Applications are invited from suitable and qualified candidates for the Following Engineering Jobs at Renaissance Africa Energy.
About Renaissance Africa Energy Company Limited
Renaissance Africa Energy Company Limited is an energy company focused on developing sustainable and efficient energy solutions to support economic growth and industrial development across Africa. The company operates in areas such as power generation, energy infrastructure, and resource management, with a commitment to improving energy access and reliability for businesses and communities. By combining innovation, strategic partnerships, and modern technology, Renaissance Africa Energy Company Limited aims to contribute to Africa’s growing demand for stable and cleaner energy systems. Its focus on operational excellence and long-term sustainability positions the company as an important player in the continent’s evolving energy sector.
Summary
- Company: Renaissance Africa Energy Company Limited
- Job Opening: 3 Positions
- Job Type: Full Time
- Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
- Location: Rivers, Nigeria
Job Opening: 3 Positions
1. Job Title: Principal Pipeline Engineer
Job Purpose:
- The position involves provision of technical input & assurance throughout the project lifecycle including Conceptual, FEED, Detailed Design, Procurement, Construction, Installation & Commissioning stages, to safeguard design, technical and operational integrity. Managing all pipeline engineering activities and deliverables for HA & HB-Buko projects.
- The Principal Pipeline Engineer provide pipeline Engineering expertise and support the delivery of HA & HB-Buko projects
Responsibilities
- Design activities concentrate on unique topics (remotely guided by procedures or scarce precedents).
- Translates the guidelines and standards into practice and solves common technical challenges and provides technical recommendations which have a perceptible impact on local business performance; actively drives the identification, development and implementation of new technologies and opportunities to optimize field operations.
- Contributes to the training and guidance of other professionals in the field. May represent the Company externally as a subject matter expert with suppliers, customers, and external agencies.
- Integrates across engineering disciplines to achieve delivery.
- May have SME responsibilities for regional/global Functional community.
- Leads discipline team/tasks within design, construction, operation, or maintenance of facilities/plant, interfacing with stakeholders and managing contractors.
- Provide specialist skills, integrity, and knowledge in key areas of subsea pipeline engineering, including design codes, legislative requirements, and current good engineering practice.
- Undertake responsibility for production of deliverables, which may include engineering support to the drafting office, design calculations, procedures, analyses, progress reports, bid evaluations, study reports and various third-party submissions.
- Undertake responsibility for delivery of full pipeline design scopes on projects through management of junior engineers with minimal supervision.
- Provide pipeline analysis support for projects.
- Provide technical guidance to designers and less experienced engineers from multidisciplinary team.
- Provide detailed design and analysis of rigid pipeline systems in accordance with acknowledged industry codes, standards and design guides, and scopes of work.
- Provide mechanical line sizing, integrity calculations, thermo-mechanical analysis for offshore pipelines.
Manage the performance of detailed pipeline engineering activities including:
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Wall thickness selection/ On-bottom stability analysis/ Allowable free-span analysis/ Thermal expansion analysis/ Bottom roughness analysis/ Thermo-mechanical design (low cycle fatigue analysis, lateral buckling and walking analysis)/ Rigid spool and jumper design/ Pipeline route selection / optimization./ Pipeline crossing design./ Installation analysis
- Production and checking of design documentation including feasibility reports, detailed design reports, equipment specifications etc.
- Provide support for preliminary pipeline routing assessments considering all interfaces, functional requirements, manmade and geo hazards using results from geotechnical and geophysical (G&G) survey.
- Coordinate pipeline engineering support to the execution of multidiscipline projects in line with defined budget and schedule.
- Liaise with associated subsea related disciplines and understand the interfaces within a project.
- Provide pipeline engineering assistance during occasional periods of offshore or site works.
- Supervise Pipeline Engineers and support in Quality Assurance/Quality Control of FEED and detailed design deliverables.
- Train / mentor junior and graduate engineers.
- Actively participate in relevant training to pursue continuing professional development.
- Provide input to project cost and schedule estimating.
- Assist with the development of the project specifications and purchase requisitions, as well providing support to bidding and subcontractor selection processes.
- Assist with development of pre-commissioning and commissioning procedures and activities including, testing, flooding, pigging, gauging, assessing, and mitigating risks, coordinating with other facility disciplines, and implementing process safety in work execution.
- Participate in Project reviews, HAZID, HAZOP and others.
- Promote zero accident, zero incident culture through inherently safe design meeting all regulatory requirements, and applicable industry codes and standards.
- Manages the relation with multiple (groups of) internal and external stakeholders on tactical/strategic level and manages opposite interests. Scale and severity of consequences if things go wrong are moderate, requiring careful stakeholder management from an impact and reputation perspective
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering discipline with minimum of 14 years’ experience within the Oil and Gas industry
- Experience with Offshore platforms, FPSOs, or Onshore terminals is desirable.
- Knowledge of HSSE framework and international engineering standards, best practices, and systems.
- A good understanding of practices, standards and technologies relating to Oil and Gas facilities.
