Instrumentation & Controls Engineer
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Mid
Bachelor's
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
In Person
Electrical EngineeringControls & Automation Engineering
About the job
Requirements
- A Bachelor of Engineering degree from a recognized university in Instrumentation and Controls or Electrical/Electronics is required.
- A minimum of 3 years of experience applying instrumentation and controls engineering in the oil and gas, refining, or petrochemical industry, in projects or operations, is required.
- A minimum of 3 years of experience selecting, sizing, and applying pressure, temperature, flow, and level instruments, control valves, and shutdown valves is required.
- Familiarity with industry standards, country-specific regulations, and local codes is required.
- A work permit to work in India is required.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity and functional safety in the process industry, in accordance with industry standards, is required.
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, calculate availability and reliability, identify bad actors and failure modes, and assess program effectiveness and cost.
- 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 inclusion in annual and periodic maintenance plans and events.
- Coordinate, monitor, and handle discipline design and engineering with the EPC contractor, completing the work within the project timeframe.
- Review and approve EPC contractor work and ensure compliance with project specifications, relevant codes and standards, best industry 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, safety integrity level, and classification studies as required.
- Assist in closing out hazard and operability study 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 safety integrity level assessments, 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, cause and effect, and control narratives.
- Execute control system and safety instrumented system / programmable logic controller lifecycle management programs, including system inventory, obsolescence plans, spare-parts management, and upgrade and replacement planning.
- Support control system and safety instrumented system / programmable logic controller maintenance and test planning, software upgrades, emergency shutdown testing, offline and online testing, and coordination of activities with or without plant shutdowns.
- Create and support Management of Change activities for instrumentation and controls scope.
- Apply a basic understanding of cybersecurity requirements for control systems in accordance with industry standards.
Desired Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience selecting, applying, and preparing data sheet specifications for field hardware, including pressure, temperature, flow, and level instruments, control valves, and shutdown valves.
- Experience preparing specifications and selecting, applying, configuring, and programming safety instrumented systems.
- Understanding the impact of equipment sparing, redundancy, reliability, availability, maintainability, and maintenance cost in support of operations 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, piping and instrumentation diagrams, logic and architecture diagrams, and control narratives.
- Proficiency in data collection and analysis using common databases and software data-analysis tools such as SAP, Excel analytics, and Tableau.
- Certification in functional safety from a recognized institution.
- Certification in cybersecurity, in accordance with industry standards, from a recognized institution.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
About the company
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
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Irving, Texas
Founded
1999
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Competitive compensation
- Medical plans
- Maternity Leave
- Retirement benefits
- Annual vacations & holidays
- Day care assistance program
- Training and development program
- Tuition assistance program
- Workplace flexibility policy