DESCRIPTION
The Lead Instrument Engineer reports to the Project Engineering Manager and shall be responsible for the effective design effort and coordination of the Sub-Contractor's discipline engineering professionals. The Lead Instrument Engineer shall ensure that all de-signs comply with the requirements of the Work; that all Work is efficiently and effectively executed in accordance with the criteria, specifications and standards listed in the CONTRACT; and that the designs comply with safe and reasonable standards as accepted within the offshore oil and gas industry. The Lead Instrument Engineer shall be responsible for his/her scope of work as given below:
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop design philosophies and design deliverables associated with the operations of equipment & facilities for the project scope.
- Supervise a group of engineers or functions as a technical specialist.
- Interface with project management team members and vendors to handle instrumentation related matters.
- Evaluate the optimum control system to be integrated with the existing systems.
- Coordination with other technical experts for maintenance of project standards.
- Ensure compliance to all codes and standards including regulatory requirement while the design and engineering is performed to ensure that project acceptance is not jeopardized due to errors and omissions in this respect.
- Ensuring that all engineering designs & drafting works, preparation of MTO's/BOM's and preparation of As Built drawings are carried out in accordance with the Project HSE and Quality policy.
- Ensuring that all COMPANY requirements regarding instrumentation are addressed and corrective actions are taken if any.
- Ensuring that non-conformances to the HSE/Quality system are properly addressed and corrective actions are taken.
- Interpretation of various design drawings, COMPANY specifications, etc and preparation and timely completion of design tasks.
- When needed, liaise with Classification Society/Certifying Authority on all aspects of design.
- Reporting weekly on progress of detailed design activities.
Comply with HSE requirements:
- Environmental Aspects & Impacts Assessment.
- OHS Hazardous & Risk Assessment.
- Follow HSE Regulations.
REQUIREMENTS
- Minimum educational requirements of a Bachelors and/or Masters degree in Instrument and control engineering or relevant disciplines.
- Direct experience working on FPSO projects.
- Minimum 10 years’ experience, with Oil & Gas projects (fixed installations and FPSOs), with significant experience working as a Senior or Lead Engineer.
- Must have prior work experience with medium/ large sized brownfield and/or greenfield projects in the upstream Oil and Gas sector, in a similar role and possess a good understanding of project phases, milestones, deliverables, internal and external interfaces.
- Shall be capable of supporting the development and implementing recommendations from third party safety studies and workshops, including HAZID/ENVID, SIL Classifications, Smoke, Gas, Fire and Explosion Risk Analyses, QRA, ALARP assessments, Fire and Gas Mappings and Noise Studies.
- Should have good interpersonal communication skills, structured but not rigid, should be able to take decisions and responsibility, pro-active and should possess good report writing skills.
- Good working knowledge on FEED and detail design requirements.
- Familiarity of design requirements on modules.
