Qualification & Experience Requirements:
- Bachelor in Engineering degree and minimum 7 years relevant engineering, maintenance and/or operations
experience;
- Significant field experience gathered from any of the following are required:
- Control & Automation (incl. Instrumentation) vendors or contractors
- Process industry
▪ Oil & gas facilities
▪ Refinery
- Chemical and Petrochemical Plants
- Proven track record in a Technical Authority role covering all aspects of C&A and Instrumentation disciplines.
- Experience in driving business improvement in engineering, key words being: technology, fit-for-purpose solutions
and cost effectiveness
- Experience in staff development, training, coaching or mentoring
Required Competences:
- Must be a self-starter, highly motivated technical leader with a proven track record;
- Good knowledge of International engineering standards, best practices, and systems;
- Knowledge of Process Safeguarding and Fire & Gas systems;
- Knowledge of field instrumentation, integration of third party packages, and base layer control;
- Aware of & familiar with issues surrounding high pressure and high H2S facilities;
- Capable of managing small teams to achieve a well-defined goal;
- Can work with limited direction and can contribute through others;
- Ability to quickly establish relationships to ensure discipline engineering processes and standards are consistently
applied;
- Demonstrable interpersonal & communication skills;
- Energetic person with drive and stamina who is solution-oriented, and who can deal with a multitude of challenging
issues positively;
- Strong English language skills. Knowledge of Russian or Kazakh language is an advantage
Job Accountabilities:
- Assures technical integrity of NCOC installations throughout their life cycle. This includes responsibilities for the Technical Authority 2 (TA2) role for the PACO discipline in the following areas of expertise, if designated:
- Process Automation Systems
- SIS & Safeguarding o Fire and Gas
- Instrumentation o PCD Integrity & Security
- Alarm Management
- TA2 responsibilities include (when designated):
- Ensures all deliverables produced by/for their disciplines as defined in the respective Controls and Assurance Plans (PCAP or ACAL) comply with the approved Codes & Standards.
- Reviews and approves business critical deliverables requiring TA-2 authorization appropriate to their discipline (e.g. those with significant multi-discipline content). - Accepts business critical deliverables developed by the contractor on behalf of NCOC-NV (after having assured compliance).
- Participates in technical verification exercises of contractor deliverables.
- As appropriate, recommends and justifies deviations from the approved Codes & Standards to the TA-1.
- Participates in contract tender evaluations to review contractor technical qualifications (experience, personnel, equipment, etc) for executing scope of work. - Reviews and assesses competency of personnel within their Discipline.
- In coordination with Head of Control & Automation or a TA-1, authorizes the design tools selected for use by NCOC-NV.
- Provides support to manage competencies across NCOC-NV organization within their Discipline.
- Represents Engineering in HAZOPS, SIL, Risk Assessments and other safety reviews
- Leads & participates in Root Cause Analysis and complex Process Safety incident investigations related to discipline
- Promotes Process Safety and shares learnings from Process Safety incidents across the organization
- Provides innovative, fit for purpose solutions for complex problems using, at time, incomplete information
- Contributes new ideas and identifies opportunities to improve efficiency of business processes and to improve value delivery to projects
- Identify, analyze & promote improvement opportunities to optimize equipment capacity & performance
- Provide support in troubleshooting, diagnosis & investigation of discipline related issues and to establish a plan for correction or mitigation
- Reviews operational issues and formulates proposals to improve MTBF and MTTR in a cost effective manner
- Is accountable for exercising appropriate discipline controls for NCOC projects throughout the ORP phases (Identify, Assess, Select, Define, Execute)
- Undertakes tasks and projects of moderate complexity
- Design, engineer, construct and commission modifications and projects to appropriate technical and RoK standards
- Defines the scope of work and progresses contracts for services related to PACO projects, with minimal supervision
- Assists in the management of technical interfaces with contractors and vendors
- Ensures high quality critical as-built documents and drawings related to the discipline for NCOC assets and for all projects
- Develops effective working relationships with relevant disciplines and customers • Acts as role model to promote strong service culture
- Plays a key coaching & mentor role for National staff in the skill pool and frontline technicians.
- Maintains close connection with Atyrau Head Office Engineering Team
- Supports the Head of Control & Automation and participates in development and implementation of strategic vision and decision-making for discipline
- Support the Head of Control & Automation in the managing of team work assignments, work load, work forecasting for planned project work for these projects
- Support the Head of Control & Automation in the managing of local C&A skill pool, including provision of learning and development opportunities for National staff