Pipeline Inspector

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Pipeline Inspector

Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Employment Type: Contract
Function: Pipeline Construction and Integrity Inspection
Reports to: Pipeline QA/QC Lead / Construction QA/QC Engineer
Supervises: None

Role Purpose

Inspect pipeline construction, tie-in, testing, coating, and reinstatement activities to ensure the installed pipeline meets approved design, code, integrity, and client requirements and is supported by complete construction records.

Key Responsibilities

• Raise and close observations, punch items, and NCRs; prevent unauthorised repairs or bypass of ITP hold points.
• Review route drawings, alignment sheets, isometrics, material specifications, WPS/PQRs, ITPs, test procedures, and approved construction methods.
• Verify tie-ins, dimensional control, flange management, bolt tightening, valve orientation, supports, and interface points at facilities.
• Maintain daily reports, weld/NDT/coating/test registers, red-line records, and pipeline handover dossier inputs.
• Inspect field-joint coating, holiday testing, lowering-in, padding, crossings, trench condition, backfill, markers, and cathodic-protection interfaces.
• Verify pipe, fittings, valves, flanges, consumables, heat numbers, coating condition, storage, handling, and material traceability.
• Inspect joint preparation, fit-up, alignment, preheat, welding parameters, welder qualifications, weld identification, and weld mapping.
• Witness gauging, cleaning, pressure testing, dewatering, drying, leak testing, reinstatement, and pre-commissioning activities.
• Coordinate VT and NDT, review results and repair status, and ensure accepted welds are released before coating or concealment.

Key Performance Measures

• Field-joint coating and holiday-test acceptance
• Complete weld, coating, test, and as-built records
• Pipeline test packs accepted first pass
• Weld repair and NDT rejection rate
• No unauthorised concealed work or missed hold points

Qualifications and Experience
Minimum Requirements:

• Readiness to work along rights-of-way, remote locations, terminals, crossings, or live-facility interfaces.
• Hands-on knowledge of pipeline welding, NDT, field-joint coating, hydrotesting, lowering-in, reinstatement, and documentation.
• Ability to read alignment sheets, isometrics, weld maps, test packs, and pipeline specifications.
• Typically 7 or more years of pipeline construction or integrity inspection experience in oil and gas.
• HND or Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Welding, Materials/Metallurgical, Pipeline, or a related discipline.

Preferred Certifications and Standards Knowledge:

• AMPP/NACE coating certification is advantageous.
• Working knowledge of ASME B31.4/B31.3 as applicable, ASME Section IX, API requirements, ASTM materials standards, and client pipeline specifications.
• CSWIP 3.1 Welding Inspector and ASNT/ISO 9712 Level II are strongly preferred.

Core Competencies:

• Material and weld traceability
• Coating, lowering-in, and backfill inspection
• Route-based reporting and dossier control
• Hydrotest and pre-commissioning verification
• Pipeline welding and NDT surveillance

Reporting and Interfaces:

• External interfaces: Client inspectors, pipeline contractors, NDT/coating providers, land/community interface teams, and laboratories.
• Internal interfaces: Pipeline engineering, construction, welding, coating, survey, testing, commissioning, HSE, and document control teams.