Technician

Job description / Role

Job purpose

Perform preventive, corrective and troubleshooting maintenance, and testing of all plant instrument process monitoring, control protective equipment with applicable procedures and guidelines.

Job specific accountabilities

Instrument & control maintenance

• Carry out routine and preventive maintenance work, repair, and testing of equipment in line with standard operating procedures (SOPs) and standards to fulfil the requirements of the work request or work order.
• Carry out preventive maintenance activities and participate in the assigned plant shutdown activities and ensure timely completion of job activities.
• Verify completed maintenance activities to ensure that the job is performed as per requirement and complete the maintenance activity sheet.
• Carry out inspection and exercise vigilance to identify any developing problem in the area assigned and report any problems.
• Troubleshoot, repair, calibrate, and test various types of process control instruments and relay logic, to keep the instrumentation systems as designed.
• Perform preventive and emergency maintenance on all equipment on site as well as during machine scheduled or unscheduled shutdowns to ensure the availability of all equipment in reliable conditions during running and prevent unforeseen trips.
• Perform field and/or system modifications of control elements and/or control loops as per the plant change requests and assist to update all related plant drawings to reflect the actual changes, thus enhancing the plant operation in line with the management of change procedure.
• Assist in upgrading and retrofitting of new control instruments to the existing panels in the field and main control room as and when required for completion of modifications and the plant change request (PCR) in line with standards.

Minimum qualification

Technical diploma or secondary school certificate with a vocational trade certificate in the relevant field.

Minimum experience, knowledge & skills

Four years of relevant experience in the oil and gas industry.

Revenues / budget: As per approved financial budget
Direct reports: As per organization chart
Indirect reports: As per organization chart

About the Company

We are one of the world's leading energy producers, and a primary catalyst for Abu Dhabi’s growth and diversification.

We operate across the entire hydrocarbon value chain, through a network of fully-integrated businesses, with interests that range from exploration, production, storage, refining and distribution, to the development of a wide-range of petrochemical products.

Since 1971, we have created thousands of jobs, driven the growth of a diverse knowledge-based economy, and played a key role in Abu Dhabi’s global emergence.

Today, we continue to look for new and innovative ways to maximize the value of our resources, pioneering those approaches and technologies that will ensure we are able to meet the demands of an ever-changing energy market, and continue to have a positive impact on the Abu Dhabi economy for generations to come.