Senior Instrument Designer

SUMMARY:

Senior Instrument Designer (Contract) with extensive experience in the Oil & Gas, Petrochemical or similar sector

POSITION INFO:

Job Objective:

• Technical Design Ability - Guides and coaches others to achieve a high standard in technical design using company, client and industry standards and data in line with Project requirements.
• Technical Expertise - Demonstrates an on-going ability and interest to improve technically, maintaining current technical knowledge and cultivating relationships with technology providers. Responsible for checking models and deliverables. Provides support to Chief Engineers and feedback.
• Cross Discipline Project Team Interaction - Proactively works with other discipline designers/engineers. Working with lead engineer and other discipline leads at project meetings, internal/external and client resolving issues.
• Understanding and meeting Schedule and Schedule dependencies - Accountable for deliverable production to suit project schedule.
• Commercial Awareness and Customer Focus - Demonstrates increasing customer (client) focus, be aware of and responsive to customer (client) needs without sacrificing the project and Corporate objectives.
• Interpretation of Engineering Requirements - Takes responsibility for quality of the interpretation. Initiates design solutions.

• Produce and approve air distribution schedules and indicate positions of air manifolds on plot plans for drafting by the CAD operator.
• Design, review and approve the instrument cable block diagrams for drafting by the CAD Operator.
• Produce a cable drum schedule.
• Produce the design guidelines for the cable racking / routing drawings for drafting by CAD Operator. Review and approve the resultant drawings and model representation.
• Produce a cable schedule from the cable block diagram and project specifications / standards.
• Produce, review and approve sketches for control room and equipment room layouts for drafting by the CAD Operator.
• Develop the instrument design index based on EFD’s and Instrument Index.
• Produce hand sketches of earthing philosophy diagrams, based on engineering input for drafting by CAD Operator.
• Using the instrument database and project specifications / standards, produce guidelines for the instrument hook-up drawings which are then generated by CAD Operator.
• Using the instrument database and project specifications / standards, produce guidelines for the instrument installation detail drawings.
• Produce, review and approve instrument location drawings based on the instrument database, EFD’s and plant layout drawings.
• Develop / provide input on the 3D Model to clarify instrument requirements on the model inclusive of cable racking, junction boxes, air headers and field instrument placements.
• Produce, review and approve instrument loop diagrams and termination schedules utilising the In-Tools database.
• Produce hand drawn power distribution diagrams for backdrafting by CAD Operator.
• Provide hand drawn mark-ups for CAD Operator to generate panel layout detail drawings.
• Incorporate instrument supplier data received into instrument design database, termination schedules and loop diagrams.
• Provide mark-ups on mechanical / instrumentation interface drawings for backdrafting.
• Provide mark-ups on electrical / instrumentation interface drawings for backdrafting.
• Maintain the instrument design database and drawing register in a current project state.
• Produce enquiry requisitions for instrument cable and junction boxes.
• Assist in the preparation of the Instrument contract indirect BOM.
• Perform equipment, panel and cable inspections.
• Liaise with engineers to ensure design intent is implemented.
• Liaise closely with CAD Operator for the creation and validation of instrument design drawings.
• Resolve site queries relative to the instrument design, obtain redline markups and backdraft documents to As-built status.
• Assist in the preparation of Instrument ‘End of Job’ documentation.
• Perform any other duties assigned within reason by the Principle Designer / Chief Instrument Engineer.

• In-Tools 6.0 or Higher
• Smart Plant Review
• Microsoft Packages
• 5 Years minimum experience

• Initiative - Grasps new or unfamiliar concepts quickly and can effectively deal with complexity and ambiguity. Identifies issues in a constructive manner and recommends solutions. Uses innovative and novel approaches to find solutions
• Change and Adaptability - Gains awareness for, and an understanding of, the position of stakeholders. Readily adapts to changing circumstances
• Interpersonal Communications - Actively listens and seeks to understand others’ points of view. Communicates openly and honestly to all levels of the organization.  Expresses ideas and exchanges information clearly and persuasively
• Problem Solving - Grasps new or unfamiliar concepts quickly and can effectively deal with complexity and ambiguity. Identifies issues in a constructive manner and recommends solutions.  Uses innovative and novel approaches to find solutions
• Planning, Organising & Execution Prioritizes and plans work activities. Uses time efficientlyti networking ability.

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