Senior Control Engineer / Aberdeen

The client is currently recruiting for the position of Senior Controls Engineer, based in Aberdeen.

Responsibilities:

SECE, Verification & Assurance
* Ensure work is carried out in accordance with the approved procedures and in accordance with the performance standard requirements and OIAVS.
* Continuously maintain the means of assurance activities required to achieve and maintain the performance standards for safety critical equipment over the asset life cycle especially onsite DCS/ICSS and PLCs.
* Provide necessary input to derogation justification requests against GS EP EXP 407 for discipline TA review / approval
* Participate in safety studies/HAZOPS /HAZID / ORA / SARA / SIL assessment
* If appointed provide necessary input to DCS/ICSS/PLC related projects.
* If appointed Act as asset cyber security focal and appoint offshore focal to meet affiliate policy for IS industrial systems
* Provide support to asset activities related to discipline to ensure that affiliate procedures and company referential is met

Budget
* Provide input to the annual discipline budget based on planned activities and historical emergent work.
* Provide necessary input to contract negotiation
* Meet the requirements of the cost control process within discipline budget for routine and non-routine jobs and modifications.
* Provide justification for breaking in any exceptional activities to the annual budget
* Approval of new material requisitions through the Company tools.
* Carry out periodic review of inventory levels along with inventory team to ensure they are optimised to reflect critical spares requirements and consumables meeting rate or consumption, ensure that a review of spares against criticality is carried out periodically to mitigate risks from single point failures.

Contract Management
* Provide technical input to contract tenders and negotiations relating to maintenance services.
* Identify opportunities to improve contractor/supplier performance, reduce costs and improve the quality of services/products supplied.

Maintenance Engineering
* Contribute to the development of strategies for the maintenance and operation of plant/equipment to ensure that all plant and equipment meets continued assurance, verification and compliance requirements (e.g. IEC61511, IEC61508, etc), in accordance with the company maintenance philosophy.
* Apply LEAN process to optimise maintenance in accordance with the company's minimum maintenance guidelines.
* Ensure that the condition/diagnostic monitoring equipment is being utilised effectively to reduce periodic intrusive maintenance to meet the requirements of the company's condition monitoring strategy
* Develop preventive maintenance base of diagnostic tools/systems currently on all assets.
* Issue and review the required PM master data changes to optimise the preventive maintenance activity.
* Ensure all relevant maintenance procedures and documentation are maintained in an accurate and current status and are available on request.
* Report maintenance, integrity and inspection KPI's that drives Asset improvement for maintenance work management
* Where appropriate provide input to justification for derogation requests against GS EP EXP 213 for discipline métier review / approval

Technical
* Works within a team of multi-discipline engineers, providing work/project progress, agreeing priorities and time schedule.
* Provide specialist technical/engineering advice and guidance to tier 1 and offshore personnel on the operation and maintenance of plant/equipment ensuring highest safety standards, a timely response to technical engineering queries and minimal disruption to operations.
* Ensure that incidents are investigated and action incident close-outs as appropriate. Provide technical input to RCA process and ownership of actions that prevent recurrence.
* Conduct ad-hoc technical surveys on site/offshore and at vendor/repair locations, providing detailed technical reports identifying problems and solutions and ensuring technical standard compliant by contractors.
* Verify that maintenance strategies being executed are optimal for cost and reliability to meet the Asset availability targets as per the RAM and production efficiency targets
* Ensure that maintenance activities are appropriately prioritised within operations maintenance plans.
* Prepare/Review scopes of work and economic justification for facility modifications, ensuring they are correctly engineered, documented, executed and closed out with new asset maintenance added to SAP in accordance with statutory/Company standards.
* Review to vendor documents (e.g. functional specification, design specification, proposal, FAT/SAT procedure, etc) to ensure all essential technical standards are followed.
* Take ownership of maintenance activities that are complex in nature as a result of having high expenditure, being technically challenging or deemed a high risk to the business.
* Investigate more complex control system related challenges as member of multi-discipline teams that may include the support of DSO product line, discipline métiers and external industry expertise.
* Member or Emergency Response Team as required



Experience & Qualifications:
* Degree in Engineering/Technical Discipline.
* Significant engineering experience in the oil & gas industry, including offshore/site experience.
* Chartered Engineer status
* Detailed knowledge of legislation/regulations relevant to discipline.
* Significant knowledge of offshore/terminal plant and equipment and maintenance systems.
* Recognised level of Company expertise in technical discipline.


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