SME – Mechanical Integrity & Corrosion
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About the Role
Quest Global seeks a Subject Matter Expert in Mechanical Integrity & Corrosion to support deployment of AVEVA predictive analytics solutions for oil & gas clients. The role involves providing corrosion and mechanical integrity expertise, validating predictive models, and monitoring anomaly alerts.
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Responsibilities
- Support end to end deployment and operationalization of AVEVA predictive analytics and asset performance solutions across customer facilities.
- Provide corrosion and mechanical integrity subject matter expertise during asset onboarding, solution configuration, and model development phases.
- Correlate predictive model outputs with operational and integrity data including wall thickness measurements, corrosion rates, inspection findings, etc.
- Monitor and manage predictive anomaly alerts related to corrosion and integrity risks across deployed assets.
- Recommend proactive inspection, mitigation, repair, and operational intervention strategies prior to integrity failures or shutdowns.
- Support Risk Based Inspection (RBI), Fitness for Service (FFS), corrosion management, and integrity optimization initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Metallurgical, Materials, or Chemical Engineering
- Minimum 10 years of experience in corrosion engineering, inspection engineering, or mechanical integrity management within oil & gas, refining, petrochemical, or industrial environments
- Strong expertise in corrosion monitoring, degradation assessment, and integrity risk management
- Experience implementing or supporting RBI methodologies aligned with API 580 / 581
- Strong understanding of corrosion mechanisms, wall thickness management, integrity operating windows, Fitness for Service methodologies, inspection planning and execution
- Familiarity with integrity management systems, digital integrity platforms, and historian systems such as PI / OSIsoft or equivalent
Full Job Posting
Job Requirements
- Quest Global is looking for an SME – Mechanical Integrity & Corrosion to join their team in Abu Dhabi.
- The role involves supporting end to end deployment of AVEVA predictive analytics solutions.
Key Responsibilities Solution Deployment & Model Enablement
- Support end to end deployment and operationalization of AVEVA predictive analytics and asset performance solutions across customer facilities.
- Provide corrosion and mechanical integrity subject matter expertise during asset onboarding, solution configuration, and model development phases.
- Work closely with analytics, data science, product, and delivery teams to ensure predictive models accurately reflect corrosion mechanisms, integrity risks, operating conditions, inspection strategies, and historical degradation patterns.
- Support asset criticality assessments, use case definition, and identification of high value monitoring opportunities for pipelines, pressure vessels, piping systems, static process equipment, corrosion loops and circuits.
- Participate in model validation, alert tuning, calibration, and user acceptance testing (UAT) activities prior to go live.
- Correlate predictive model outputs with operational and integrity data including wall thickness measurements, corrosion rates, inspection findings, chemical injection data, process fluid composition, environmental and operational conditions.
- Validate model outputs against known degradation mechanisms, inspection history, and operating conditions to improve model accuracy and reliability.
- Provide engineering input to support expansion of predictive monitoring coverage to additional assets and integrity circuits.
Key Responsibilities Predictive Monitoring, Sustainment & Value Realization
- Monitor and manage predictive anomaly alerts related to corrosion and integrity risks across deployed assets.
- Assess alert severity, validate operational impact, and recommend appropriate prioritization and mitigation actions.
- Identify early indicators of internal corrosion, external corrosion, Corrosion Under Insulation (CUI), erosion corrosion, wall thinning, integrity degradation.
- Recommend proactive inspection, mitigation, repair, and operational intervention strategies prior to integrity failures or shutdowns.
- Collaborate with customer inspection, integrity, operations, maintenance, and reliability teams to plan and execute corrective and preventive activities.
- Review, validate, and operationalize AI/analytics driven recommendations generated through deployed AVEVA solutions.
- Support Risk Based Inspection (RBI), Fitness for Service (FFS), corrosion management, and integrity optimization initiatives.
- Ensure predictive models remain aligned with actual operating conditions, inspection strategies, and integrity management practices throughout the sustainment lifecycle.
- Act as the primary technical focal point during sustainment and managed service phases for assigned integrity and corrosion monitoring portfolios.
- Support continuous improvement, model refinement, and enhancement of predictive monitoring effectiveness.
- Track and report integrity and value realization KPIs including inspection deferrals justified, early wall loss detection, avoided integrity failures, reduced inspection costs, reduced unplanned downtime.
- Participate in governance meetings, technical reviews, workshops, and value realization sessions with customer stakeholders and project teams.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Metallurgical, Materials, or Chemical Engineering.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in corrosion engineering, inspection engineering, or mechanical integrity management within oil & gas, refining, petrochemical, or industrial environments.
- Strong expertise in corrosion monitoring, degradation assessment, and integrity risk management.
- Experience implementing or supporting RBI methodologies aligned with API 580 / 581.
- Strong understanding of corrosion mechanisms, wall thickness management, integrity operating windows, Fitness for Service methodologies, inspection planning and execution.
- NDT, inspection engineering, or integrity management background preferred.
- Familiarity with integrity management systems, digital integrity platforms, and historian systems such as PI / OSIsoft or equivalent.
- Familiarity with predictive analytics platforms, industrial AI systems, or digital reliability solutions preferred.
- Middle East or GCC operating environment experience preferred.
Preferred Certifications
- NACE / AMPP Corrosion Certification
- ICorr Certification
- API 580 / 581 RBI Certification
- API 510 / 570 preferred
- Fitness for Service (API 579) exposure preferred
Preferred Industry Experience
- Oil & Gas operators in the Middle East region
- Upstream production facilities
- Offshore operations
- Gas processing plants
- Refineries and petrochemical facilities
- LNG and industrial energy operations
Key Skills & Competencies
- Corrosion engineering and integrity management
- Risk Based Inspection (RBI)
- Wall thickness monitoring and degradation analysis
- Fitness for Service (FFS)
- Integrity data interpretation and analytics validation
- Inspection strategy optimization
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Technical governance and stakeholder engagement
- Cross functional collaboration and advisory capability
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