Ogide Ezebulunwo Obed (MSc, B.Eng , R.Engr (COREN ) )

Experience

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  Sahara Group

  Dec 2012 - Mar 2013

  Graduate Engineering Trainee

  Four(4) months extensive and comprehensive hands-on the job training on general operations and maintenance of gas turbine power plant, 150MW (6x25MW GE frame 5 MS5001 PA) installed capacity power plant, including all the plant systems, sub-systems and BOP.

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  NGPOWER LIMITED (Subsidiary of Sahara Group)

  Apr 2013 - Nov 2014

  Team Member - Instrumentation and Control/Shift Operator

  Responsibilities: • In charge of operations, monitoring and control of field instruments on the Human Machine Interface (HMI)• Gas turbine start up and shutdown following standard procedures• Ensure that plant operations follow acceptable procedures and machines are running at optimal performance • Proper and safe machines and auxiliaries performance monitoring and analysis.• Ensure that plant auxiliaries such as Auxiliary lube oil pump (88QA), Emergency lube oil pump (88QEZ), Hydraulic Ratchet pump (HR), and Vapour separator (88QV) work within acceptable performance.• Availability and reliability checks on standby machines/systems such as Emergency Power Supply (Black Start), Compressors, Fire Hydrant Pumps, etc.• Hourly, daily and monthly routine checks on all meters, gauges, displays, motors, BOP, and raising of Trouble Memo (TM) for any fault detected.• Synchronization of units to LIVE or DEAD bus – LV, MV and HV synchronization.• Synchronization of HV bus with the national grid• Sending out daily operations report and general operations documentations/logging. Show less

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  First Independent Power Limited Company

  Dec 2014 - now

  • In charge of planning, leading and coordinating all activities in instrumentation and control department and other cross-functional activities for the smoothing running of 136MW installed capacity power plant.• Prepare departmental annual budget, provide technical reports on maintenance activities, ensure technical designs and specifications by vendors/contractors meet agreed standard• Provide technical information for procurement of parts/spares and follow up with inventory and procurement departments to ensure that parts needed for maintenance are available at all times• Provide job scope, review contractors’ technical proposals, designs and specifications and ensure close supervision to ensure agreed standard is met.• Coordinate team of Engineers and technicians in carrying out preventive, corrective and planned maintenance activities timely to reduce downtime• Provide yearly performance objectives(PO) for team members, conduct mid-year and annual appraisals, support and encourage team members’ technical development and productivity through coaching and learning sessions• Attend mid-management meetings and strategize for business development; interface with other stakeholders Show less • Successfully led team of I&C engineers and technicians for plant control system change from Mark VI control system to Sentinel-C• Successfully led team of technicians for commissioning of gas turbine power plant, involving field instrumentation, cabling, calibrations, terminations, valves, panels, Fibre optic cables, fire and gas detectors, etc.• Involved and successfully commissioned plant metering system, using Coriolis flow meter, memograph and gas chromatograph(gas analyzer)• Handled planning, scheduling, preparation and execution of jobs successfully• Actioned the provision of accurate technical information for procurement of equipment, spare parts and other materials for the I&C department• Coordinated and coached industrial trainees and young engineers in instrumentation and control.• Identified recurrent corrective maintenance interventions and proffered suggestions for improvement Show less Responsibilities:• Process and control Instrumentation Selection, Sizing, installation and Calibration• Ensure instrument maintenance work is executed in line with approved work requirements and ensure appropriate work permit is granted before any instrument maintenance activity is carried out• Installation, testing and commissioning of control instruments such as pressure transmitters, gauges, switches, temperature switches, vibration sensors; fire, heat and gas detectors; solenoid and servo valves, thermocouples and RTDs, etc.• Cold and hot loop checks from field instruments to Marshalling panel and to control system or DCS• Cable laying, lugging and tagging from field to control room and termination in panels• Maintenance/Servicing of MESD, ESD, PCV; calibration of pressure transmitters, pressure and temperature switches, SRV, GCV, IGV, etc.• Repair of GE Speedtronic control systems – MK V, VI, Fire & Gas systems• Alarms analysis, tracing of root cause, troubleshooting of faults, carry out preventive and corrective maintenance, maintenance planning, sourcing of spare parts• Prepare daily, weekly and monthly maintenance report for the attention of line manager Show less

  • Senior Team Lead - Instrumentation and Control

    Jun 2022 - now

  • Team Lead - Instrumentation & Control

    Apr 2019 - Jun 2022

  • Instrumentation and Control Engineer

    Dec 2014 - Mar 2019