Bonga Operations Technician

The Bonga Operations Technicians form the core of the shift teams on the Bonga FPSO. They operate and maintain production systems safely and efficiently ensuring the correct quantity and quality of products are delivered.

The Operations Technician will work primarily with the Shift Supervisor, Operations Engineer, Operations Supervisor, Technical Custodian Subsea, Maintenance Technicians, Operations Technicians on same and other shifts, Contract staff, the Marine Team and Vendor Representatives for overall safe running of the Bonga production systems.

The production systems are divided into the following subsystems:

1. Subsea wellheads

2. Oil Process

  3. Gas Process

  4. Power and Utilities Process

  5. Water injection

Operations Technicians are expected to start up, control, monitor, and shut down of assigned subsystems as required and to maintain safe operations and achieve production targets.

The principal accountabilities of the Bonga Operations Technician are:

• Responsible for the surveillance of assigned production systems.

• Maintaining close liaison with the Control Room Operators (CRO) and performing operational actions requested by the CRO.

• Reinstatement and startup of systems and equipment.

• Monitoring process plant and making adjustments where necessary to sustain and optimize production.

• Carrying out all Operational Planned Maintenance Routines.

• Taking/analysing samples as required by job specification.

• Carrying out first line maintenance within agreed scope.

• Gathering, interpreting and communicating information as required.

• Shutdown, depressurising, purging/flushing of isolated systems and equipment for maintenance.

• Verifying that key adjustable operating parameters in the production facilities and systems are optimised, to identify problems in the processes and to take appropriate corrective action.

• Identifying deviations from optimum operating parameters and taking corrective actions.

• Carrying out handover to the incoming shift and maintain a daily handover log of significant events in the areas of responsibility and perform a verbal on-the-job handover with the oncoming shift technician, to ensure continuity of operations.

• Taking plant logs once per shift or as may be required.

• Providing operational and technical knowledge input into the design of changes in system’s configurations. 

• Ensuring the execution of critical system maintenance and ensure that first line diagnosis and corrective actions are adequately carried out.

• Responding to production incidents, hazardous conditions or emergencies as required, utilising ESD facilities where appropriate.

• Carrying out emergency response duties as may be required.

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