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ExxonMobil

Produces oil, gas, fuels and chemical materials

Instrumentation & Controls Engineer

Controls & Automation EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bachelor of Engineering degree from a recognized university in Instrumentation and Controls or Electrical/Electronics.
  • At least 3 years of experience applying instrumentation and controls engineering in oil and gas, refining, or petrochemical projects or operations.
  • At least 3 years of experience selecting, sizing, and applying pressure, temperature, flow, and level instruments, control valves, and shutdown valves.
  • Familiarity with industry standards, country-specific regulations, and local codes.
  • A work permit to work in India.
  • Familiarity with cybersecurity and functional safety in the process industry according to industry standards.

Responsibilities

  • Provide troubleshooting and reliability improvements for upstream, midstream, and downstream business units and manufacturing facilities to maintain safety, availability, and reliability of instrumentation systems while optimizing cost.
  • Develop and execute instrument surveillance programs.
  • Collect data using computer maintenance management systems or other available data sources.
  • Analyze maintenance records to determine instrument failure rates, availability and reliability calculations, bad-actor and failure-mode identification, and program effectiveness and cost analysis.
  • Integrate maintenance and process data to develop a holistic understanding of instrument and process-control performance.
  • Use risk-based work-selection techniques to identify and justify maintenance and improvement items for annual and periodic maintenance plans and events.
  • Coordinate, monitor, and handle discipline design and engineering with the engineering, procurement, and construction contractor, completing work within the project timeframe.
  • Review and approve engineering, procurement, and construction contractor work and ensure compliance with project specifications, relevant codes and standards, industry best practices, and contractual review periods.
  • Guide less experienced engineers on standards, worksheets, design calculations, software, requisitions, technical bid evaluations, and technical queries.
  • Participate in developing and maintaining global procedures, software, and standards.
  • Attend instrumentation and controls equipment factory acceptance tests as required.
  • Participate in hazard and operability (HAZOP), safety integrity level (SIL), and classification studies as required.
  • Assist in closing out HAZOP action items.
  • Provide construction, pre-commissioning, commissioning, and turnaround (shutdown) support as required.
  • Develop equipment strategies and maintenance plans for instrumentation and control systems, considering SIL assessment, verification industry standards, regulatory requirements, and manufacturer recommendations; support functional safety assessment and management studies.
  • Review, update, and develop instrumentation and controls technical documentation and drawings, including piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), cause and effect, and control narratives.
  • Execute control system and safety instrumented system (SIS) and programmable logic controller (PLC) lifecycle management programs, including system inventory, obsolescence plans, spare-parts management, and upgrade or replacement planning.
  • Support control system and SIS/PLC maintenance and test planning, software upgrades, emergency shutdown (ESD) testing, offline and online testing, and coordination of activities with or without plant shutdowns.
  • Create and support management of change (MoC) activities for instrumentation and controls scope.
  • Apply a basic understanding of cybersecurity requirements for control systems according to industry standards.

Desired Qualifications

  • Demonstrated experience selecting, applying, and specifying data sheets for field hardware, including pressure, temperature, flow, and level instruments, control valves, and shutdown valves.
  • Experience preparing specifications and selecting, applying, configuring, or programming safety instrumented systems.
  • Understanding of how equipment sparing, redundancy, reliability, availability, maintainability, and maintenance cost affect operational excellence and capital efficiency.
  • Working knowledge of complex instrument systems, such as machinery control systems, vibration monitoring systems, custody transfer metering, fired-heater burner management, and tank gauging systems.
  • Ability to review, evaluate, and update cause-and-effect diagrams, piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), logic and architecture diagrams, and control narratives.
  • Proficiency in data collection and analysis using common database and data-analysis software tools such as SAP, Excel analytics, and Tableau.
  • Certification in functional safety from a recognized institution.
  • Certification in cybersecurity according to an industry standard from a recognized institution.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.

About the Company

ExxonMobil

Produces oil, gas, fuels and chemical materials

ExxonMobil produces oil and natural gas and manufactures fuels, lubricants, and chemicals for transport operators, industrial customers, and consumers around the world. Its businesses span resource exploration and production, refineries that turn crude oil into fuels, and plants that make plastics and other chemical materials. The company sells products through wholesale supply agreements and the Exxon, Esso, and Mobil brands, including motor oils for vehicles and machinery. It also sells services that capture, transport, and store industrial carbon dioxide underground. The merged company formed in 1999 from Exxon and Mobil, with roots in earlier oil businesses, and is headquartered in Spring, Texas.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Spring, TX
Founded
1999

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