Senior Instrument Engineer

Job description / Role

- Developing procedures, work instructions, checklists etc as appropriate and support maintaining and improving the compliance to ISO and other quality systems.
- Review and develop procedures for improving instrumentation reliability and performance and optimize maintenance cost.
- Review, analyze, cost estimation and prepares or reviews design work related with minor and major capital projects for modifications / upgrades / re-engineering to existing systems or installation of new systems, executed by maintenance department.
- Studies and analyses frequent / repeated failures / bad actors and proposes appropriate solutions.
- Participate in preparation of capital and operating budgets.
- Ensuring compliance to maintenance requirements of safety systems, HSE policy and procedures.
- Working closely and supporting the team in troubleshooting and rectification of mal-functions / failures. Identifying the root cause and suggests short and long term corrective actions, aiming at improving the reliability.
- Identification of spares and planning stocking of spares to ensure availability of all critical spares. Identifying the inter-changeability and optimizing the inventory.
- Identifying items becoming obsolete or having maintainability issues, developing solutions and appropriate action plans and support implementation of the same in liaison with concerned departments.
- Reviewing, analyzing the causes of problems, conducting RCA, in liaison within department, vendors, licensors, etc., investigating by physical checking and documentary evidence, proposing solutions for implementation, or preparing report and recommendations for approval.
- Designs minor plant modifications in area of responsibility and follows through project to completion.
- Provide technical training to the junior staff.

Requirements

- Bachelor's Degree in Instrumentation/Electronics
- Minimum 10 years of experience in Oil & Gas, Refining, Petrochemical industry, which shall include minimum 05 years of experience in maintenance function.

Should be proficient with maintenance of equipment in the Instrumentation discipline like the following:
- HART and FF field instruments
- Various types and makes of control valves, hydraulic actuators and servo valves etc.
- Anti-surge and performance control systems
- Machine monitoring and protection systems
- Various types of flow meters like turbine, ultrasonic, coriollis, thermal mass flow etc.
- Flow metring systems
- Batch control systems and related instruments
- Loading systems
- High level of technical skills on control systems like DCS, ESD, FGS, PLC systems, Governing systems, integrated control systems for rotating machinery are essential.
- Shall have a fair knowledge / understanding of maintenance of other disciplines within maintenance
- High level of technical skills and experience on process analysers, fire & gas systems will be an advantage.
- Basic PC skills are essential.
- Strong grasp of Quality and Safety standards and procedures.

About the Company

Orpic is one of Oman’s largest and most rapidly growing businesses in the Middle East oil industry. Orpic’s refineries in Suhar and Muscat, as well as the aromatics and polypropylene production plants in Suhar, provide fuel, chemicals, plastics and other petroleum products, to Oman and the world.

Owned by the Government of the Sultanate of Oman and Oman Oil Company SAOC, Orpic’s impressive integration of refinery and plant operations coupled with its ambitious growth plans, has cemented its position as one of the industry’s most forward-thinking companies. The company currently recruits around 2,600 employees who work towards the common goal of an integrated Omani refining and petrochemicals business expected to increase to 3,000 by 2020.

Orpic is committed to operating safely and reliably, while paying due care to the environment and the communities within which it operates. The company strongly believes in serving Oman with pride.