PRINCIPAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEER - OFFSHORE (Qatar)

Key Responsibilities

Planning of man hour budgets, schedules, manpower loadings and staffing requirements, by skill and experience, to satisfy project requirements and direction given by the Discipline Manager. Ensures the project work is covered for vacation and unplanned absences. Ensures team member adherence to accepted engineering and design practices, regulatory requirements, and customer specifications. Supports the standardization of equipment specifications, drawings, and document templates. Contributes to the understanding of technical knowledge, legal requirements, and customer specifications whenever viable and lawful. Participate in project execution strategy and planning.

Knows the project and discipline scope/cost/time requirements, ensures the team to meets the expectations, and liaises with other disciplines to ensure project success. Supports management of project change and progressing for the discipline and works with the Project Management Team to take corrective actions regarding any issues, staffing requirements, scope changes, progressing, or other events that could affect project completion and/or profitability. Leads weekly Instrumentation & Control meetings, reviews progress reports and required checking procedures.

Initiate, manage and supervise engineering assignments on projects that meet project requirements on time and within budget. Organise and manage all aspects of the workload of a team of Instrumentation & Control discipline engineers and designers, within the parameters of a project schedule.

Reviews data from multiple sources and prepares engineering studies, analyses, calculations, and recommend actions. Crafts recommendations and reviews final documentation prior to customer approval. Determines technical issues, defines alternate solutions, establishes pros/cons for multiple solutions, and makes recommendations through official project documents such as technical queries, technical deviations, etc. Establish a list of discipline deliverables. Controls, monitors and progresses these deliverables to an agreed schedule. Reviews final documentation incorporating all relevant information and pursues customer approval. Participates in bid clarifications, conducts bid evaluations, completes interdiscipline vendor information review and approval, and finalizes other certification activities.

Quality Assurance

Responsible for working within the provisions and guidelines of the Quality Assurance systems. Work with project managers/project engineers to ensure all projects are set up and executed in full compliance with all the requirements of the Project Management Process (WPMP) and General Management System (EMS) using consistent approaches, Work Breakdown Structures, work methodologies and reporting systems. Monitors the closure of all identified risks and opportunities.

Safety

Responsible for personal safety safe working practices. Understand and follow OH&S procedures. Promoting health, safety and environmental awareness.

Education – Qualifications, Accreditation, Training

Full-Time Bachelor’s Degree in Instrumentation/Electronics Engineering from an accredited university. MME (Ministry of Municipality and Environment) engineering accreditation is a mandatory requirement. Candidates not holding this accreditation must be willing to achieve this within the probationary period. Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) status or undertaking the same will be an advantage.

Industry Specific Experience

Extensive work experience at a senior level within the Oil & Gas industry. Vast design experience within the oil and gas industry, with last 5 years’ at least, leading a team of Instrumentation & Control discipline engineers and designers. Extensive technical, practical and leadership experience in the Instrumentation & Control discipline in the same or similar industry, including experience managing and leading multi-disciplinary projects and teams.

Key Essentials

• Recent experience in Offshore Oil & Gas projects.
• Feasibility studies, Concept studies, FEED and EPC experience.
• Functional Safety.
• Control Systems.
• Fire and Gas IT Skills: DCS, SIL 3 F&G and ESD, PA/GA system.

IT Skills

• DCS, SIL 3 F&G, ESD, PA/GA system.