CONTROLS AND INSTRUMENTATION LEAD

Job Description

Requirements

• Good understanding of the relevant health and safety regulations and quality standards.
• Knowledge in system dynamics & process controls.
• Understanding of process plant unit operations sufficient to develop and challenge control philosophies, alarm strategies and safe operating envelopes for those units..
• Preparation and review of instrument datasheets, loop and hook-up drawings, sizing calculations, control system architecture and panel design
• Excellent Stakeholder Management Skills.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Process safety practice - HAZOP, LOPA and SIL determination, and safe execution of factory and site acceptance testing

Responsibilities

• Provide input to scope and design of assigned projects and identify Front-End
• Engineering & Design (FEED) and implementation deliverables necessary for the control and instrumentation scope of the project.
• Participate in the implementation of instrument detail design on P&IDs.
• Review instrumentation and control deliverables such as instrument datasheets, instrument index, sizing calculations, cause and effect diagrams, control narratives, functional checkouts, control system architecture, & control panel design.
• Participate in the selection and specification of process instruments and electronic transmitters for pressure, temperature, flow, position, composition analyzers, etc.
• Review and perform technical evaluations on documentation for instrumentations and controls requisitions.
• Support Process Hazard Analysis and other process safety assessment, evaluation, and design sessions.
• Provide inputs in project-driven scoping, specification, and configuration of process control (DCS, ESD, valves) and Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS), including Fire & Gas systems
• Participate in the Factory and Site Acceptance Tests for controls equipment.
• Prepare and implement inspection and maintenance schedules of the control equipment and instrument installations, in accordance with the manufacturer’s
• specifications.
• Undertake any other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time by the supervisor(s).