Employment Opportunities at Alfred & Victoria Associates

Alfred & Victoria Associates is one of Nigeria’s leading ICT solution based company. Our company offers a wide range of services which are in high demand of today’s emerging market. AVA has three major arms which have been streamlined to meet our customer's needs.

We are recruiting to fill the positions below:

Job Title: Electrical Maintenance Engineer

Location: Delta

Job Summary

• To ensure that all electrical generation / distribution / protection and control systems are safely operated and maintained in order to achieve oil / gas production targets and gas supply agreements while maintaining the highest level of HSE performance and integrity of the facilities.

Responsibilities

• Enforce the correct application of the Electrical Safety Rules (ESR) and procedures on all electrical maintenance activities in compliance with statutory and Corporate HSE requirements to protect personnel, facility, environment, and corporate image of the company.
• Initiate, implement and manage the maintenance strategies based on best practices in the industry, with an emphasis on planning / scheduling preventive /corrective maintenance to sustain the integrity of the facilities and products to meet the Corporate production objectives
• Prepare reports, data and make recommendations for improving operations and solving maintenance-related problems to meet production targets.
• Traveling to client locations for equipment inspection.
• Inspecting equipment and conducting routine maintenance.
• Servicing and replacing old or faulty equipment.
• Troubleshooting equipment malfunctions.
• Removing old equipment and installing new machines.
• Proving technical support and training on new equipment.
• Responding to customer call-outs.
• Adhering to all safety and performance regulations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or HND in Engineering or related fields.
• A minimum of 5 years of Electrical / Instrumentation maintenance experience in the oil & gas industry
• Good understanding of industry best practices and maintenance principles
• Ability to motivate coach and develop staff and manage interfaces with other teams.
• Proven work experience as a maintenance engineer.
• Knowledge of EPA and OSHA guidelines.
• Advanced knowledge of mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and heating systems.
• Ability to read system schematics.
• Advanced troubleshooting skills.
• Understanding of safety and equipment procedures.
• Good communication and training skills.
• Ability to work with heavy equipment.

Job Title: Associate Production Technologist

Location: Delta

Job Summary

• The role will involve extensive training on wellsite operations, provide appropriate support, under the supervision of the senior Production Technologist, to the identification of production improvement opportunities and production optimization studies in conjunction with the reservoir engineer and production geologist in the development team.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with the production department and ensure consistent testing and validation of well tests in the assigned field
• responsible for maintaining quality standards by inspecting and testing finished products to ensure they conform with specifications and codes. They do this before full-scale production begins, and periodically thereafter.
• identifies any problems, they must identify potential solutions and attempt to troubleshoot the issue using their technical knowledge. Problems could be mechanical errors, safety issues, or identified inefficiency.
• perform equipment setup, operation, equipment adjustments, and minor preventative maintenance tasks to meet all standards for safety, quality, and efficiency. They run tests on all assemblies and equipment to test for safety and productivity before they are put into production.
• Wellsite assignment for about 2 years; alternating between wellsite and office training.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or HND in Engineering or related fields.
• A minimum of 1 - 2 years relevant experience in an operating company.
• Data Management
• Wellsite Operations
• Production Systems
• HSE considerations in well management
• Operational experience will be an added advantage.
• Good motor skills and the ability to do fine assembly
• Ability to check for defects and identify and distinguish between colors
• Experience in a start-up or pilot production environment
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills
• Ability to read and carefully follow instructions
• Excellent attention to detail and good organization
• Capable of working independently to a production schedule.

Job Title: Senior Production Technologist

Location: Delta

Job Summary

• Deliver well & completions designs for all wells, Production optimization and multi-discipline projects in accordance with World Class Hydrocarbon Maturation and Well Delivery and Intervention Processes, and the deliverables set by the company requirements to optimize Oil & Gas recovery.

Responsibilities

• Lead Well performance modelling, sand prediction, sand control selection and upper completion design, perforating and smart well design for land and swamp operations.
• Work in an integrated study team (as a member or a study team lead) to mature opportunities.
• Make PT input into the field development plan.
• The goal is to optimally and profitably extract hydrocarbon from the Assets.
• Ensure compliance with well, reservoir and facility management, well integrity, control guidelines and taking appropriate actions in assigned field/s.
• This is to safeguard the assets and assure the reputation of the company.
• Contribute to the design, implementation and analysis of subsea drill stem tests
• Monitor and evaluate well, reservoir and field performance
• Advise other departments on physical constraints applicable to the production
• Mentor junior staff

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related fields.
• A minimum of 9 - 11 years relevant experience in an operating company.
• Proven experience with well completion design, well intervention activities, well modelling and production optimisation
• Good knowledge of gas lift operations and their design and operation
• Expertise in PVT analysis

Key Skills and Competencies:

• Well Modelling & Performance
• Production System Optimization
• Conformance Technology
• Well Integrity Management and Determining Well Operating Envelope
• Planning & Design of Well Intervention Activities
• HSE considerations in well management and completion operations
• Completion Design and supervision

Job Title: Instrument Maintenance Engineer

Location: Delta

Job Summary

• Coordinate and control all instrumentation and control equipment maintenance activities within the facilities to ensure that such standards are met at all times to ensure the technical integrity and availability of the facilities in order to achieve oil/gas production targets and gas supply agreements in line with Corporate objectives.

