Tank Inspector

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Tank Inspector

Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Employment Type: Contract
Function: Storage Tank Construction and Integrity
Reports to: Tank/Mechanical Integrity Engineer / QA/QC Manager
Supervises: None

Role Purpose

• Inspect storage-tank construction, rehabilitation, repair, and in-service integrity activities, verifying conformance with approved design, API requirements, welding/coating procedures, and safe return-to-service criteria.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor weld repairs, plate replacement, patching, nozzle work, jacking, structural repair, and reinspection against approved procedures.
• Verify material identification, dimensions, plumbness, roundness, settlement, fit-up, weld preparation, welder qualifications, and welding controls.
• Evaluate findings, raise punch items/NCRs, and support repair recommendations and fitness-for-service or engineering review where required.
• Review tank drawings, repair scopes, inspection history, settlement data, material specifications, WPS/PQRs, ITPs, NDT, coating, and hydrotest procedures.
• Coordinate VT, PT/MT, UT, radiographic interpretation, vacuum-box testing, leak testing, and other specified examinations.
• Inspect foundations, annular plates, bottom plates, shell courses, roof, nozzles, manways, reinforcement, structural attachments, and appurtenances.
• Inspect internal linings, external coatings, surface preparation, DFT, holiday testing, and corrosion-control provisions.
• Witness hydrostatic testing, settlement monitoring, roof/drain checks, cleaning, reinstatement, and pre-commissioning activities.
• Compile complete inspection records, weld maps, NDT reports, test results, repair history, and tank handover dossier inputs.

Key Performance Measures

• Tank dossier accepted with complete traceability
• Tank inspection scope completed to plan
• Critical defects identified before hydrotest or return to service
• Weld/NDT and leak-test first-pass acceptance
• Repair and punch items closed on time

Qualifications and Experience
Minimum Requirements:

• Ability to interpret tank drawings, weld maps, inspection results, repair details, and acceptance criteria.
• Typically 7 or more years of tank construction, repair, coating, or integrity inspection experience.
• HND or bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Materials/Metallurgical, Welding, Civil, or a related discipline.
• Strong practical knowledge of tank welding, geometry, NDT, bottom leak testing, coating/lining, hydrotest, and settlement monitoring.
• Experience working safely in confined spaces and around hydrotest and lifting operations.

Preferred Certifications and Standards Knowledge:

• API 653 certification is strongly preferred; API 650 construction experience is required for new-build assignments.
• CSWIP 3.1 and ASNT/ISO 9712 Level II are advantageous.
• AMPP/NACE coating certification is desirable for lining and coating scopes.

Core Competencies:

• Lining/coating inspection
• Tank geometry and settlement verification
• Welding, NDT, and leak-test control
• Tank construction and repair inspection
• Integrity findings and dossier reporting

Reporting and Interfaces:

• External interfaces: Client inspectors, tank contractors, NDT/coating providers, laboratories, and specialist engineering assessors.
• Internal interfaces: Tank engineering, construction, welding, coating, civil, commissioning, operations, asset integrity, and HSE teams.