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Job Title: Control Engineer (Maintenance)
Job Location: Das Island Contract Hire

Purpose:
Provides DCS and PLC related technical, engineering and troubleshooting support to the Instrument Maintenance Section in order to ensure high reliability of Client plant operation. Also provides in-house training as required.


Scope of Duties:

• Liaises with Operations Division personnel in order to ensure understanding of problems and solutions to the DCS and PLC associated Instrument Systems.

• Assists Instrument Maintenance Engineers in compiling trip reports, making recommendations where necessary, on modifications required to prevent trips re-occurrences.
• Works closely with Instrument Maintenance personnel during equipment test runs, plant upsets, and start-ups. Collect information, compiles reports giving recommendations to ensure equipment reliability and minimize production down time.
• Attends to materials queries from manufactures, Purchasing & Stores Departments. Review and ensures materials and spares stock holdings are adequate for planned and potential work.
• Carry out in-house training of Instrument Maintenance Staff on the DCS and PLC based systems.
• Use own initiative for design and implementation of new Minor DCS and PLC changes.
• Carry out call-out duties outside working hours for the DCS and PLC sections.
• Uses initiatives for DCS and PLC control systems troubleshooting in the Process, Utilities, and Offsite areas of Client Plant, report back his finding with proposals to prevent problems re-occurrences.
• Involves in daily/ weekly meetings with Senior and Lead Instrument Engineers, operations and E&TSD system Engineers are required.
• Follows established policies and professional engineering standards.
• Occasionally undertakes direct field supervision on Vendor Engineers and special work as required.

Minimum Requirements:

• Age 35-45 years.
• B.Sc. in a relevant engineering discipline and preferably a Charter Engineer.
• Extensive specialist experience (minimum 11 years of instrumentation preferably in a maintenance environment at engineer level of particular relevance to the DCS (TDC 3000) and PLC systems in petrochemical Industries.
• Part of this experience could be on the construction, design and commissioning of DCS & PLC projects.
• Good knowledge of spoken and written English, with capability of writing technical reports.
• Remuneration Package:Salary is negotiable.
• Leave cycle 38 working days on Das Island, followed by 25 days of leave to point of origin.
• Round trip economy class air fares to point of origin for each rotation.
• Messing and bachelor accommodation are provided free of charge on the Island.
• Excellent sports/recreation club facilities on the Island.