Instrument Technical Authority

Reporting to the EI&C Team leader, you will be the Instrument Technical Authority responsible for establishing and maintaining a suite of Instrument standards, practices and procedures aimed at delivering consistent engineering activity across our operations and projects.
 
Responsibilities

• Accountable for site standards and processes relevant to the design, operation and maintenance of instrumentation and protective systems
• Develop and own our Functional Safety Management System in compliance with the requirements of EN 61511
• Provide Instrument engineering assurance to projects, including formal review of external engineering documentation
• Custodian and ownership of common Instrument discipline processes such as Functional Safety Analysis (FSA)
• Carry out and approve SIF reliability calculations
• Provide technical responses to discipline related Technical Queries (TQs)
• Define Instrument Engineering competency requirements and provide assurance of business wide Instrumentation competency and discipline health
• Technical review and approval of relevant discipline MOCs
• Provide Instrument expertise to incident investigations
• Define long term opportunities for Instrumentation improvements
• Lead or contribute to safety reviews, risk assessments and investigations as the instrumentation engineering focal point
• Support the maintenance teams by developing planned maintenance routines
• Support the maintenance teams in regard to equipment breakdowns, including investigation of equipment faults and defect elimination
• Support the planning and execution of shutdowns and major outages/turnarounds

 
Experience & Qualifications

• Candidates will hold a Degree in Instrumentation Engineering
• Be a Chartered Instrument Engineer or working towards chartership
• Hold Supervisor experience
• Gained TUV Functional Safety Certification
• Be familiar with CDM Regulations
• Hold extensive Operation & Maintenance experience in the oil & gas industry
• Knowledge of instrument engineering principles and proven ability to apply them to real-world problems
• Knowledge and experience of the design, operation, commissioning and maintenance of Safety Instrumented Systems to IEC 61511

 
 
For more information on this role, please contact Ashleigh North on 07708 297 513  or Ashleigh.North@nesfircroft.com  
 
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