TANK SUPERVISOR

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Responsibilities

• Extensive experience in the construction and erection of aboveground welded storage tanks, particularly tanks constructed in accordance with API 650. API
• Proven experience with API 625 refrigerated liquefied-gas storage tanksystems, including familiarity with the specific construction and quality requirementsassociated with these types of tanks.
• Proven construction and supervision experience with spherical pressure vessels (spheres).
• Strong practical knowledge of tankfoundations, bottom and annular plates, shell courses, compression rings, roofs, nozzles, manholes, reinforcement plates, platforms, stairways, and associated tankstructures.
• Experience supervising sphere erection, including structural supports/legs, shell segments, welding activities, nozzles, access platforms, and associated mechanical works.
• Ability to supervise all phases of tankerection, from foundation handover and material receiving through mechanical completion, testing, and handover to the commissioning team.
• Strong knowledge of welding activities, including WPS/PQR requirements, welder qualifications, joint preparation, fit-up, welding sequences, distortion control, preheating, and, where applicable, PWHT.
• Good understanding of NDT/NDE requirementsand techniques, including VT, PT, MT, UT, RT, and vacuum box testing, as applicable to the equipment, approved ITP, project specifications, and governing code.
• Experience coordinating and supervising hydrostatic testing, including test preparation, filling and draining activities, settlement monitoring, leak inspection, punch-list management, and reinstatement.
• Ability to supervise dimensional and geometrical control, including tank/sphere alignment, verticality, roundness, levels, plumbness, and settlement monitoring in accordance with project requirements.
• Experience with tankbottom, shell, roof, and nozzle inspection activities, ensuring that fabrication and erection comply with approved drawings, specifications, ITPs, method statements, and applicable codes.
• Strong knowledge of material identification and traceability, including plate identification, certificates, material control, welding consumables, and construction records.
• Ability to review and understand tankdrawings, fabrication drawings, general arrangements, plate development drawings, nozzle orientation drawings, and technical specifications.
• Experience coordinating tankand sphere activities with Civil, Piping, Mechanical, Welding, QA/QC, NDT, Coating, Insulation, HSE, and Commissioning teams.
• Experience supervising surface preparation, painting/coating, insulation, and fireproofing activities, where applicable.
• Ability to supervise subcontractors and construction teams, ensuring compliance with quality, HSE, productivity, schedule, and contractual requirements.
• Strong knowledge of lifting and heavy erection activities, including coordination with lifting supervisors for cranes, rigging operations, temporary supports, work at height, and erection sequences.
• Strong commitment to HSE requirements, including Permit to Work (PTW), confined-space entry, working at height, lifting operations, hot work, and other construction activities associated with tanks and spheres.
• Ability to identify and report construction constraints, technical issues, material shortages, quality concerns, interface problems, and potential schedule delays to the Construction Management team.
• Ability to coordinate punch-list clearance, mechanical completion documentation, turnover dossiers, and handover to the pre-commissioning/commissioning team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline.
• 8-12 years of experience in mechanical installation or equipment erection within industrial projects.
• Proven experience in double containment (double-walled) tank systems and propane (LPG) storage tanks is mandatory.
• Hands-on experience in petrochemical, refinery, or gas storage projects.
• Strong knowledge of tank erection standards, welding, testing, and heavy lifting operations.
• Familiarity with international codes and standards related to storage tanks (API, ASME, etc.) is an advantage.
• PMC experience is preferred.
• Strong communication, coordination, and site supervision skills.