Machinery Control Engineer Specialist

Job description / Role

Vacancy overview

Machinery control engineering specialist

Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process, and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to our clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with the unique needs of our clients. With over 800 employees and 6,000 contractors operating in over 50 countries, our geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry.

Airswift is seeking a machinery control engineering specialist to work with our client based in Qatar.

Job purpose

Advise and support machinery control systems implementation during EPC and startup phase until handover to permanent asset whilst ensuring project deliverables meet operations expectations in terms of safety, operability, reliability, and maintainability over the facility design life cycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or science majoring in engineering in specialization.
• Eight years’ experience in specialization within oil and gas industry.
• Expert level knowledge in machinery control systems and schemes such as GE, CCC, DCS and DLN tuning.

Key responsibilities

• Provide a variety of machinery control engineering supports (in the areas of GE, CCC, DCS, DLN tuning, etc.) to contribute to the division strategy and goals which includes design reviews, studies, commissioning, start-up, failure analysis and advanced troubleshooting as part of punch list and warranty claim resolutions, and management of change.
• Review, validate and support development of advanced machinery control schemes of machines and its drivers (gas turbine, steam turbine and variable frequency drives for motor) of new projects to achieve high standards of reliability, availability and cyber security.
• Review and develop testing procedures like surge tests, DLN tuning, machine test runs and performance tuning for turbo machinery systems and DCS controls for machinery.
• Support factory acceptance tests and review performance test results of machines. Validate machinery performance with theoretical calculation and compare it to OEM performance maps and actual performance at site.
• Develop plans and work schedules to ensure effective completion of tasks and activities, meeting the section and division KPIs.
• Provide technical input related to area of expertise to other disciplines and functions as per requirements to support overall business objectives with the key focus being around process and machine interactions.
• Control and supervise the activities undertaken by contractors, consultants and service providers.
• Guide less experienced engineers in implementing the company’s integrity and reliability systems.
• Maintain issue register identifying and resolving critical issues including new technology risks (under area of responsibility) which could impact new project reliability, availability and cyber security. Prepare discipline handover packages for operating company following startup.
• Support high risk commissioning activities for high complexities and large-scale projects by
  (a) undertaking stringent system surveillance,
  (b) tuning and optimizing machinery control systems, and
  (c) providing advisory support to operations and maintenance.