Instrument Technician

About Petrofac

Petrofac is a leading international service provider to the energy industry, with a diverse client portfolio including many of the world's leading energy companies.

We design, build, manage, and maintain infrastructure for our clients. We recruit, reward, and develop our people based on merit, regardless of race, nationality, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability. We value our people and treat everyone who works for or with Petrofac fairly and without discrimination.

Our Energy Transition Journey

The world is re-thinking its energy supply and energy security needs and planning for a phased transition to alternative energy sources. We are here to help our clients meet these evolving energy needs.

Join Our Team

This is an exciting time to join us on this journey. We support flexible working requests and have adopted a hybrid approach for most of our office-based roles. We ask employees to be present in the office at least three days per week.

Key Responsibilities

• Carry out isolations and de-isolations as required and perform preventative and restorative maintenance duties and tasks safely and effectively on installation systems and equipment.
• Provide technical assistance and support during steady operations, process shutdowns, and start-ups.
• Perform all necessary servicing, conditioning, fault diagnosis and restorative maintenance duties and tasks safely, efficiently and effectively on field instrumentation and local control panels, process control equipment, fire & gas systems, safety equipment and systems, metering equipment, telecommunications systems and equipment under the supervision, when necessary, of a specialist contractor.
• Assist specialist contractor personnel as necessary in the undertaking and execution of preventative and corrective maintenance activity and tasks on the Instrumentation equipment.
• Re-prioritise preventative maintenance work as necessary to accommodate unforeseen corrective maintenance tasks to enable safety and production to be sustained and / or restored.
• Cooperate with the Petrofac Supervisor to coordinate the activities of the Instrument Technicians as necessary.
• Act as competent person, when required, in witnessing contractor tests on safety and control systems and equipment.
• Ensure work programmes and schedules are completed safely, efficiently, effectively and within planned timescales.
• Ensure all jobs are accompanied by the necessary and accurately completed documentation.
• Provide technical knowledge and experience in diagnosing and resolving maintenance and / or operational problems and identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Prepare work orders and work permits, requiring isolation as appropriate to progress maintenance activities.
• Input accurate data into SAP for recording of working time (Time writing) and historical data.
• Diagnose and rectify faults to maximise equipment availability and report all defects to management.
• Carry out effective troubleshooting to maximise Plant efficiency, identify spares required, and initiate ordering of same.

Essential Qualifications and Skills

• Basic Offshore Safety Induction and Emergency Training course.
• OGUK medical.
• ERT medical.
• MIST.
• Coxwains Training.
• Abrasive Wheels.
• Rotating Equipment Small Bore Tubing (RESBT) Stage 4.
• Mechanical Comp Ex.
• Rotalign Laser Awareness.
• Mechanical Joint Integrity Stage 3.
• Permit to work system awareness (preferably ISSoW).
• Computerized planned maintenance system (preferably SAP).
• STOP and/or Synergi awareness or equivalent.
• Manual handling.
• Team worker and team builder.
• Technical awareness.
• Accept responsibility.
• Initiative.
• Risk management.
• Written and oral communication.
• Safety conscious.
• Flexible and adaptable.
• Self-motivated.
• Ability to work at height, undertake confined space entry, and engage in lone working as required.
• Experience in the offshore industry is advantageous.