Bright Didanda

An accomplished Mechanical Field Engineer with significant hands-on experience in oil and gas, offshore installations, power plant projects, turnaround/maintenance, and troubleshooting of heavy-duty gas and steam turbines, ensuring 100% quality assurance and 0% rework. I specialize in providing engineering services during project execution, ensuring that assigned objectives, contractual obligations, and safety standards are met.

MECHANICAL ENGINEER at M/V GLOBAL MERCY, MERCY SHIPS (2024-01 – Present)

• Engine control room operations.
• Maintenance of pumps, valves and compressors and other ship auxiliaries
• Monitoring ship equipment performance and taking appropriate actions when alarms are activated.
• Carry out weekly/monthly maintenance on lifeboat
• Carry out maintenance on disiel main engines.
• Maintenance and repair of OMPECO NV60 -M060 -100H - H10 Medical waste converter.
• Carry out weekly, monthly and yearly checks, maintenance and repair on the medical waste converter, EVAC Incinerator DS500, Silo and Shredder.
• Maintenance of the EVAC Mambrane Bioreactor (MBR).
• Maintenance of EVAC sewage systems

MECHANICAL SUPPORT ENGINEER at QUARTZELEC LIMITED (2021-01 – 2023-12)

• Successfully carried out the stator visual inspection on the Siemens V94.2 gas turbine.
• Carried out 500VDC Maggering (10 minutes polarization index test).
• Carried out the bearing and seal visual inspection, rotor cleaning and also performed 500V insulation resistance test and 10minutes polarization index (PI).
• Successfully reassembled some parts of the Siemens V94.2 Generator components.
• Reassembled the upper and lower bars.
• Heating of the upper and lower bars.
• Carried out the necessary insulation and brazing of the H-clips.
• Successfully tied the micas and reassembled the wedges.

FIELD ENGINEER at FIELDCORE a GE company (GE Vernova) (2018-01 – 2021-12)

• Contributed in a major inspection activity on GE Frame 9E.03 gas turbine at Ibom Power Company in Nigeria, from the start of the outage to the synchronization stage, producing 189MW to the grid.
• Contributed the disassembly and reassembly of all turbine parts during the outage.
• Carried out inspections on the compressor and other internal components in the gas turbine.
• Contributed in the disassembled and reassembled the combustion cans, flow sleeves, combustion linear, outer crossfire tube and the inner crossfire tube.
• Successfully disassembled and reassembled the 1st, 2nd & 3rd stage shrouds and nozzles.
• Carefully carried out the transition piece set back clearance.
• Assisted in the boroscope inspection on major parts of the gas turbine component with designated timeline leading to a 100% success rate.
• Successfully performed concentricity check to ensure the symmetrical features.
• Carried out ellipticity check to ensure the roundness of the 1st stage nozzle.

MECHANICAL ENGINEER at FIELDCORE a GE company (GE Vernova) (2018-01 – 2021-12)

Alstom 200MW Steam Turbine at Afam VI Combined Cycle Power Plant

• Coordinated and directed the disassembly and reassembly of the steam turbine parts.
• Assisted in the boroscope inspections of major parts of the steam turbine components
• Inspected and supervised the use of special tools and powered tools for the project.
• Assisted the Technical Advisor to ensure quality reassembly of the steam turbine parts.
• Reported daily progress on mechanical activities to the site manager.

MECHANICAL ENGINEER at FIELDCORE a GE company (GE Vernova) (2018-01 – 2021-12)

Alstom GT13E2 gas turbine at Afam VI Combined Cycle Power Plant

• Successfully carried out a C-Inspection, an MXL2 Upgrade on the Alstom GT13E2 gas turbine. the first of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa at Afam VI Combined Cycle Power Plant.
• Assisted in carrying a quality disassembly and reassembly of the turbine parts.
• Assisted in boroscope inspection of major parts of the gas turbine components.
• Inspected the cleaning of some turbine parts/components.
• Assisted in carrying out mechanical activities from the start of the outage to the synchronization stage.

MECHANICAL ENGINEER, TRAINEE at SHELL PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION (SPDC) (2016-01 – 2016-12)

• Carried out preventive maintenance and corrective maintenance on Closed Cooling Water (CCW).
• Carried out preventive maintenance and corrective maintenance on the plant BOP's.
• Provision of full engineering technical support to maintenance and operations during maintenance, repair, modification, commissioning and testing of the plant machinery and equipment.
• Participate in root cause failure analysis to prevent re-occurrence of rotating equipment failure.
• Carried out preventive maintenance and corrective maintenance on the Air-Cooling Condenser (ACC).
• Carried out preventive maintenance and corrective maintenance lube oil pumps, emergency generator, and the fire pump house.
• Periodically replaced the gas turbines air intake filters
• Periodically replaced the oil filters.

Higher National Diploma in Mechanical Engineering – FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC, NEKEDE, IMO STATE, NIGERIA