Instrumentation Specialist

4 days ago


North East Glasgow, United Kingdom NES Fircroft Full time
Job Description

Our client, a leading global manufacturer of Petrochemical, Speciality Chemicals and Oil products, is seeking an experienced Instrumentation Specialist to join their team in Aberdeen. As an Instrumentation Specialist, you will provide critical support to the operations site-based team, ensuring the safe and efficient operation of instrument and control systems.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and implement improvements to instrument and protective systems, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
  • Act as the primary point of contact for site projects, including studies, and provide technical expertise to ensure successful project execution.
  • Lead discipline improvements in plant reliability, equipment strategy, defect elimination, and equipment rationalization, driving business growth and efficiency.
  • Define and own the asset's instrument and control systems spares strategy, ensuring optimal inventory management and cost savings.
  • Lead discipline improvements in plant reliability, root cause analysis, defect elimination, and continuous improvement, driving business excellence.
  • Participate in safety reviews, risk assessments, and investigations as the Instrumentation and Control Systems engineering focal point, ensuring a safe working environment.
  • Act as custodian of asset maintenance strategies for instrument and control systems equipment, ensuring optimal maintenance planning and execution.
  • Support the maintenance team in regards to equipment breakdown, including investigation of fault, defect resolution, and execution of breakdown maintenance.
  • Monitor and advise on the technical and safety implications of any maintenance backlog, ensuring proactive maintenance planning.
  • Act as custodian of key instrument and control systems engineering documentation, including control philosophies, cause and effect diagrams, hazardous area drawings, loop diagrams, trip and alarms registers, and alarm response manuals, ensuring up-to-date documentation.
  • Provide technical support to asset TAR activities, ensuring successful project execution.
  • Coach asset instrument technicians to ensure their competency and skills are continually improved, driving business excellence.
  • Participate in incident management teams, ensuring a safe working environment.
  • Travel to offshore platforms or remote onshore sites to provide technical support, ensuring business continuity.
  • Support planned and unplanned outages, ensuring minimal business disruption.
  • Participate in the Asset self-audit program, driving business excellence.
Requirements
  • Hold a Degree in Instrument Engineering or a related field.
  • Be a Chartered Engineer or actively working to achieve chartered status.
  • Hold BOSIET, Medical, and MIST certifications for offshore travel.
  • Have at least 5 years' experience in the Oil and Gas, Refining, or Chemical Industries, with knowledge and experience of instrument and control systems design, operation, commissioning, and maintenance.
  • Have a comprehensive understanding and applied knowledge of relevant UK Regulatory (Safety Case, COMAH, etc.) and industry standards.


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