Responsibilities

• Perform mechanical inspections and interventions activities on pumps, compressors, gas/diesel engines, generators, etc. in line with planned schedules for flow station and gas plant facilities to ensure overall availability of the facilities to meet the Corporate production volumes.
• Initiate, implement and manage the maintenance strategies based on best practices in the industry, with an emphasis on planning /scheduling preventive / corrective maintenance to sustain the integrity of the facilities and products to meet the Corporate production objectives.
• To assist in the commissioning of new plant and DCS configuration.
• To liaise via unit reporting structure with the Company and DCS Service provider. Maintain a close working relationship with the DCS provider and if necessary suggest different alternatives to his direct responsible/ line management.
• Supervise closely Vendor Services on board. Prepare, follow and close out the visits with proper reports to the E/I Supervisor, Maintenance Superintendent, and OIM.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or HND in Engineering or related discipline.
• A minimum of 5 years of Instrumentation / Electrical maintenance experience in the oil & gas industry.
• Good understanding of industry best practices and maintenance principles.
• Time-management and multitasking abilities.
• Commercial awareness.
• Organization skills.
• Good verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Leadership and management skills.
• Hands-on experience with electric equipment.
• Fluent English.
• Skills in developing technical reports.

Job Title: LACT Unit Engineer Operator

Location: Delta

Job Summary

• To operate the Lease Automatic Custody Transfer (LACT) Unit and any other field meters including the Quality Loop as may be determined by the company to ensure accurate crude oil delivery into third-party manifold / Pipeline, safely and within agreed specification to ensure accurate production volume allocation to the company.

Responsibilities

• Operate, maintain and carry out daily checks on all the equipment on the LACT UNIT and prover Loop at specified intervals as may be determined by the company standard operating procedures to ensure accurate production volume measurements ad allocation to the company.
• Keep track and document hourly of the installed custody transfer meters, inline autosampler, line pressures, and other instruments on the LACT UNIT in other to ensure they are performing; at their optimal level to enhance production efficiency and meet allocated production volume delivery.
• Responding and troubleshooting alarm signals from the control units and rectifying abnormal conditions.
• To oversee all operation and maintenance activities within the location and report to the maintenance and operation supervisor.
• Provide regular and necessary feedback on all measurement issues at the LACT UNIT to designated authorities in other to ensure that the LACT UNIT is operated arid maintained at 100% availability level.
• Monitor and ensure the Lab Technologist carries out accurate monitoring of crude oil quality BS&W, API, etc.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or HND in Mechanical / Electrical / Electronics / Instrument / Petroleum Engineering disciplines or Numerical Sciences.
• A minimum of 5 years of oil & gas production operations experience
• Good understanding of industry best practices and maintenance principles
• Time-management and multitasking abilities
• Commercial awareness.
• Good verbal communication and interpersonal skills.

Job Title: Well Services Supervisor

Location: Delta

Job Purpose

• Implement and support Well services plan for well testing, well completion, and stimulation operations to achieve continuous improvement in good services performed as well as ensuring operational & technical excellence on all related well services activities aimed at achieving an ultimate goal of increased oil & gas production from all operated wells within the assets.

Responsibilities

• Participate in planning, monitor, supervision, and optimize well testing operations for all exploratory and appraisal wells, well completion, and well workover operations for all development wells and ensure they are carried out in a safe, efficient, and cost-effective manner and in compliance with HSE and operational commitments
• Participate in providing support to the Drilling Manager for well completions/testing/workover operations to enhance production volume.
• Hold Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) toolbox talk and pre-job safety meetings prior to executing critical completions and workover operational steps.
• Involve incompletions and workover equipment stock management.
• Ensure all materials required to perform the operation are mobilized on-site as per plan.
• Prepare all material request lists, offshore instructions, tallies as per written completions or workover program to safely and efficiently run operation

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Instrument, Electrical and Petroleum Engineering
• A minimum of 5 - 8 years relevant experience working in similar capacities on swamp and land wells.
• Extensive knowledge of completions and workover operations with the management of service companies

Key Skills & Competencies:

• Good communication skills; ability to communicate effectively at all levels within the organization and have the ability to collaborate both internally and externally with service and equipment providers.
• A positive mindset to frequent changes and new challenges.
• Ability to motivate team members to achieve set objectives
• Strong team player, comfortable communicating with people from a wide range of cultures and from different levels.
• Proven track record as a skilled and competent onshore (=office based) Well Services Supervisor.
• Ability to develop, review and critique intervention programs
• Contract Management experience and negotiating skills.
• Excellent verbal and written English skills.

