Instrumentation Engineer job at NFT Consult Ltd

Instrumentation Engineer job at NFT Consult Ltd

Job Title: Instrumentation Engineer
Reports To: N+1 Maintenance Engineer and N+2 Head of Maintenance and Inspection Engineer
Duty station: Kampala with frequent travel to Ugandan EACOP sites.

Client brief:
The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) Project involves the construction and operation of a buried, cross-border pipeline to transport crude oil from the Lake Albert area in Uganda to the eastern coast of Tanzania for export to international markets. The pipeline will run from Kabaale in Hoima District, Uganda, to Chongoleani, Tanga Region, in Tanzania. The length of the pipeline is 1,443 kilometres (km) of which 296 km will be in Uganda. In Uganda, the pipeline will traverse ten (10) Districts, comprising Hoima, Kikuube, Kakumiro, Kyankwanzi, Mubende, Gomba, Sembabule, Lwengo, Rakai, and Kyotera.

Position Summary:
The job holder assists and supports, within the Field Operation team for all the maintenance and inspection activities related to the ICSS (Integrated Control and Safety Systems), Instrumentation and Telecoms of the PS1 perimeters EACOP facilities.
She/he is responsible for all aspects related to ICSS and Instrumentation during the maintenance and inspection engineering phase and shall bring assistance on this subject as and when required.

Duties and Responsibilities:
In the context of teamwork and in the field of maintenance:
• Shares and provides reliability analysis, Optimization, and availability of equipment in line with the production objectives.

• Prepare and manage Contract technical need for the Maintenance contract team to implement on time in line with operation readiness planning.
• Defines maintenance policies and ensures international rules and standards followed according to his disciplines.

• Participates and update REX and recommendation for future contract as EACOP strategy.

• Participates to contractor and subcontractor audit.
• Reviews/manages instrument technician at PS1.
• Regular site visits.
• Adequate maintenance plans for related equipment and evidence of execution via CMMS
• Adequate material replenishment plans and effective liaison with C&P to always ensure required stock levels.
• Effective execution of assigned contracts
• Interfaces with feeders’ companies and authorities.
Management:
• Ensures Instrumentations, ICSS, Metering and Telecom Support team cover the obligations in term of maintenance strategy update, performance monitoring, contract, and stock strategy. Define priorities to focus on delivering values matching with Field Operations Objectives.
• Produce, review guidance documents, procedure, standard related to his perimeter.
• Manage PS1 perimeter IMS system and data.
• Manage PS1 instrument technician and provide performance feedback.
• Interfaces with feeder Companies regarding shared systems.
• metering, ICSS major maintenance & Update.
• Ensures implementation of operation and maintenance strategy based on FO objectives. Ensure management system is up to date and in line with the Area performance objectives. Recover any REX from Area and analyse KPI to set-up maintenance strategy accordingly.
• Assess and audit CONTRACTOR procedure managing material repair in workshop are well implemented to secure reliable tracking system, follow-up, and progress.

• Ensures CONTRACTOR stock management by technology in line with criticality study, capability to repair and availability objective.
• Optimization: Review and challenge CONTRACTOR maintenance plan on instrumentation and ICSS and do proposal to reduce downtime and cost to optimize cost VS running hours.

• Secures life cycle management of equipment / packages; implement studies and action plan to secure maintainability of the plants (obsolescence).
• Responsible for implementing and sustaining all cybersecurity solutions to guard industrial network against cyber-attacks.

• PI system Administrator for Field Operations. Manages PI sustenance and development to adequately cover rotating equipment, metering, and other requirements.
• OPEX: Cooperate in terms of budget preparation for studies, ISS and modifications related to service.
• Ensures periodic reporting activities of the discipline and regular follow up and review thereof.
Operations:
• Advice the diagnosis related to major malfunctions and failures. Comments Contractor action plan and assess CONTRACTOR competencies and process to solve major malfunctions and failures. Support CONTRACTOR if required.
• Organizes and maintain instrument equipment database. Guarantee the quality of activity reporting, particularly though CMMS.

• Reliability: Responsible of COMPANY reporting regarding reliability improvement as a continuous practice to maximise plant availability; identify improvement opportunities in organization, facilities availability, and technical costs; represent progress in reliability meeting. Interface with operation team to collect information, or control issues.
• Follows KPI’s defined and attend/prepare for meetings; update dashboard upon requirement, provide action plan for reliability meeting…
• Develops positive and constructive relationships with contractors and suppliers. Identify opportunities to improve contractor/supplier performance, reduce costs and improve the quality of services/products supplied.
• Acts as technical discipline focal point on specific project/work scopes and contracts, taking a lead role in the involvement/co-ordination of, and interface between, site/ teams/contractors ensuring effective communication and understanding between appropriate parties.
Engineering Studies:
• Proposes solutions to optimize the operating cost.
• Consolidate ICSS, Metering, Telecom & Instrumentation part of Software Modification workflow issued by site dealing with ICSS and instrument discipline.

Experience, Skills, and Qualifications:
• Engineering Bsc +5 level with specialization in ICSS or Instrumentation, or equivalent proven experience (Engineer)
• Industrial information security system training
• Experience in instrument, telecom and ICSS maintenance and management (over 10 years), competence in cyber security, oil/Electric/production/terminal knowledge …
• Experience in industrial maintenance (over 8 years) and maintenance methods.
• Experience in team/contract management.
• Very good knowledge of Instrumentation and Fundamentals of Legal Metrology in metering of petroleum products.
• Reliability, autonomy, analytical, organizational capacity, and leadership
• Sense of method, flavor analysis, rigor, and organizational skills
• Proficiency in English, both spoken and written.

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