Offshore Metering Technician - Liverpool Bay

SGS is the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. We are recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With more than 95,000 employees, we operate a network of more than 2,400 offices and laboratories around the world.

We aim to be the most competitive and the most productive service organization in the world. Our core competencies in inspection, verification, testing and certification are being continuously improved to be best-in-class. They are at the heart of what we are.

• Job Title: Offshore Metering Technician
• Job Type: Permanent
• Job Location: Liverpool Bay (Offshore)
• Travel: Offshore rota 14 days on 14 days off

As an Offshore Metering Technician, you’ll receive a competitive salary, depending on experience, plus you’ll benefit from private health cover, a contributory pension scheme and life cover.

As an Offshore Metering Technician you’ll be responsible for creating a relationship between client and SGS United Kingdom Ltd with the aim of providing Fiscal, Allocation and environmental metering facilities whilst maintaining excellence in quality and safety performance. Additionally, you will be responsible for ensuring that the fiscal and allocation gas and oil metering facilities are maintained and operated to the standards required to satisfy legislative and operational requirements.

Key Accountabilities;

• Monitoring of metering system performance and data to minimise metering errors.
• Routine planned maintenance to client PMR routines, including onsite planning of the work to ensure PMR’s are carried out within the required timescales.
• Completion of any corrective work identified during normal operations or whilst carrying out PMR’s, to follow sound working practice and prevent failures.
• Record keeping of all metering systems offshore and associated field and test equipment files & calibration records to provide an auditable trail to meet DTI requirements.
• Liaison with client representatives both onshore and offshore to identify and highlight any problem areas and also any opportunities for improvements to the system operation or efficiency.
• Liaison with contractors own Metering Engineers for technical back up and status reports to ensure operations are carried out in a timely manner.

How to be a successful candidate:

To be a successful candidate we are looking for someone who have experience within the oil an gas metering industry or have worked in a oil company.

It will be good to have:

• HND/ Degree level in/or equivalent engineering or techical based discipline
• Current Offshore Survival Certificate
• Current Offshore Medical Certificate
• Maximo and Work Management course
• ISSOW course
• MIST

You’ll need recent experience calibrating flow measurement equipment in the correct manner and in accordance with client procedures, utilising various Company or client test equipment, and to advise immediately of the results and consequences in order to prevent or minimise mis-measurement occurrences

What you will get in return

• Private Medical Cover
• Company Pension Contributions
• 4x Life Assurance
• Birthday Leave Scheme
• Enhanced maternity/paternity and adoption pay
• Length of Service Awards
• Health & Wellbeing initiatives
• Christmas Vouchers.

APPLY NOW for full consideration, you can be sure that your application will be treated confidentially and impartially, and you will always receive an update within 10 business days.