Instrument Engineer (Aberdeen)
 
The Instrument Engineer will be responsible for assuring that all assigned assets are operated, maintained and developed within their design envelop. 
 
 Roles & Responsibilities;
 

• Responsible for ensuring that designated assets are operated within their design envelop, current best practice guidance and legislation
• Responsible for on-going technical assurance of the asset instrument systems and equipment's
• Responsible for assuring software change control procedures on all software based instrumented systems are complied with and managing users in the software change control system
• Provide front line technical support to operations
• Raise technical queries and produce scope of work for change requests to resolve operating issues with the platform
• Perform offshore troubleshooting of operational issues and plant trials of improvements
• Monitor performance of ICSS SCADA packages including ExaQuantum, SER, SFM, ARA and PRM   and implement improvements in platform monitoring and verification reporting
• Conduct performance reviews to identify improvement opportunities including bad actor analysis and root cause analysis
• Monitor and evaluate maintenance and fault rectification on instrumented systems
• Liaise with major projects group on discipline specific technical issues
• Review of design deliverables from engineering contractor
• Provide operations commissioning assistance to brownfield modifications including management of support vendors
• Participate in management of change (MoC) process and ensure instrument modifications are risk assessed and comply with MoC procedures
• Participate in Performance Standard Non-Compliance (PSNC) process to ensure incremental risk are assessed to determine if it is safe to continue to operate and comply with Performance Standard Non-Compliance process.
• Responsible for preparation and annual budget control for instrument & telecoms.
• Responsible for management of healthcare support contracts including KPI reviews
• Provide Instrument input to production loss reporting
• Collaborate with production engineers to develop data visualization, machine learning/analytics tools to improve asset availability and uptime
• Responsible for assuring remote access procedures on all software based instrument systems are complied with and managing users in the remote access software system
• Responsible for assuring Cyber security procedures are complied with and audit actions implemented

 
 
Candidate Criteria:
 

• Degree qualified Engineer with relevant detail design experience and significant operations involvement. 
• Experience with Yokogawa Centum VP and/or ProSafe RA systems
• Good knowledge of IEC 61511 & IEC 62443 lifecycle and verification requirements
• An ability to work under pressure
• Current working knowledge of instrument engineering, guidance and legislation, as it is applied by an E&P operator in the UK NS sector
• Be able to demonstrate commitment to safety, led by example
• Commercial awareness
• Preferably Chartered Engineer with professional engineering institute such as IET or InstMC
• Aware of latest technical developments and commitment to maintaining competence through CPD

 
 
Required Behaviours:
 

• Collaborative - To work and communicate effectively with colleagues, partners and all other stakeholders. Respecting the knowledge and experience of others, sharing information and building effective relationships
• Drive - To strive for excellence. Being energetic, passionate and resilient, taking personal accountability for performance and delivering results
• Problem Solving  - Ability to analyses multiple  sources of data, make connections & create  high quality solutions, prioritising the key issues  & consequences.
• Flexibility to react to operational priorities, i.e. reacting to ad-hoc evening/weekend calls.

With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.