Trainers Profile

Ir. Dr. Edwin Jong Nyon Tchan (HRDF Certified Trainer)

ABS, BSc (Hons), MSc (London), PhD (Imperial College), DIC, FIEM, FIMM, FIMMM, CEng, PEng, AAE.

Ir. Dr. Edwin Jong has graduated with a Doctorate Engineering Degree in Materials Engineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London, England, United Kingdom. During his 21-year employment in Sarawak Shell Berhad in Miri, he has gained extensive hands-on working experiences dealing with materials and corrosion engineering, welding technologies and inspection techniques. He has also gained an extended experiences with various aspects of deepwater engineering design projects after being transferred to Shell Malaysia Regional Deepwater Engineering Project residing in Kuala Lumpur until he retired in April 2012.

In summary, Ir Dr Edwin Jong has gained seven years of scientific research experiences while working as a research scientist with ICI Advanced Materials Research in Runcorn and a total of 21 years working experiences mainly in the Oil and Gas Industry upstream sector, holding various positions as Company Metallurgist, Senior Materials & Corrosion Engineer, Principal Materials& Corrosion Engineer, Senior RBI Engineer, Senior Materials & Welding Engineer cum Team Lead and a Technical Authority (TA) dealing with all technical aspects of Materials and Corrosion Engineering, Welding Technology, RBI-based Integrity Assessment and Inspection Techniques.

Mr. Bernard Sim (HRDF Certified Trainer)

Mr. Bernard Maxmillan Sim is a HRDF certified trainer and a JWES certified Senior Welding Engineer, API 510 Pressure Vessel Inspector, API 570 Piping Inspector, CWB Level III Welding Inspector, CSWIP 3.2 Senior Welding Inspector and Radiographic Interpreter, CSWIP/BGAS Painting Inspector II, ASNT level II Magnetic Particle Testing, Dye Penetrant Testing and Ultrasonic Testing, Bachelor in Construction Management, Diploma in International Welding Inspector, Diploma in European Welding Inspection Practitioner, Diploma in Mechanical Engineering and Certificate in Petroleum Engineering.

Mr. Bernard Sim is currently attached to Bureau Veritas Malaysia as an Industry Manager. Until to-date, he has gained 13 years of working experiences in areas of welding certification, inspection, testing and approval for onshore and offshore structures, marine vessels, modules, process piping, pressure vessels and lifting equipment.

He often gives lectures to in-house shipbuilding and marine surveyors and fabricator quality control personnel. He is conversant with most of international welding codes such as API 577 & 1104, ASME IX, AWS D1.1, ISO 15607 & 9606 & 15, BS 287 & 288 etc.

Mr. Chin Teck Eng (HRDF Certified Trainer)

Mr. Chin Teck Eng has possessed 13 years of working experiences in marine shipbuilding industry. He has vast working experiences in preparation of Quality Management System (QMS) documentation, Welding Procedure Specification (WPS) and inspection for building new vessels. He coordinates and ensures project procedures, method statements and project relevant documents are being established, approved in timely manner and implemented effectively. He leads the team of project and inspection for all the quality inspection activities from welding inspection, NDT, ship heavy/light machinery installation cum shaft — cardan shaft/pump alignment, until the whole vessel commissioning up to sea worthiness.

He also monitors quality implementation on-site and reviews reports generated by inspectors/engineers in-charge. He is conversant in IACS Member, Classification Society such as BV, NK rules & regulations, IACS Recommendation 47/ UR W28 and ISO codes.

Mr. Ibas (Certified Welder Trainer)

Mr. Ibas has 30 years of hands-on welding experiences at on-shore and offshore structural welding, tank repairs and maintenance, process piping and construction vessels. He is a Shell/Petronas Approved Skilled Welder and gained vast experiences working with MJVI Sdn Bhd, Mechico Sdn Bhd, Rekayasa Industri Malaysia Sdn Bhd and SKS Wood Sdn Bhd.

He has also possessed vast working experiences in offshore maintenance and construction, facilities and onshore fabrication works with an extensive experiences of all welding works including SMAW and GTAW up to 6G.

He is currently a certified welder for GTAW and SMAW welding processes.