Job Title: Lead, Instrument and Control Engineer
Location: Nigeria
Description
- At Nestoil, we’re on an evolutionary journey where we’re changing our story. We are looking to hire an experienced Lead, Instrument & Control Engineer to join our diverse team in Neconde Energy Limited.
- In this role, you will be responsible for coordinating instrument and control engineering activities to achieve production optimization with effective and efficient process control systems.
- You will also ensure a holistic approach to process control optimization to achieve sustainable and reliable production operation.
- You will coach and mentor the operations teams in process control, troubleshooting and the basis of control systems technology.
Responsibilities
As a Lead, Instrument & Control Engineer you will:
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- Coordinate instrument and control discipline engineering activities, ensuring accurate and timely communication of needs to meet operations objectives.
- Develop metering solution for the accurate measurement of oil and gas produced at the respective flow stations and the volumes exported- at each gathering station and export terminal. Automate the metering systems at all flow-stations and terminals. (Ugo Ocha, Keremor, Odidi, Jones Creek, Batan and Egwa).
- Proactively identify and resolve in a timely manner all electrical and automation issues trouble shooting, reliability enhancements and efficiency monitoring.
- Integrate the control systems of various equipment and process facilities to ensure that they function as an efficient and reliable integrated system.
- Seek and implement I&C technologies to improve the reliability of Company’s operating systems.
- Influence organizational capability of operations and engineering teams to ensure that proper focus on E&I issues resolutions is active and effective in all fields.
- Review equipment vendors DCS/SIS/F&G designs and execution plans and provide guidance and direction to help achieve the project objectives. Measuring performance and effectiveness.
- Design ICSS, Alarm management, Instrumentation specifications, programming simulation, testing and start-up for major equipment.
- Revamp the PLC and DCS and automate the control systems at the flow-stations.
- Upgrade the Motor Control Center (MCC) and switch gear room at the flow stations (Odidi, Jones Creek and Batan).
- Support operations in preparing for commissioning and start-up of major equipment.
- Serve as a positive team lead and subject matter expert with respect to process control and instrumentation.
Requirements
What are we looking for?
- A Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
- Member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, Corporate Member – Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria.
- Minimum of 12 years instrument and control engineering experience in the oil and gas industry, at least 3 of which must be in a lead or supervisory role.
- Experience in monitoring, maintaining and change management of DCS, SIS and PLCs.
- Strong background and experience in process control hardware and software, PLCs and SIS.
- Ability to train, coach and develop less experienced engineers and operations staff.
- Strong background and experience supporting upstream oil and gas production operation.
- Able to detect and resolve process control issues before they become severe problems.
- Engineering design: Knowledge of capital project execution processes and design engineering: That is, development and interpretation of PFDs, P&IDs, Equipment Instrumentation, etc. and necessary design assurance activities.
- Strong writing communication skills, ability to produce high-quality technical reports and memorandum in a timely manner.
- Strong background and experience with monitoring process control loop performance versus business needs and implementing process control improvements.
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Deadline: February 9, 2023
Job Features
Job Category | Engineering / Technical |