Job Title: Well Services Lead

Location: Delta

Job Purpose

• Implement and support Well services plan for well testing, well completion, and stimulation operations to achieve continuous improvement in well services performance as well as ensuring operational & technical excellence on all related well services activities aimed at achieving an ultimate goal of increased oil & gas production from all operated wells within the assets.
• Coordinate all wellhead integrity activities to ensure life extension of the asset with a key focus on the safety of life, environment, and people.

Responsibilities

• Participate in planning, monitor, supervision, and optimize well testing operations for all exploratory and appraisal wells, well completion, and well workover operations for all development wells and ensure they are carried out in a safe, efficient, and cost-effective manner and in compliance with HSE and operational commitments.
• Participate in providing support to the Drilling Manager for well completions/testing/workover operations to enhance production volume.
• Contribute to developing procedures, and monitor their on-site implementation.
• Most ensure that all the rules in the specific quality assurance manual are fully applied and complied with.
• Working in liaison with the quality manager, you also check any updates to this manual.
• You monitor the certification of all tools and equipment to ensure that they comply fully with current state-of-the-art requirements, and ensure that all the relevant certifications are in place.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical / Instrument / Electrical / Petroleum Engineering.
• A minimum of 10 years relevant experience working in similar capacities on swamp and land wells.
• Sound knowledge of completion, work-over operations is expected.
• A valid IWCF or IADC certificate is compulsory.

Key Skills & Competencies:

• Good communication skills; ability to communicate effectively at all levels within the organization and have the ability to collaborate both internally and externally with service and equipment providers.
• A positive mindset to frequent changes and new challenges.
• Ability to lead and motivate team members to achieve set objectives
• Strong team player, comfortable communicating with people from a wide range of cultures and from different levels.
• Proven track record as a skilled and competent onshore (=office based) Well Services Supervisor.
• Excellent verbal and written English skills.
• Ability to develop, review and critique intervention programs.
• Contract Management experience and negotiating skills.

Job Title: Metering Engineer

Location: Delta

Job Purpose

• Responsible for all metering activities which include calibration, testing and repair, new facilities testing, and technical assessments to ensure accurate measurements of oil and gas and to minimize revenue losses due to meter in accuracies.

Responsibilities

• Implement the requirements of the metering policy and assume the responsibilities for the applicable metering and quality management inspection tasks to ensure metering integrity and prevent loss of revenue.
• Provide specialist metering and associated quality management inspection (including custody transfers and fiscal metering systems) maintenance support to all assets to ensure production efficiency through accurate volume measurements.
• Organize and supervise corporate cross-country move of critical technology, and manage the setup of initial infrastructure.
• Analyze malfunctions and equipment failures of various network operating systems such as servers, gateways, and routers used in radio communications systems
• Investigate the problems experience during testing and advocate the alternate testing procedure.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or HND in Instrumentation / Measurement & Control / Mechanical / Electrical / Petroleum Engineering.
• A minimum of 5 years technical professional with significant experience in oil and gas industry.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• flexibility and an ability to compromise.
• creative problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent verbal and written English skills.
• Projects and operations in measurement engineering with a hands-on understanding.
• Proactive, Independent, open-minded.
• Ability and desire to find technically and financially optimal solutions.

Job Title: Production Accounting System Custodian

Location: Delta

Job Summary

• Manages the usage and upgrade of the installed Production Data Management System (PDMS) as a tool for production data and operations management including hydrocarbon accounting and reporting to achieve corporate objectives and support commercial /business delivery.

Responsibilities

• Manage the implementation of new hydrocarbon accounting software ensuring all functional requirements are adequately covered to support business delivery.
• Configure the hydrocarbon accounting tools to always reflect the company’s physical integrated production system for accurate data allocations to reservoirs and wells to enhance business improvement.
• Verify integrity of base data supplied from field measurement systems prior to its use in the Hydrocarbon Accounting system.
• Creating and processing invoices
• Cross-checking invoices with payments and expenses to ensure accuracy
• Managing a company’s accounts payable and receivable
• Sending bills and invoices to clients
• Tracking organization expenses.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or HND in Engineering, Numerical Science or related field.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in the oil/gas industry.
• Knowledge of different cleaning products and tools.
• Time-management and multitasking abilities.
• Physical strength and stamina.
• Organization skills.
• Good verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Interpersonal Communication.
• Adaptability.
• Spreadsheet Proficiency.

