Senior Project Engineer

ABB Energy Industries is enabling safe, smart and sustainable projects and operations for businesses across the oil, gas, chemicals, life sciences, power generation and water sectors. Driving integrated solutions that automate, digitalize and electrify industry we connect our people and technology to help our customers adapt and succeed. With over 50 years domain expertise, we continue to innovate and reshape traditional approaches across the energy sector with our technologies designed to improve operational efficiency, reduce risk, reduce energy consumption and waste. Work model: hybrid #LI-hybrid Your responsibilities: • Acting as a technical lead, approving design deliverables. Reviewing all project documents for conformity, safety, and quality assurance. • Anticipating and solving crucial issues and/or unique conditions. Serving as a specialist in the application of advanced concepts and methods. • Acting as design authority for a particular engineering discipline and completing engineering assignments for that discipline • Collaborating on project installation, commissioning, and site activities, clarifying potential issues, or providing solutions to correct engineering errors. Providing technical support to commissioning and start-up activities • Working with the customer to shape and deliver solutions and seeking customer feedback to drive and deliver improvements. Finalizing ‘Fail-Safe Philosophy’ and other key concepts as part of Kick-off and design freeze meetings. •Participating in project meetings and resolving any outstanding technical issues to meet contractual obligations. • Assisting in preparing proposal/presentation of engineering projects/programs. • Applying Design Thinking / Design for Excellence concepts in projects, including modelling, proto-typing, simulation, and calculations. • Performing Project Peer-Reviews. Utilizing checklists to perform design verification according to applicable standards and engineering guidelines. •Actively contributing and sharing experiences in workshops pertaining to engineering design, tools, and processes. • Coaching engineering colleagues on the translation of conceptual designs to engineering documentation, best practices and lessons learned from past projects. • Developing, selecting, and applying standard techniques, procedures, and tools. Ensuring that engineering activities comply with required safety regulations and contractual requirements. Reporting processes and tools inefficiencies and suggesting ideas for improvements. • Assessing and addressing technical risks and opportunities. Reporting any contract / safety / quality / program / cost issues to Project Manager(s) along with recommendations, for resolution. • Ensuring Bill of Material (BOM) for the project meets contractual obligations; and project gross margin requirements by not generating Project Left-Over Material (PLOM). Identifying and implementing variation requests to support contract claims based on the approval from Project Manager. • Creating work plans and cost estimates for the portfolio of projects in consultation with respective Project Managers and ensuring quality deliverables on time and at targeted cost. • Preparing RFQs to meet contractual requirements and providing technical evaluation of suppliers’ proposals. • Collaborating with the Supply Chain function and the Project Manager(s). • Coordinating and/or participating with Manufacturing and Testing teams to ensure the technical solutions are appropriately manufactured/ staged and tested. • Collaborating and/or participating in project installation, commissioning, and site activities, clarifying potential issues, or providing solutions to correct engineering errors. • Contributing to customer satisfaction by planning and executing service work and projects according to customer order and expectation.

Qualifications for the role

• Engineering Degree
• Overall Networking and cyber security systems understanding, combined with automation systems knowledge.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a similar role
• Experience in Industrial networking and cyber security solutions for control systems preferably having experience with Onshore and/or Offshore Oil and Gas customers like with ADNOC and/or Power & Water sector experience
• Customer interpersonal skills, Communication Skills
• Expertise in designing and implementing Operational Technology (OT) network solutions for Control systems.
• In-depth knowledge of cybersecurity principles, practices, and frameworks, with a focus on OT environments.
• Familiarity with OT-specific cybersecurity standards such as ISA/IEC 62443.
• Experience with firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, and network segmentation in industrial settings.
• Experience in actively working with industrial switches and routers.
• Hands on experience on CISCO Layer 2 and Layer 3 Switches.
• Hands on experience on Level-2 Network Technology like VLAN/VTP/STP/RSTP/MSTP/VRRP/MRP/PRP.
• Experience on MLPS, L3 VPN, L2 VPN.
• Hands on experience on routing Protocol.
• Experience on any Network Monitoring Tool.
• Good Understanding of common OT protocols such as Modbus, IEC104, OPC, IEC61850 etc.
• In-depth knowledge of IP addressing, subnet classes, and subnetting techniques.
• CCNA (R&S/Security) & CCNP (R&S/Security) certifications.
• Knowledge on Control Systems.
• Experience on below or most of below Cybersecurity Solutions: McAfee ePO or similar, ENS Threat Prevention or similar, Application Whitelisting; Industrial Firewall (Tofino, Eagle,) Cisco FTD, FortiGate, Sophos Firewall Backup system (Acronis or similar)
• Fluency in English language

Benefits

• Retirement plan

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