Instrument Engineer

Contract Duration: 12 Months

Location: Aberdeen

Purpose of Role: The primary purpose of this position is to provide discipline engineering support to UK operations to ensure equipment integrity and regularity. This role supports breakdowns, delivers the maintenance plan in accordance with maintenance strategy and supports plant optimisation.

Critical Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that all activities are carried out in a safe manner complying with all regulatory requirements, legislation and HSES Procedures.
• Supports Instrument SECE degradation / threat management risk assessments and maintenance deferment risk assessments.
• Responsible for monitoring equipment/system performance initiating and ensuring corrective actions.
• Responsible for discipline engineering and maintenance support to UK operations.

Areas of Accountability, Responsibility and Competence:

• Provide discipline support to operated assets and project teams.
• Deliver maintenance plans/programs to ensure cost effective operation and asset integrity throughout facility lifetime.
• Fully adhere to planning processes to ensure right first time delivery of instrument workscopes.
• Responsible to provide budget input/scope for maintenance and modifications.
• Responsible for continuously challenging technical solutions, engineering performance and cost of modification projects.
• Review vendor workpacks to ensure compliance with performance standard requirements.
• Coordinate & robustly manage vendors to successfully deliver planned maintenance.
• Collaborate with key vendors to collectively problem solve/deliver complex scope.
• Raise TWMs where complex technical solutions and modifications are required.
• Provide an optimised preventive maintenance program, including detailed work packages.
• Responsible for equipment performance including spare part management and warranty follow up.
• Own management of change for non like-for-like instrument scopes.
• Mobilise offshore as and when required by business.
• ER Allowance - The postholder may be required to join the emergency response rota should this become a requirement of the position.

Critical Skills, Qualifications, Experience, etc.:

• Educated to engineering degree level or satisfactory equivalent e.g. HND/HNC plus preferable qualifications/experience and/or vocational certificates.
• Membership of professional body working towards Chartership preferred.
• Operational and engineering experience preferred.
• Developing relevant technical experience.
• Offshore experience.
• Understanding of processes required to meet HSE objectives.
• Fully conversant with UK regulatory environment.
• Developing understanding of Corporate and budget, maintenance and project management processes and tools.
• Self-driven. Strong personal leadership and drive toward teamwork.
• Ability to perform effectively within a strong peer group and to drive toward optimal business solutions.
• Good communication, influencing, negotiating and networking skills. Builds excellent relationships. Respected internally and externally.