- Strong team, personal and people management skills, committed to learning and continuous improvement
- Considerable customer focus, interpersonal skills and commercial astuteness are required together with initiative, expertise and energy to identify and exploit business opportunities.
- Good communication skill is essential.
- Ability to function effectively in a multi-ethnic, multi-disciplinary environment.
- Good leadership, coaching, negotiating, decision making, personal relations and communications skills are paramount for success. Inter-cultural awareness, team integration abilities are a requirement.
- Personal effectiveness and ability to work and deliver with minimal supervision
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2. Job Title: Principal Offshore Structural Engineer
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Responsibilities
To provide Offshore Civil/Structural Engineering expertise and support the HA & HB-Buko projects.
The HA & HB-Buko projects aim to provide circa 350-450 MMscf/d of gas to the NLNG Train-7 from 2029+, as well as 25-30 kb/d of oil and condensate for export. The projects’ projected gas supply constitutes circa 25% of the overall supply to the NLNG Train-7. The HA project completed FEED in Apr-25 and is now completing the tendering phase of the project contracts. While the HB-Buko project has initiated FEED in Q2-26. Current plan is for a joint HA/HB-Buko FID by end of Q1-27. Given the strategic importance of both projects to the NLNG Train 7, and to derisk the project execution schedule to protect the First Gas Date, a full integration and optimization of HA & HB-Buko has been endorsed by the JV partners to improve the business case and to accelerate further optimizations of the projects.
The position involves provision of technical input & assurance throughout the project lifecycle including Conceptual, FEED, Detailed Design, Procurement, Construction, Installation & Commissioning stages, to safeguard design, technical and operational integrity. Managing all CSO (Civil/Structures Offshore) engineering activities and deliverables for the HA/HB-Buko Projects.
- Ensure engineering design, procurement, fabrication, construction and installation is done in compliance with standards, project objectives, HSSE and contractual requirements
- Define Civil/Structural scope of work, specifications and requirements as part of ITT package. Applying Systems engineering and requirements management best practices to define minimum functional requirements and competitive project scope
- Perform technical studies & carry out structural analysis and design using SACS and other civil/structural design software
- Provide discipline expertise to manage contractor delivery of design and other specialist discipline work in line with project cost, schedule, quality & HSSE requirements.
- Review and provide technical assurance to FEED & Detailed design deliverables
- Define geotechnical investigation work scope and perform foundation design
- Supervision and quality assurance of fabrication and site construction works
- Drive innovative solutions to achieve economic performance requirements throughout facilities lifecycle. Drive for increase in cost efficiency and reductions in project costs
- Manage multiple technical and non-technical interfaces and stakeholders
- Manage technical risk by thorough understanding of relevant standards and expert review of deviations to Standards. Liaise with the Discipline Lead on all standards deviation matters.
- Provide discipline input through participation at safety workshops & value assurance events e.g. HAZID, HAZOPS, VAR’s and peer reviews etc.
- Contribute to Team meetings and performance reporting.
- Take a lead role in Renaissance’s drive to enhance its Shallow Offshore structures Asset Integrity from a design, technical as well as an operational point of view.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil/ Structural Engineering with minimum of 14 years’ experience in Civil/ Structural engineering within the Oil and Gas Industry
- Experience with offshore platforms, FPSOs, or onshore terminals is desirable.
- Knowledge of HSSE framework and International engineering standards, best practices, and systems.
- A good understanding of practices, standards and technologies relating to Oil and Gas facilities.
- Demonstrable record of successfully delivering structural engineering solutions for new projects and existing assets integrity.
- Proficient in the use of SACS software for offshore structures design
- Strong team, personal and people management skills, committed to learning and continuous improvement
- Considerable customer focus, interpersonal skills and commercial astuteness are required together with initiative, expertise and energy to identify and exploit business opportunities.
- Ability to function effectively in a multi-ethnic, multi-disciplinary environment.
- Good leadership, coaching, negotiating, decision making, personal relations and communications skills are paramount for success. Inter-cultural awareness, team integration abilities are a requirement.
- Personal effectiveness and ability to work and deliver with minimal supervision
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3. Job Title: Principal Offshore Engineer (HUC)
Responsibilities
The HA development project, in conjunction with the HB-Buko project, will be the first shallow water offshore hub in Nigeria and unlock the H-block located in front of the Niger Delta. These projects contribute to the Renaissance vision to become Africa’s leading energy company enabling energy security and industrialization in a sustainable manner. This project is critical to deliver gas to Train-7, which is planning completion in 2027. The offshore hub will allow development of gas fields in the area and will have processing capacities up to 500 mln scf/day where the gas will be exported to NLNG Train 7 through the OGGS pipeline. Fluids will be stabilized and exported.
The HA Project Development Project includes the engineering, procurement, fabrication, transportation & installation (T&I), and offshore hook-up & commissioning (HUC) of 3 separate platforms, which will be bridge linked.
