Senior C&I Engineer

Our client, an Oil and Gas Operator, is seeking an experienced Control and Instrumentation Engineer. This is a 12 Month PAYE contract role based in Aberdeen.

Role Purpose

• Provides control and instrumentation engineering expertise to the operating assets.
• SECE owner for assigned Performance Standards.
• Support safe operations and delivery recovery plans to address assigned ORA’s and Asset Risks.
• Support project delivery by inputting to project specifications, attending HAZOPs/LOPAs, reviewing project deliverables and answering technical queries.
• Providing technical support to the operations & maintenance teams on control & instrumentation issues.
• Pro-actively interact with other disciplines, teams and contractors to ensure quality and consistent application of engineering processes and workflows.
• Maintain, enhance & audit Client Performance Standards and maintenance strategies.
• Identify and deliver opportunities to increase efficiency & production.
• Identify change opportunities to optimise asset configuration.
• Manage obsolescence threats to ensure reliability of the equipment through field life.
• Provide support and guidance to the asset operations EC&I engineer.

Travel Required

Offshore platform visits and Factory Acceptance Testing as required.

Main Tasks

• Provides support to Control & Instrumentation Asset Support Engineer as required including holiday cover.
• Ensures operating discipline on activities specific to the asset control & instrumentation, telecommunications, and metering engineering role to sustain safe, reliable and compliant operations.
• Provides input into OMS gap assessments.
• Ensures asset control & instrumentation, and telecommunications risks are understood, controlled and continuously reduced, to help deliver safe operations.
• Supports conformance with the client and regulatory requirements.
• Responsible for compliance and updates to relevant Performance Standards.
• The development and ensuring the execution of relevant equipment maintenance strategies.
• Ensures the engineering information is up to date in the asset risk register including actions and due dates.
• Discipline input and ensures compliance with management of change procedure.
• Participates in risk assessments and longer-term asset engineering studies e.g. HAZOPs, LOPAs etc. where required.
• Provides technical input on operations procedures where required.
• Ensure appropriate instrument & control, telecoms and metering engineering codes and client standards are adhered to during modifications to the asset.
• Monitor and manage discipline specific KPIs.
• Provides input into asset defect elimination, initiates Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) for production deferrals and identifies production vulnerabilities.
• Participates and provides input into asset meetings as required.
• Supports asset to analyse performance data and to create interventions as required.
• Participates in improvement initiatives where relevant.
• Tracks and manages instrument and safety system defects, risks and vulnerabilities.
• Communicates instrument & control, telecoms and metering lessons learned to Site personnel.
• Provides input to ensure gate criteria readiness for activities entering the asset schedules are enforced.
• Delivery of minor modifications and repairs.
• Cost management of the agreed budgets for activities assigned.
• Performs relevant formal technical assessments of the SECE vs Performance Standard requirements.
• Conducts self-verification on key operations and engineering processes and procedures as required.
• Follows up on actions and observations from self-verification checks that are related to instrument & control, telecoms and metering engineering.
• Supports business with Cyber Security management related to Operational Technology systems.

Professional and Behavioural Skills, Educational Requirements

• Significant experience in field instrumentation, process control and shutdown systems.
• Experience of Instrumentation Control Safety Systems including Fire & Gas.
• Experience in metering/measurement/analysing equipment.
• Experience of operations-critical telecoms systems.
• Expert knowledge of discipline regulatory requirements, technical codes/standards/guidelines.
• Expert Knowledge of new and emerging technology and innovation.
• Management experience of 3rd parties and package management including budgetary preparation, cost control and contractual awareness.
• Understanding of Availability and asset management processes.
• Demonstrates creative thinking and problem solving including generating innovative solutions.

Education Requirements

• Degree qualified in a relevant discipline.
• Chartered Engineer in a relevant discipline preferred.