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Lead Instrumentation & Controls Assurance Consultant
About this role
The role is for a Lead Instrumentation & Controls Assurance Consultant based in Lagos, employed by Independent Project Monitoring Company Limited (IPMC). The position involves overseeing instrumentation and control systems assurance within projects, including field instrumentation, DCS, PLC, SCADA, SIS/ESD, control valves, analyzers, and associated testing and commissioning. It targets professionals with extensive post-qualification experience who can lead engineering or assurance teams on large industrial, oil and gas, petrochemical, refinery, fertiliser, power, manufacturing, or major infrastructure projects. The employer seeks candidates with relevant professional registration or chartered status and a track record in EPC/EPCM, Owner's Engineer, Third-Party Inspection, or related project assurance activities. The candidate must demonstrate strong leadership, analytical, reporting, and stakeholder-management skills, and be willing to work in Nigeria for the assignment duration.
What you would do
- Lead technical and assurance activities for instrumentation and control systems on projects.
- Oversee field instrumentation, DCS, PLC, SCADA, SIS and ESD testing and commissioning.
- Coordinate functional safety testing and instrumentation assurance activities.
- Manage teams across engineering, cost, commercial, or assurance functions as needed.
- Ensure contractor progress verification, quality assurance, risk identification, documentation, and certification processes are followed.
- Engage with stakeholders to report progress, issues, and risk implications.
- Maintain high standards of integrity, independence, and impartiality in assessments.
- Provide leadership and mentoring to junior team members.
- Ensure compliance with project requirements and applicable codes and standards.
- Support project delivery through rigorous technical and commercial assurance processes.
What they are asking for
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, Quantity Surveying, Cost Management, Construction Economics or related discipline
- Minimum 12 years post-qualification experience, including at least a lead or supervisory role
- Extensive experience on industrial or large-scale projects in oil & gas, petrochemical, refinery, fertiliser, power, manufacturing or infrastructure
- Relevant professional registration or chartered status (eg COREN, CEng, PE, MRICS, FRICS, NIQS, RQS or equivalent)
- Proven experience leading technical, engineering, cost, commercial or assurance teams
- Experience in EPC/EPCM, Owner's Engineer, Third-Party Inspection, Project Assurance, Construction Supervision, Technical Audit or Cost/Commercial Assurance environments
- Strong understanding of progress verification, quality assurance, risk identification, documentation, and certification processes
- Excellent leadership, analytical, reporting and stakeholder-management skills
- High professional integrity, independence and impartiality
- Willingness and ability to work in Nigeria for the assignment duration
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