues by monitoring and reporting daily instrument performance
• Conducted electrical acceptance testing of completed hardware, including continuity and high-potential isolation testing
• Dismantled, repaired and installed pumps, drivers and associated instrumentation; checked for malfunctioning sensing elements, and calibrated Thermocouple/RTD, D/P cell, ratio and analyser transmitters, flow meters, and valves
• Performed maintenance procedures and repairs on existing electrical products and systems, and administered energised and de-energised testing on multi-design change packages
• Created, aligned and optimised electrical instrumentation and testing equipment and inspected completed installations to observe operations and verify conformance to design and equipment specifications

Maintenance Supervisor à Port Harcourt Refining Company, Ltd
  • Nigeria
  • août 2009 à juin 2012

Key achievements
• Increasing the contract win rate by 30% by developing positive customer relationships
• Reducing accident rates in hazardous areas by 90%
• Delivered a 20% reduction in overheads through the efficient delivery of housekeeping and final inspections

• Evaluating the scope of planned works, conducting market surveys and preparing tenders for submission
• Organising the mobilisation of staff, materials and equipment to the project site
• Advising and training personnel on column positioning, tunnel climbing and manhole loosening
• Dismantling, cleaning and repairing pressure test and couple heat exchangers and other equipment
• Managing documentation, reporting and inspection of the completed project

Pipe Fiter à GDP Construction
  • Nigeria
  • janvier 2008 à avril 2009

• Sketching piping systems and producing dimensioned drafts using AutoCAD
• Cutting steel pipes and aligning joints, elbows and flanges prior to welding
Key achievements
• Reducing project lead times by 2 weeks
• Reducing labour costs by 10%

Trainee à Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR
  • Nigeria
  • janvier 2002 à décembre 2002

Worked with rig floor and inspection crews in the drilling and completion of wells FY 38(TXZK-2) and TXZK-4)
-Engaged in 3-D seismic data acquisition at OML 119 (NPDC location) and OML 244, OML 79 (SNEPCO)
- Gauged crude oil tanks at Escravos (Chevron ) and Forcados ( SPDC) terminals
-Wrote reports to my supervisor in DPR for all operations attended to

Éducation

Diplôme, Electrical Engineering
  • à City and Guilds of London Institute
  • juin 2015

Level 5 IVQ Advanced Technician Diploma

Diplôme, Petroleum Engineering
  • à Petroleum Training Institute
  • novembre 2005

Higher National Diploma (HND)

Specialties & Skills

System Tuning
Calibration
Plant Operations
Electrical Installation
Instrument Calibration Troubleshooting and loop checking Commissioning
plant commissioning
maintenance management
maintenance engineering
operation
process control
programming
repairing
preventive maintenance
power systems
plant maintenance

Langues

Anglais
Expert

Adhésions

Internatinal Socity of Autmation
  • Professional Member
  • March 2018
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
  • Professional Member
  • April 2015

Formation et Diplômes

TOEFL IBT TEST (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
July 2023
Valide jusqu'à:
July 2025
TOEFL IBT TEST (Certificat)
Project Management Professional, PMP (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
March 2023
Valide jusqu'à:
March 2026

Loisirs

  • Sport and swimming
    Consistently meet the 8 loop daily target . Ensured compliance with HSE standards and continually improved working conditions thereby achieving zero injuries or accidents. Awarded the best organized and diligent team of the E & I department .