Role Summary
Professional/Technical role. This is the fully competent position for the Instrument & Electrical Engineer within the Facilities Engineering Team. An experienced professional applying proficient instrumentation and electrical engineering knowledge of the job area typically obtained through a combination of advanced education and relevant industrial work experience.
Key accountabilities
- Performing engineering review of proposed new equipment designs to assess statutory compliance, code compliance, operability, reliability, ease of maintenance, and availability of replacement parts. Designing, participating, directly supervising, inspecting, and guiding the installation and commissioning of new equipment
- Supervising, commissioning, reviewing, and guiding the physical installation of Instrumentation and Electrical systems in any area of the Company operations and offices
- Participate in the investigation and analysis of Instrumentation and Electrical topics for the purposes of root cause analysis, reliability, maintenance, operability, and commercial drivers
Incumbent specific accountabilities
- Authors and reviews Scopes of Work and Technical Specifications for tenders, service orders and activities for both routine operations and company projects. This may be entire scopes of work and/or sections relevant to Instrument and/or Electrical
- Act as technical resource for Production and Maintenance Teams to provide assistance with resolution of topics with both existing and proposed equipment. Independently capable to research and find solutions, including involvement of vendors, original equipment suppliers or higher engineering skill sets as required
- Performs inspections, design reviews and guidance as appropriate to both Company and vendor supplied or proposed equipment. Perform technical investigation & root cause analysis to enhance Company safety, reliability, and operability
- Immediate familiarity with IEC electrical standards (including Hazardous Area) and statutory requirements for electrical installations in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Basic familiarity with equivalent international electrical standards e.g. NEMA, BS, CENELEC, ISO.
- Competence in understanding, specifying, and reviewing both pneumatic and hydraulic instrumentation and controls. Assists in planning shutdowns and major equipment turnarounds. Assists in maintenance planning
- Provides instruction and guidance to less experienced personnel, both engineering and technician level, ensuring the successful execution of projects and operations safely and efficiently. Observes, reinforces, and follows all safety rules, technical standards and procedures
Minimum Educational and Professional Requirement:
- Degree in Electrical Engineering or an appropriate related discipline required
- Has clear verbal and written skills in English with a minimum of the CEFR: LEVEL-B2. Experience in Oil & Gas or relevant industrial environment
- Typically, over 3 years of relevant experience
- Computer literate with moderate skills in spreadsheet, email and word processing
Job context
Level of Skill & Knowledge:
- Highly skilled with high level of proficiency. Fully competent in own specific area, able to share own expertise with others
- Independent contributor. May guide developing professionals within own area of expertise
- Under general supervision, works closely with senior peers. Usually, technical guidance is available to review work programs and advise on unusual features of assignment. Some latitude for independent judgement and decision making within defined guidelines
Behavioral Competencies:
- Management Challenge – Individual contributors who plan and organize their work, manage smaller projects or supervisors of staff whose tasks are broadly similar, establishing and delivering team objectives. Allocates routine tasks where the result is clear and precedents available; checks back regularly on progress. May empower the necessary resources, including the coordination of homogenous teams
- Teamwork - Takes overall responsibility for the achievement of own team’s goals and identifies the skill gaps and opportunities for the team to improve its effectiveness, coaching individual members of the team to improve their contribution
- Relationship Management - Monitors current service levels to ensure agreed standards are consistently delivered. Identifies trends and forecasts future customer needs, recommends and implements changes to continually improve the customer offering. “Customers” may be both internal and external and are not typically immediate colleagues
- Communication & Influence - Selects, interprets, and communicates information, tailoring it to the audience, using their understanding of the other parties to influence and negotiate
- Problem-solving - Has the freedom to respond to different situations, considering a range of possible options within the overall organizational policy to determine what the right solution should be
- Accountability and Decision Making - Operates in a role subject to official policies, regulations, and procedures but with some freedom to act within prescribed guidelines and where decisions are likely to impact other areas within the organization
- Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities - Uses depth of organizational and professional knowledge to determine how procedures should change to meet the future requirements of their area (typically gained through several years relevant experience)
- Change & Innovation - Introduces, conveys and implements new ideas and ways of working to achieve benefits across their area of responsibility. Seeks areas for change and is able to convey the rationale for change to others
Intermediate level of budget knowledge but with no signing authority. May be tasked with gathering, verifying, and compiling a variety of narrative information and data needed in the formulation, analysis and presentation of the departmental or project budget. May work on reports designed to give a rudimentary understanding of project economics.
*Only applicants meeting the strict criteria outlined above will be contacted as part of the shortlisting process.