Job Title: Corporate Hydrocarbon Accounting Business Analyst

Location: Delta

Job Summary

• Monitor the company’s business performance by adequately collating, organizing, and tracking Oil and Gas production data from ALL Assets’ production facilities and prepare reports/presentations to identify strengths and weaknesses to give the business more focus and clarity into their team’s work to improve business effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Collate, organize, and publish Oil & Gas production data on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis, in order to track production performance and enable management to take necessary steps to meet production targets.
• Ensure that all collated oil & gas production data are accurate and published in time to meet the monthly Reconciliation targets with partners and third-party injectors (HEOSL, SUMMIT OIL, NPDC Oredo & Pan Ocean) to support the business.
• Responsible for Corporate Production Records and Information Management on the Company`s Information Management System (SIMS), which entails correctly storing and effectively maintaining the various identified electronic libraries of Corporate Production to enhance production efficiency.
• Serve as an interface with DPR on the National Production Monitoring System (NPMS) application, for upload of all Company's production data to DPR's system, as a statutory obligation to the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR).
• Act as Focal Point for the running and maintenance of the Production page on the Company`s Intranet.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or HND in any Engineering discipline or Numerical Science.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in the oil/gas industry.
• Strong use of the Microsoft Suite, especially Microsoft Excel & PowerPoints.
• Time-management and multitasking abilities.
• Commercial awareness.
• Organization skills.
• Good verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Leadership and management skills.

Job Title: Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Location: Delta

Job Purpose

• Coordinate, support and supervise all mechanical activities within the asset to ensure that the facilities (oil & gas) and equipment are maintained, reliable and consistent with the company’s business objectives to achieve oil/gas production targets and gas supply agreement.

Responsibilities

• Perform mechanical inspections and interventions activities on pumps, compressors, gas/diesel engines, generators, etc. in line with planned schedules for flow station and gas plant facilities to ensure overall availability of the facilities to meet the Corporate production volumes.
• Prepare reports, data and make recommendations for improving operations and solving maintenance-related problems to meet production targets.
• Manage a team of outsourced maintenance contractors and ensure that maintenance contractors are adequately trained, equipped, and motivated so that the maintenance program can be accomplished in a safe, timely, and cost-effective manner.
• Inspecting equipment and conducting routine maintenance
• Servicing and replacing old or faulty equipment.
• Troubleshooting equipment malfunctions.
• Removing old equipment and installing new machines.
• Proving technical support and training on new equipment.
• Responding to customer call-outs.
• Adhering to all safety and performance regulations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or HND in Engineering or related field.
• A minimum of 5 years of mechanical maintenance experience in the oil & gas industry.
• Good understanding of industry best practices and maintenance principles

Key Skills & Competencies:

• An ability to work well under pressure.
• Troubleshooting problems on various types of equipment.
• Understanding how to read blueprints and system schematics.
• Knowing equipment safety systems and processes.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Relevant technical knowledge.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Efficiency and organization.
• Team working skills.

Job Title: Lead, Laboratory Chemist

Location: Delta

Job Purpose

• The role involves sampling, testing, analyzing, and data reporting of process fluids from company operations, manage laboratory equipment including routine calibration and minor preventive maintenance as well as maintaining proper reagent and equipment inventory to enhance production efficiency.
• Operate the laboratory at acceptable standards using international methods, develop and maintain a Quality Management System (QMS) as well as assist and provide impute in all chemical management, management of the chemical internal corrosion management process, and troubleshooting to support asset integrity.

Responsibilities

• Ensure daily management of the laboratory to meet all necessary analyses in crude oil Production, Water Injection, gas processing, and process monitoring, using internationally accepted standards and methods and complying with Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and Quality Management Systems (QMS) to support production and meet corporate objectives.
• Manage the laboratory equipment and reagents to ensure that they are fit to meet the required analysis and supervise the calibration and in-house maintenance of basic laboratory equipment to support production and meet regulatory license.
• Champion all HSE issues as well as managing laboratory waste disposal, chemical spill, and hazardous waste management as it relates to laboratory operation including active participation in the SHICS program to enhance the safety of personnel and environment and meet regulatory requirements for a license to operate.
• Performs chemical testing and surveillance analyses. Serves as team leader. Provides leadership and training in laboratory procedures and equipment to junior staff

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or HND in Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry, or related field.
• A minimum of 5 - 8 years experience in sampling and analytical experience in an oil and gas production chemistry laboratory.

Key Skills & Competencies:

• Knowledge of chemistry including the safe use and disposal of chemicals.
• Maths knowledge.
• Science skills.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Complex problem-solving skills.
• To be thorough and pay attention to detail.
• Analytical thinking skills.
• The ability to work well with others.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their tailored CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.

Note: Any application received after the closing date will be automatically rejected

Application Deadline  5th August, 2021 at 3pm.