Facility Statutory Inspector

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Facility Statutory Inspector

Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Employment Type: Contract
Function: Regulatory Compliance and Asset Integrity Inspection
Reports to: Asset Integrity Manager / Inspection Authority
Supervises: None

Role Purpose

• Plan, coordinate, and document statutory and code-required inspections for facility equipment and safety-critical assets, maintaining a reliable compliance register and ensuring overdue, defective, or uncertified items are controlled.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide auditable compliance reports, dashboards, certificates, and evidence for management, client, and regulatory assurance reviews.
• Evaluate inspection results against acceptance criteria and define restrictions, repairs, reinspection, or removal from service where necessary.
• Perform or witness visual examination, functional tests, NDT, thickness measurement, load tests, pressure tests, and specialist examinations within authorised competence.
• Track findings and integrity actions to closure and escalate overdue inspections or high-risk defects to accountable management.
• Maintain the facility statutory inspection register, equipment inventory, inspection frequencies, due dates, certificates, and responsible parties.
• Confirm applicable legal, regulatory, code, manufacturer, and client requirements for pressure equipment, lifting equipment, storage systems, relief devices, and other assigned assets.
• Review equipment history, previous findings, repairs, operating conditions, and certification status before inspection.
• Develop risk-informed inspection schedules and scopes and coordinate access, isolation, preparation, and competent-person resources.
• Verify third-party competence, calibration, approved procedures, and certificate accuracy before accepting statutory records.

Key Performance Measures

• Statutory inspections completed before due date
• Regulatory/client assurance reviews completed without major gaps
• Certificates complete, accurate, and retrievable
• Overdue inspection backlog and repeat findings reduced
• High-risk findings escalated and controlled promptly

Qualifications and Experience
Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree or HND in Mechanical, Materials/Metallurgical, Electrical, Marine, or a relevant engineering discipline.
• Typically 7 or more years of inspection or asset-integrity experience in oil and gas, terminals, refineries, or industrial facilities.
• Ability to interpret applicable regulations, code requirements, inspection reports, and equipment history.
• Demonstrated experience managing inspection registers, certification, competent-person activities, and integrity-action closure.
• Knowledge of pressure equipment, lifting appliances, tanks, relief devices, piping, and related facility safety-critical systems.

Preferred Certifications and Standards Knowledge:

• Working knowledge of applicable ASME, API, statutory, manufacturer, and client inspection requirements.
• Relevant API, ASNT/ISO 9712, lifting-equipment, pressure-equipment, or competent-person certification is preferred according to scope.
• ISO 9001 auditor or asset-integrity training is advantageous.

Core Competencies:

• Risk-based defect evaluation
• Compliance-register and certificate control
• Third-party competence assurance
• Statutory inspection planning
• Clear escalation and integrity reporting

Reporting and Interfaces:

• External interfaces: Regulators, client assurance teams, competent persons, inspection bodies, OEMs, and specialist testing contractors.
• Internal interfaces: Operations, maintenance, asset integrity, HSE, engineering, inspection planning, and document control teams.

HSE and Quality Commitment:

• Responsibilities may be adjusted to suit project scope, risk, location, and contractual requirements.
• The role holder is expected to demonstrate integrity, objective judgement, respect for approved procedures, and a continual-improvement mindset.
• Ensure equipment is safely isolated, depressurised, prepared, and accessed before inspection; statutory compliance never overrides permit-to-work or operational safety controls.