Control Engineer I

Job Description/Specification:

JOB DIMENSIONS

• Provide front line Control & Safety system technical / engineering support and solutions.
• Technical specialist in ICSS Control & Safety system Maintenance / Engineering, Control & Safety system Discipline Engineer.
• Position interacts daily with Offshore C&I Supervisors, Tier 2 Maintenance Coordinators, Operations Centre Manager / personnel, Departmental Planners, Contracts & Procurement Department, Warehouse, Maintenance Department and Offshore Team Leaders.
• Position has interactions with external stakeholders (Contractor Management).
• Provide input into budgets and draw on experience to highlight any unusual or unexpected impacts on budgets from unplanned or unaccounted work scopes.

CONTEXT AND ENVIRONMENT

• Position is in a Joint Venture Operating Company on the Al Shaheen oil and gas field, one of the largest offshore oil and gas fields in the world.
• The role is onshore based in Doha, Qatar and is a permanent staff position on a residential basis (5 day working week).
• Role will require regular offshore trips together with visits to contractor offices and facilities.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Ensure highest safety and technical support in the assessment and recommendations for Control and Safety systems.
• Maintenance activities, issue procedures and technical support for its discipline
• Provide all aspects of Control and Safety systems engineering/technical support and assistance to offshore team, Operations Center, Maintenance support and Shutdown/Campaign entity.
• Responsible for the technical administration of all Control and Safety systems spare parts for field operation, from its creation to its refurbishment or end of life.
• Provide immediate support in close liaison with Tier 2 Maintenance Coordinator, Operations Centre Manager / personnel, Offshore stakeholders, Departmental Planners, Contracts and Procurement Department, Warehouse, Maintenance Department.

ACTIVITIES

• Encourage and foster Incident Free environment through role model safety behaviors, take corrective action wherever necessary.
• Foster and reinforce positive HSE performance by vendor personnel, contractors and peers.
• Ensuring compliance with HSE legislation, company standards and procedures under the area of responsibility to ensure employee safety, legislative compliance, and responsible environmental attitude.
• Provide first level / front line specialist technical advice and guidance to site / offshore personnel on the maintenance of plant / equipment troubleshooting, root cause analysis and investigations where required involving multidiscipline teams.
• Provide technical and administrative support to the site base operations; preparation of scopes of work for short term interventions, organization of vendors, supply direct support to site requests (vendors, spare parts, tooling, technical procedures, work packs and work order resourcing.
• Ensure daily communication with NOC-OC T2 & Maintenance Engineers in T3 and provide support where required on technical issues. Attend any video conference call with offshore OTL’s and Discipline Supervisors.
• Proactive management of all safety and business critical backlog.
• Visit offshore sites on regular basis to enhance collaboration and promote the understanding of goals to ensure information flow is maintained efficiently.
• Visit vendor workshops / Lab for Factory Acceptance Test(FAT) if required.
• Manage the repair process for critical equipment, including visits to local vendor workshops and warehouses.
• Monitor the efficiency of the maintenance strategies for the maintenance, inspection and operation of Plant / Equipment and feedback to Maintenance Engineering.
• Ensure 4 months and 5 weeks planning are optimized, liaise with planning department, and attend weekly IOP meetings to ensure gate criteria are achieved. (Spares, vendor mobilizations, tooling, shipment, PR’s)
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency of all activities, improve equipment reliability and reduce operating costs.
• Contractor / Vendor performance management.
• Share and adopt best practices across the company, support and identify opportunities to enhance consistency and alignment between assets, where practicably possible.
• All staff must be willing to participate in Crisis Response Training and to assist during Emergency Response Situations if required.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Control & Instrumentation Engineering or equivalent

Experience

• Minimum of 07 years’ experience working in the Oil and Gas industry in a similar role or oil & gas automation engineering firm.
• Significant understanding and knowledge of Offshore Oil and Gas Plant / Equipment and expert in Control & Instrumentation
• Maintenance / Engineering for the same.
• YOKOGAWA Prosafe RS ESD System
• YOKOGAWA CENTUM VP DCS
• YOKOGAWA Plant resource manager (PRM), Plant Information Management System (PIMS), Alarm Management System (ARA)
• ICSS Infrastructure System Knowledge Domain Controller, Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Platform, Vmware ESxi, Fortinet
• Firewall, Hirschmann network(L2/L3) switch, Acronis, Trellix, WSUS, Whatsup Gold, Cogent DataHub etc.
• Industrial Protocol (Modbus Serial/TCP, OPCDA, OPCUA, Profibus, Profinet etc.)
• Allan Bradley RSlogix 500/5000
• Siemens PCS7 knowledge is a must including (Simatic Step 7, Wincc, F-systems, Redundant H-System & S7-400) as advantage
• Versatile, resilient, and able to interact effectively working in a multi-cultural and highly technical specialized environment.
• Thorough understanding and application of industry process safety guidelines and procedures.
• Thorough knowledge of cross discipline maintenance requirements, Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
• and planning processes.
• Good communicator and able to interact effectively with peers / Line Management.
• Medically fit to travel to offshore Oil and Gas Platforms.
• Results driven approach and attitude.
• Fluent in English written and oral communication skills.
• Industry recognized training and professional certification. TUV FsEng and/or GICSP is advantage.