We're Hiring: Petroleum Asset Integrity Manager
Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior
Work Arrangement: Fully Remote
About Us
We are a globally focused organization committed to maintaining safe, reliable, and high-performing petroleum assets across complex operating environments. Our teams collaborate across engineering, operations, maintenance, inspection, reliability, process safety, HSE, projects, and commercial functions to protect asset integrity throughout the full lifecycle.
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Petroleum Asset Integrity Manager to lead asset integrity strategy, inspection, corrosion management, reliability, mechanical integrity, risk management, and lifecycle assurance across petroleum facilities and infrastructure.
The ideal candidate will ensure that wells, pipelines, tanks, pressure equipment, rotating equipment, process systems, structures, and associated facilities remain safe, compliant, reliable, and fit for service while optimizing lifecycle costs and minimizing operational risks.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement asset integrity management strategies for petroleum assets.
- Establish asset integrity policies, standards, procedures, governance frameworks, and performance requirements.
- Manage integrity programs across upstream, midstream, downstream, or integrated petroleum facilities as applicable.
- Maintain comprehensive asset registers, criticality classifications, integrity histories, and lifecycle records.
- Identify safety-critical and integrity-critical equipment and establish appropriate assurance requirements.
- Conduct risk-based integrity assessments and prioritize inspection, maintenance, repair, and replacement activities.
- Develop risk-based inspection programs for pressure vessels, piping, tanks, pipelines, and other static equipment.
- Manage inspection strategies using appropriate non-destructive examination and condition-monitoring techniques.
- Coordinate ultrasonic testing, radiography, magnetic particle inspection, dye penetrant testing, visual inspection, eddy current testing, and other applicable methods.
- Manage corrosion management programs covering internal corrosion, external corrosion, erosion, microbiologically influenced corrosion, and other degradation mechanisms.
- Establish corrosion monitoring, chemical treatment, corrosion control, coating, cathodic protection, and material-selection requirements.
- Monitor equipment degradation rates and remaining service life.
- Conduct fitness-for-service assessments and engineering evaluations for degraded or damaged equipment.
- Review pressure equipment, piping, tanks, structural systems, rotating equipment, and safety-critical systems for continued serviceability.
- Coordinate integrity assessments for pipelines, flowlines, risers, subsea systems, and associated petroleum infrastructure.
- Develop inspection, testing, repair, replacement, and life-extension plans.
- Lead root-cause investigations into equipment failures, leaks, loss of containment, corrosion events, and recurring integrity issues.
- Ensure corrective and preventive actions are implemented and verified for effectiveness.
- Work closely with operations, maintenance, reliability, engineering, HSE, and process safety teams.
- Provide technical integrity input to shutdowns, turnarounds, maintenance campaigns, and major inspection programs.
- Review operating conditions and identify deviations that may accelerate equipment degradation.
- Establish integrity operating windows and monitoring requirements for critical equipment and processes.
- Support management-of-change activities by assessing integrity implications of process, equipment, material, and operating modifications.
- Review engineering designs, specifications, material selections, fabrication requirements, and construction plans for integrity considerations.
- Provide integrity requirements for new projects, brownfield modifications, expansions, and facility upgrades.
- Participate in technical reviews, hazard studies, design reviews, constructability reviews, and commissioning activities.
- Verify that new and modified assets meet applicable integrity, inspection, materials, and reliability requirements before operation.
- Manage mechanical integrity programs for pressure systems, storage facilities, piping, valves, relief systems, and related equipment.
- Monitor structural integrity of offshore and onshore petroleum facilities where applicable.
- Coordinate integrity management for fire protection, safety-critical equipment, and containment systems.
- Establish equipment inspection intervals based on risk, degradation mechanisms, operating conditions, and applicable standards.
- Monitor inspection findings, overdue inspections, critical anomalies, temporary repairs, and integrity threats.
- Establish processes for managing temporary repairs and ensure appropriate engineering controls and replacement plans.
- Maintain accurate integrity databases, inspection records, thickness measurements, corrosion data, failure histories, and engineering assessments.
