Senior Instrument Engineer
Job Description
Provides leadership and technical support to operations, maintenance, and capital project groups to ensure improvements in instrument reliability and to resolve repetitive instrument-related problems. Plans and directs work, provides technical training, establishes goals and objectives and sets priorities.
Responsibilities
- Able to provide technical support to Instrument Maintenance Section, identifying the bad actors, recommend and implement long term solutions.
- Develop appropriate solutions to maintenance problems, using new or existing technologies, through innovation, creativity, and change.
- Study current practices and recommend optimum solutions in line with industry’s best practices to meet specific requirements for existing instrumentation and control systems.
- Develop standard documentation and specifications in line with the latest international standards.
- Maintain active dialogue with section and department heads and other managerial and supervisory staff with respect to effective maintenance of the instrumentation and control equipment and systems. Seek out opportunities for teamwork to improve the business and develops these with the help of the section head.
- Provide a successful, timely, and safe and cost – effective Instrument Maintenance service for all instrumentation and control equipment and systems under his area of responsibility.
- Monitor workload, team’s activities, and resources to ensure adequate resources are always available to implement the activities of the team and maintain reasonable backlog.
- Proficiency in Yokogawa Distributed Control Systems (DCS) and ESD systems.
- Strong background in field instrumentation and Analyzer instruments
- Familiarity with various PLC systems
- Focus on reliability-centered maintenance to ensure system efficiency and longevity.
- Proven track record in troubleshooting and resolving complex instrumentation issues.
- Skilled in overseeing calibration and testing of instruments for accuracy.
- Ability to lead root cause analysis investigations for equipment failure.