The Principal Offshore Engineer (HUC) will be responsible for the hook-up and commissioning activities of all topsides and bridges (including systems and subsystems) at the project site (offshore). Additional responsibilities will include supporting the SWO Execution Lead with the transportation and installation of all in-country fabrication scopes (jackets and piles) and out-of-country scopes (topsides and bridges).
The project is schedule driven, so the candidate will need to proactively manage the T&I and HUC contractors and the respective work locations (onshore and offshore) and the installation/offshore window. It is essential that the candidate is highly motivated with the ability to manage multiple complex problems, integrating solutions across multiple disciplines in a dynamic project environment.
The candidate will be the direct line supervisor for Contract staff in the Execution Team. In P&E we believe that an inclusive and diverse workplace is essential to our future success.
- The Principal Offshore Engineer (HUC) role supports the SWO Execution Lead to achieve project objectives through the following accountabilities:
- Administrate the T&I and HUC contracts per the defined scope, within cost & schedule (SWO Execution Lead will be the CH)
- Transportation and installation of all in-country fabrication scopes (jackets and piles) and out-of-country scopes (topsides and bridges) for the HA development projects within cost & schedule
- Support the load-out of the three jacket structures and associated piles from the epF2 contractor (in-country)
- Support the load-out of the three topsides structures and two bridges from the EPF1 contractor (out-of-country)
- Manage the T&I design by the contractor and manage the interface between fabricators and contractor
- Complete hook-up and commissioning activities for all topsides and bridges at the project site (offshore)
- Provide input into the detailed design (DED) of the topsides and bridges, with the ability to incorporate critical activities related to offshore installation, hook-up, commissioning and handover into the final design
- Support Fabrication Manager and fabrication contractor complete systems/subsystems cold commissioning prior to sail away
- Define the carryover work, including finalizing an agreement between EPF1, HUC and Company prior to sail awayy
- Support the load-out of the three topsides structures and two bridges from the EPF1 contractor (out-of-country), as necessary
- Support Operations during dynamic/hot commissioning of each system and subsystem through final handover (P2A)
- Manage the interfaces with the following key groups: EPF1, epF2, Wells, T&I, HUC, Pipelay and ORCSU
- Participate in risk assessment process as well as other project reviews to identify key technical risks and propose solutions for those risks specific to jacket, piles, topsides and commissioning
- Ensure seamless handover of platforms and bridges from T&I contractor to HUC contractor
- Ensure seamless handover (P2A) of platforms and bridges to Operations
- Deliver risk-mitigation strategies and cost-saving opportunities through rigorous review (including contractor’s input) of topsides/bridges detailed design, as well as contractor’s strategies, plans, schedule and procedures
SPECIAL CHALLENGES
- Multiple worksites including onshore fabrication yards across multiple countries and shallow offshore project location
- The security situation in the Niger Delta
- Logistics management, integration across multiple disciplines and contractors as well as communication skills will be a primary challenge
- Manage a challenging schedule, without sacrificing HSSE or quality requirements
- Managing offshore construction/commissioning site safety in view of the large number of workers with differing levels of safety knowledge and motivation
DIMENSIONS
- CAPEX: total project over $2Bln, contract value of ~$100mln HUC
- Direct Reports: The Position has approximately 2-5 direct reports (anticipated to be contingent resources)
Requirements
- Graduate in an engineering discipline, COREN registered with working knowledge of oil and gas facilities and project engineering systems, tools and practices
- Must have at least 15 years’ extensive experience in oil & gas industry
- Must have at least 10 years’ experience in offshore commissioning work, with at least 5 years in an offshore execution role
- Must have at least 10 years’ experience in commissioning various (gas compression, production, electrical, power generation, utility, flare, PACO, etc.) systems
- Must have experience and proven track record in contract management and able to maintain a good working relationship with contractors during the execution of the contracts
- Experience in multiple platform/package commissioning is preferable
- Offshore certifications (OSP, BOSIET, etc.)
Key Skills and Competencies
- Leadership experience in offshore gas production & processing, offshore mega-projects construction with sufficient depth and breadth to assess and assure the risks associated with the execution of simultaneous activities offshore
- Site (fabrication/construction) leadership experience at various locations (including overseas) as well as offshore rotations
- Understanding, management and experience in simultaneous commissioning of complex systems and subsystems
- Extensive experience developing and executing commissioning procedures, check sheets and punchlists
- Deep understanding of mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, controls, and process systems
- Management and coordination of critical vendor representatives, commissioning specialists and OEM technicians
- In-depth knowledge of safety management systems, emergency response, operations, marine and aviation logistics, contracts and contractor management, industrial relations, project planning, and reporting
Key Behaviors
- Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills with good communications skills
- Proven track record of delivering results in a challenging project environment
- Pro-active, resilient, motivated, positive, team player, energetic
- Proactive and visible HSSE leadership, demonstrating commitment to safety with SIMOPs activities and multiple Contractors
- Ability to manage multiple complex problems, integrating solutions across multiple disciplines
- Commitment to creating a respectful environment where people are heard, cared for, and equipped for success
- Demonstrated resilience under challenging operational conditions
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