- Use integrity-management software, computerized maintenance systems, inspection databases, GIS, digital twins, and analytics tools where appropriate.
- Analyze integrity data to identify trends, emerging degradation, systemic failures, and high-risk assets.
- Develop predictive and condition-based integrity strategies using advanced analytics and monitoring technologies.
- Evaluate emerging technologies including robotic inspection, drones, remote monitoring, digital twins, advanced NDT, sensors, and predictive analytics.
- Manage integrity-related contractors, inspection companies, engineering consultants, laboratories, and specialist service providers.
- Define technical scopes, qualification requirements, service levels, deliverables, and performance standards for integrity contractors.
- Monitor contractor quality, technical performance, safety, schedule, cost, and compliance.
- Manage asset integrity budgets, forecasts, resources, and long-term expenditure plans.
- Develop business cases for repairs, replacement, refurbishment, corrosion-control systems, and life-extension investments.
- Evaluate lifecycle costs, risk reduction, reliability improvements, and return on integrity investments.
- Ensure compliance with applicable petroleum regulations, industry standards, inspection requirements, and company engineering practices.
- Support regulatory inspections, certification activities, audits, and authority interactions.
- Maintain integrity documentation required for regulatory and operational assurance.
- Develop emergency response and contingency plans for major leaks, equipment failures, loss of containment, and integrity-related incidents.
- Ensure lessons learned from incidents, inspections, and failures are incorporated into integrity programs and engineering standards.
- Train and develop integrity engineers, inspectors, corrosion specialists, and technical personnel.
- Provide senior management with regular reports covering asset health, integrity risks, inspection status, failures, costs, compliance, and improvement initiatives.
Key Performance Indicators
- Asset integrity risk exposure
- Integrity-related incident frequency
- Loss-of-containment events
- Hydrocarbon leaks and releases
- Equipment failure frequency
- Unplanned shutdowns
- Asset availability
- Asset reliability
- Risk-based inspection completion
- Overdue inspection percentage
- Critical anomaly closure
- Corrosion rate
- Corrosion-related failure frequency
- Wall-thickness compliance
- Fitness-for-service assessment completion
- Remaining-life assessment coverage
- Temporary repair backlog
- Integrity-related maintenance backlog
- Inspection data quality
- NDT accuracy and turnaround time
- Cathodic protection compliance
- Coating condition
- Pipeline integrity performance
- Pressure equipment integrity
- Storage tank integrity
- Structural integrity
- Safety-critical equipment compliance
- Root-cause investigation completion
- Corrective-action closure
Ideal Candidate
The successful candidate should have strong experience in petroleum asset integrity, mechanical integrity, corrosion engineering, inspection, reliability engineering, pipeline integrity, process equipment, or oil and gas engineering, preferably within upstream, midstream, downstream, petrochemical, refining, or offshore petroleum operations.
The candidate should demonstrate:
- Strong understanding of petroleum asset integrity management principles.
- Experience managing integrity programs across complex petroleum facilities.
- Strong knowledge of risk-based inspection and mechanical integrity methodologies.
- Experience with pressure vessels, piping, tanks, pipelines, valves, structures, and process equipment.
- Strong understanding of corrosion mechanisms, corrosion control, coatings, cathodic protection, and materials selection.
- Experience with non-destructive testing and inspection technologies.
- Knowledge of fitness-for-service, remaining-life assessment, and equipment degradation evaluation.
- Experience investigating equipment failures, leaks, loss-of-containment events, and integrity incidents.
- Strong understanding of asset criticality, risk assessment, and integrity prioritization.
- Experience supporting shutdowns, turnarounds, maintenance, projects, and brownfield modifications.
- Familiarity with applicable petroleum engineering, inspection, materials, and integrity standards.
- Experience managing engineering consultants, inspection contractors, laboratories, and specialist vendors.
- Strong analytical and technical problem-solving capabilities.
- Experience with integrity-management databases, CMMS, inspection systems, GIS, or digital asset-management platforms.
- Strong project-management, budgeting, and resource-management skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management capabilities.