Thirty+ years’ experience in Engineering Maintenance and Rotating Equipment Inspector/Specialist with significant knowledge of heavy duty gas turbines, power generation, gas compression, transmission pipelines and offshore projects. 14 years LNG experience from project phase through to commissioning, start-up and operations. VCAT II Qualifications provides added knowledge for operating plant diagnostics, assessing vibration frequencies to identify machine faults.
Monitor INROT work centre and ensure all scopes are completed on time and IC compliant.
Provide day to day and long term RE inspection support to onshore and offshore.
Ensure that the quality of work that is executed by internal as well as external parties is done to an acceptable standard and complies with Inpex expectations.
Review RE work scopes to ensure that they are resourced adequately and scoped correctly.
Review rotating equipment operation and performance and identify any issues that may be prevalent using available resources such as PI, SAP, and site inspections.
Provide a focus on reliability analysis and any identify potential improvements.
Review, action and close out allocated TSR actions as directed by Senior RE Engineer.
Develop repair strategies for rotating equipment, both in house at at external support facilities.
Write, review and update Inspection Test Plans and maintenance work instructions for all rotating equipment scopes that require quality oversite.
Mentor maintenance technicians when required.
Act as a focal point for lubrication technicians.
Develop alignment templates for rotating equipment alignments for both simple alignments as well as multi machine string alignments.
Review all completed alignment measurements.
Maintain Inpex alignment database and laser alignment equipment and ensure that calibration is up to date.
Maintain RE Inspection equipment including borescopes, , lasers, gauss meters etc.
Liaise with external contractors to ensure that the support offered is consistent with Inpex needs and expectations and to continually improve on delivering quality services and repairs. including regular site meetings as well as workshop facility visits and audits.
Document activities during RE work scopes and complete a comprehensive report at end of the job to be circulated to RE Engineering team.
Support Campaign and Shutdown teams in planning and executing rotating scopes, ensuring quality compliance and parts and special tooling reviews.
Review and accept vendor final reports at completion of outages.
Manage handovers and effective communications between other inspectors and RE Engineers.
This role involves monitoring work progress to ensure timely completion and compliance with safety and quality standards. Additionally, the inspector is responsible for maintaining equipment and alignment databases, liaising with external contractors, documenting activities during work scopes, and supporting campaign and shutdown teams in planning and executing rotating scopes. The role also includes mentoring maintenance technicians, delivering training to operations and maintenance teams, and managing handovers and effective communication between other inspectors and RE engineers.
Key Responsibilities:
Monitor work centre and ensure all scopes are completed on time and IC compliant.
Provide day-to-day and long-term RE inspection support to onshore and offshore facilities.
Ensure quality of work executed by internal and external parties and that it complies with Inpex expectations.
Review RE work scopes to ensure adequate resourcing and correct scoping.
Review rotating equipment operation and performance, identify issues and provide reliability analysis and potential improvements.
Review, action, and close out allocated TSR actions as directed by Senior RE Engineer.
Develop repair strategies for rotating equipment both in-house and at external support facilities.
Write, review, and update Inspection Test Plans for all rotating equipment scopes that require quality oversight.
Write, review, and update MWIs and CWIs for all relevant rotating equipment repair tasks.
Develop alignment templates for rotating equipment alignments and review all completed alignment measurements.
Maintain Inpex alignment database and laser alignment equipment and ensure calibration is up to date.
Maintain RE Inspection equipment including borescopes, , lasers, gauss meters, etc.
Liaise with external contractors to ensure that support is consistent with Inpex needs and expectations and to continually improve on delivering quality services and repairs.
Document activities during RE work scopes and complete a comprehensive report at the end of the job to be circulated to RE Engineering team.
Support Campaign and Shutdown teams in planning and executing rotating scopes, ensuring quality compliance, and parts and special tooling reviews. Review and accept vendor final reports at completion of outages.
Deliver training as required to operations and maintenance teams (mech seal, dry gas seal, lubrication).
Manage handovers and effective communication between other inspectors and RE engineers.
Ensure compliance with safety regulations and procedures.
Received a Presidents Award for my contribution to the Frame 7 modular change out in lieu of Hot Gas Path inspection for the 2021 Shutdown (was accelerated from 2025 to 2021 readiness.) This work allowed concept to have final engineering, materials and shutdown readiness completed in a short planning cycle in time for the ILNG shutdown team to execute. The Modular Concept is a world first successful change out of a Frame 7 having only been completed on the smaller Frame 5 elsewhere. The early completion de-risks future 2025 and 2026 shutdown durations and eliminates the need to purchase a USD$24m Frame 7 rotable spare.