Lead C&i Designer

7 days ago


Aberdeen, United Kingdom PDMS Full time

**About The Role**:
Do you enjoy a challenge? Do you want to make a difference? Are you ready to engineer change within the industry and wider community?

At PD&MS, we’re determined to help drive the change that our world needs to see. To support current and new customers to be part of the energy transition, through future-friendly solutions.

You can be part of our vision

Working Pattern: Permanent / Full Time

As the Lead Control & Instrumentation Designer (C&I), you will:

- Lead a team of designers and coordinating work tasks to achieve required plan dates or be a senior / principal engineer looking for a step up in their career.
- Have great safety awareness and culture in all modifications involved in. Provide ownership, Input, and guidance in the fundamentals of Control and Instrumentation design.
- Be technically competent in own discipline and actively maintains own competence according to standards and pursues continuous professional development.
- Have experience in producing, checking, and approving deliverables that conform to all applicable industry engineering codes and standards as well as the client’s policies and procedures relative to the equipment being specified. Sound knowledge of relevant commonly used codes therefore required.
- Have the understanding and ability to interpret system Process and Instrument Diagrams, fabrication drawings and schematics is essential.
- The role offers
- Development opportunities: the opportunity to develop within your technical department, to be appreciated, to work with people who have the same goals and are driven to succeed.
- Varied workload: you’ll have the chance to transfer your skills and develop in our industry and deliver on projects across the fully energy sector, from conventional to renewable energies.
- Opportunities for transferable skills: if you’re experience isn’t traditional oil & gas, we still want to hear from you If you’ve EPC experience in nuclear, rail, utilities, petro-chemical, renewables, marine and pharmaceuticals then please apply.
- **Salary**: Competitive Salary depending on knowledge and experience plus a range of benefits that support your finances, wellbeing, and family.
- **Benefits**: Pension, Life Assurance, Income Protection, Private Medical Cover, Private Dental Cover, 33 days holiday, Holiday Buy, Flexible Working and Employee Assist Programme and CashPlan.
- **Location**: Aberdeen or Glasgow - hybrid working 3 days in the office with flexibility to work from home for 2 days.

**About You**:
You’ll have experience of:

- On/offshore FEED and detailed design Control and Instrumentation surveys and sourcing technical understanding. (Preferred but not essential)
- Control and Instrumentation design experience (Oil & Gas preferred but not essential) in delivery of Control and Instrumentation projects.
- Typical software packages used for Control and Instrumentation engineering design: - AUTOCAD (and RastorCAD) / MicroStation / Bluebeam.
- Producing, checking, and approving the below design deliverables: - Block Diagrams / Loop Diagrams / Termination Diagrams / Interconnection Diagrams / C&Es / Layout Diagrams / Cable Schedules / Hook-Up Diagrams / Material Requests / ReportsDemonstrable Experience and Knowledge in Field Instrument cabling particularly: - Control valves / Shutdown Valves / Pressure Safety Valves / Flowmeters / Pressure / Transmitters / Temperature Transmitters / Level Transmitters / Switches / F&G DetectorsDemonstrable Experience and Knowledge in Control system modification, particularly on the wiring interfaces between field instruments and between systems: - DCS/PCS / ESD/PSD/PSS / F&G / HIPPS / Metering / UCPs
- Demonstrable Experience and Knowledge in vendor liaison of all the systems vendors noted above.
- Offshore and onshore oil & gas business but similar transferrable industries skills will be also considered in leu of specific O&G experience.
- CE/ATEX and UKCA knowledge is essential.
- Demonstrable Experience and Knowledge in Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality systems.

**Personal attributes**

Our GENES, our core values, define who we are, what we stand for and how we deliver.
- Go the extra mile
- Empower our people
- Never get complacent
- Engage our partners
- Step up and deliver

If this sounds like you, then you could be a perfect fit.

**Qualifications**:

- HND in relevant engineering discipline / HNC in relevant engineering discipline
- Having offshore BOSIET, MIST and medical are preferred for the role with experience of site surveys.


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