Instrumentation Engineer
WhiteCrow
- Dhahran, Ash Sharqiyah
- US$120,000-140,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Develop refinery and petrochemical unit’s control logic, philosophy, cause and effect
- Participate in petrochemical unit’s process optimization and synergy between refinery and petrochemical
- Review and update refinery and petrochemical redline drawings
- Provide technical support for capital projects involving petrochemical units at various stages of the project life cycle (pre-feasibility, feasibility, Pre-feed, feed basic design, detailed engineering and construction)
- Researching new technologies, regulations, and other factors that may affect business model
- Strong experience in Refinery-Chemicals integration strategies, competitiveness and benchmarking
- Liaison between Project Management and technical disciplines to achieve integration across all project disciplines.
- Ensure scope, risk and interfaces are captured, manage Interfaces between internal and external parties and documented.
- Develop, install, calibrate, service, and troubleshoot a wide variety of electronic and pneumatic instrumentation
- Read and interpret blueprints, schematics, and technical manuals
- Perform complex mathematical calculations to determine the correct size and type of instrument required for each application
- Select and specify the most appropriate instruments and components for each installation
- Install, program, maintain, and repair control systems and associated equipment
- Perform Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT), Site Acceptance Test (SAT), Performance Acceptance Test (PAT), control wiring design, and logic design
- Prepare and review all instrumentation engineering deliverables such as design basis, specification, data sheets, instrument index, I/O schedule, logic diagram, cable / JB schedule, Instrument Datasheets and sparing strategy
- Review and comment on project design documents for pressure, flow, temperature, level and analytical field analyzer, in addition to control valves, MOVs, AOVs, and EIVs.
- Develop and update instrument loops diagrams, as well as PFDs, PIDs, ISDs, ILDs, and Data Sheets.
- Lead the instrumentation design, installation, and commissioning of the wiring, cabling, and grounding systems for instrumentation following Company and international standards.
- Develop and update MAC agreement, DCS, ESD, 3rd party system VMS and CCS
- Provide technical support for petrochemical unit’s operation readiness, pre-commissioning and commissioning including instrument loop check philosophy
- Participation in all project studies such as HAZOP, SIL Study
- Review and understanding of communication protocols like Modbus, FieldBus, TCP and General Process Automation Protocols
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering preferred instrument or electric engineering.
- At least 15 years of experience with a focus in the Refining & Petrochemicals instrument engineering.