Instrument Supervisor – Comm & Maint

The client is a prominent global company in the oil and gas industry, focusing on subsea, onshore, offshore, and surface technology. Their goal is to improve the efficiency of the global energy sector. They achieve this by consistently challenging traditional norms and dedicating resources to their workforce of over 32,000 employees, spanning 72 countries and representing 122 nationalities. Our client’s organisation strives to provide an inspirational work environment by addressing some of the most intricate technical and engineering challenges worldwide, working alongside a diverse global team.

Mission

• Ensure safe commissioning, start-up, and maintenance execution of instrumentation and control systems, compliant with HSE rules, legislative regulations, and international standards.
• Set and promote Leadership in Safety attitudes
• Bring leadership and supervision and provide support to team members in terms of technical and individual performance capability
• Be responsible for supporting the closing of any gaps in the competency standards for all team members
   

Responsibilities:

Commissioning Execution:

• Ensures that all activities within his area of responsibilities are done in full compliance with the HSE requirements
• Actively contributes to Safety Walkdown. Prepares incident reports and contributes to investigations
• Approves work permits during his shift as per procedure to enable the execution of scheduled works. Ensures the works are conducted in compliance with approved safety and quality standards
• Identifies, reports and follow up risks within his area of responsibility
• Identifies and control hazards to avoid damage to equipment, personnel and the environment
• Supervises the Pre-Commissioning, Commissioning & Start-up activities according to the approved procedures and issue reports
• Supports the specialists and the Vendors for the execution of the activities
• Coordinates the Technical Room with the Process Area

Maintenance Execution:

• Ensure that the services are carried out in strict compliance with Company and Client current HSE rules
• Plan Preventive and Corrective Maintenance operations (routine and short-term)
• Coordinate all Contractor personnel for the smooth execution of the services

Maintenance planning:

• Anticipate, plan and request the logistical means necessary for smooth maintenance operations, taking into account the various constraints when planning and carrying out operations
• Take part of site coordination meetings
• Ensure the Preparation of Maintenance reports for submission to Company
• Ensure the movement of spare parts according to the requirements of Maintenance operations
• Check and validate all technical reports in CMMS and ensure work history is comprehensively recorded in line with CMMS data quality requirements
• Prepare appropriate reporting, on the progress of maintenance operations and, if necessary, on difficulties encountered
• Ensure the Contractor Personnel complete and record all handovers (daily, weekly and rotation) Technical Support/Methods
• Ensure the appropriateness of the operating and maintenance procedures employed by his crews and, if necessary, suggests improvements
• Ensure coordination between maintenance Operations and Preparation teams
• Keep an up-to-date list of works that cannot be performed except during inspections of machines or shutdown
• Keep files of requests for studies of modifications and improvementsâ–ª Suggest corrective measures if a Maintenance backlog could become unmanageable
• Maintain a permanent anticipation on the potential problems that could occur in the production plant, with close relationship with other sections, in order to prevent non-productive or non-efficient operations

Team Leading:

• Be responsible for own teams on site, specifically:
• Organize the rotation schedules of own teams
• Identify the training needs of his teams and make training requests as appropriate
• Propose all necessary adjustments related to the Nationalization plan
• Propose appraisal and Competence assessment for own staff
• Set expectations, coach and mentor technicians with regards to acceptable attitudes and behaviors

HSE:

• Demonstrate commitment to safety through language, behavior and actions
• Ensure the correct behavior of his teams in accordance with the general safety regulations of the subsidiary and, if needed, take the necessary corrective measures
• Ensure all necessary controls to mitigate risks and/or eliminate hazards
• Performance monitoring via regular observation of working practices, assessing compliance with safe systems of work and work instructions

Qualifications:

• Graduate of Instrumentation Engineering or equivalent Engineering disciplines
• Minimum 10 years related experience in instrumentation as applied to upstream oil field facilities, preferably in a remote desert environment.
• Experience in working with a multi-disciplined, multinational team of professional oil field staff
• General knowledge of PTW systems as applied to oil production facilities.
• Flexible approach to work for the incorporation of unexpected requirements.
• Ability to define/identify and analyze problems.
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge of relevant international standards
• Computer literate, MS Office, MS Project.
• Work Ethics
• Demonstrated ability to work flexible hours to meet customer requirements and available for short-notice travel in support of emergency call-outs at customer sites. Exhibit an ability to work in a high conductive environment