Corrosion Engineer

Job description / Role

Role summary:

The corrosion engineer ensures all onshore and offshore facilities are protected from corrosion, helping maintain equipment safety, reliability, and long life.
The role involves monitoring corrosion protection systems, reviewing coating and cathodic protection performance, supporting inspections, and solving corrosion issues in day-to-day operations.

Key responsibilities:

• Monitor and assess corrosion in pipelines, vessels, tanks, and offshore structures.
• Support coating, painting, and cathodic protection inspections and ensure they meet standards.
• Review readings of corrosion coupons, probes, and monitoring systems and recommend corrective actions.
• Participate in failure investigations and help determine root causes of corrosion-related issues.
• Provide material selection and corrosion prevention inputs for new projects and modifications.
• Support planning and execution of shutdown corrosion inspection activities.
• Maintain corrosion data, prepare reports, and recommend maintenance actions based on risk.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical, metallurgical or materials engineering.
• Minimum 8 years of corrosion monitoring, coating, cathodic protection, or materials experience in oil & gas.
• Understanding of corrosion mechanisms, chemical inhibition, and failure analysis.
• Good communication and problem-solving skills.

Work environment:

• Onshore and offshore facilities.
• Coordination with inspectors, operations, maintenance, and external corrosion labs.

With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the oil & gas, power & renewables, chemicals, construction & infrastructure, life sciences, mining and manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.