Plant Control and Instrumentation Engineer – Hay Level 14/C3 (Internal/External Advert) (North West) needed at NECSA

Job Profile: 

• Serve as the primary interface between Operations, Maintenance, Facilities, and Engineering to ensure that critical and high priority assets are designed, operated, installed, and maintained in a way that meets all applicable codes and standards to ensure maximum reliability, equipment availability, and minimal life cycle cost.

Key Performance Areas:                     

• Provide Control and Instrumentation engineering support to achieve production goals and objectives.
• Maintain advanced process control strategies to optimize plant operations, improve process safety, and enhance product quality.
• Collaborate with operations, instrumentation, maintenance and process engineering teams to identify opportunities for process and system optimization.
• Collaborates with other engineers to develop accurate, efficient equipment and instrumentation in accordance with safety and usability standards and client expectations.
• Oversees the implementation of new measuring devices and control systems, ensuring devices are correctly installed and properly tested.
• Optimise and oversee the efficiency, reliability, and safety of the plant’s operational processes.
• Implement, and maintain advanced process control strategies for various process units to improve operational efficiency.
• Ensure process control systems are compliant with industry standards and company guidelines.
• Analyse plant data to determine control performance, identify issues, and recommend solutions.
• Drafts and presents formal technical documents, reports, and testing results to manager for approval.
• Drafts technical manuals for instrumentation.
• Manage and coordinate process improvement activities to achieve production, safety and efficiency goals.
• Prepare and submit regulatory reports as required.
• Identify and analyse equipment or machinery failures and takes corrective actions.
• Design and implement equipment modifications to help improve safety and reliability.
• Outage Scope Verification and Aging Analysis.
• Manage and execute assigned projects in accordance with policies and performance targets.
• Participate and lead multidisciplinary teams in support of site initiatives.
• Manage implementation of assigned projects to successfully meet scope, schedule and cost.
• Deliver engineering solutions to operations that improve yield, cost and productivity.
• Incorporate the approved design processes and safety, licensing and SHEQ-INS requirements into products/output to ensure compliance with the design control plan and applicable regulations and stakeholder requirements.
• Contribute to Design Reviews and update design accordingly.
• Contribute to Hazard and Operability Studies and update design accordingly.
• Undertake problem solving and optimisation across Necsa and subsidiaries relating to chemical/process engineering aspects in process plants, (e.g. product purity, equipment malfunctioning, etc.) on an ad-hoc basis/ as requested with limited specialized guidance
• Perform and document economic and technical feasibility studies for process improvements.
• Conduct research and analysis to ensure recommendation of optimal and effective solutions to control and instrumentation engineering problems.
• Coordinates work performed by outside contractors, vendors, and engineering consultants.
• Provides training related to devices to employees and/or customers.
• Develop Work methods & techniques.
• Develop Policies & Procedures.
• Introduce innovative approaches, systems and processes within the Engineering Framework.

Requirements
JOB REQUIREMENTS

KEY KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Sound knowledge of the systems acquisition process, from plant design to commissioning.
• Knowledge of process engineering and ability to perform control and instrumentation engineering design calculations (mass and energy balance, unit operations sizing, pressure drop calculations, etc.) and specifications.
• Sound knowledge of chemical unit operations and design of units and SSCs.
• General knowledge of all other engineering disciplines.
• Ability to apply recommended Engineering Standards for specific applications.
• Ability to perform work of medium to complex nature accurately and promptly, without supervision.
• Computer literacy and ability to learn to use new advanced engineering software as required.
• Self-training to attain new skills and knowledge when required.
• Be physically and mentally fit to work in nuclear and processing facilities (e.g. be registered as radiation and chemical workers when required).

COMPETENCIES

• Analytical Thinking & Attention to Detail
• Problem Solving
• Creativity / Innovation
• Time & Self-Management
• Drive (Results Orientation)
• Relationship Building
• Customer Service Orientation
• Effective communication
• Efficient and concise writing skills
• Ability to identify scope of work and deliver focused output to address the scope and solve the essence of problems
• Ability to solve problems
• Safety Orientations
• Technical / Professional Competence
• Knowledge Sharing
• Teamwork

Qualifications and Experience:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree (B.Eng/ BSc.Eng) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Experience:

• 1 years’ experience in a process engineering environment or completed GIT program.