Position Responsibilities:

•    Operates plant according to established procedures, including starting-up and shutdown of the plant by controlling the required levels, flow rates, pressure and temperature

•    Resets after acknowledging all alarms and shut down failures

•    Controlling / adjusting the system to minimize downtime and contribute to the achievement of production targets (within work scope and equipment availability / capability constraints)

•    Monitoring plant isolations and coordinating isolation de-isolation activities. Verify if all the DCS inhibits are justified.

•    Maintaining an overall safe status for the plant and systems

•    Ensuring that any detection or protection system, over rides or inhibits are recorded in writing in accordance with the required procedure and that plant is only operated within the dispensation period allocated to any operational deviations

•    Prepares the plant for maintenance as per the established procedures

•    Participate at the start-up of new installation or modification, giving eventual punch list on the DCS links

•    Maintaining communications (informative and directive) with key people on the asset and third parties off the plant to achieve safe and productive co-ordination of activities

•    Maintaining an overview of the permit to work system and all activities in progress

•    Performing shift and rotation handover according to the required standard and procedures

•    Controlling critical situations and establishing appropriate communications and directing / performing initial actions in response to emergencies

•    Preparing production reports

•    Mentor and support panel operators

•    Control plant operations to ensure production are within specified targets and products are controlled to specification. Understand the correct application and authorization of overrides, inhibits and forces that prevent system design fail safe response.

•    Recommend training and development interventions for team members to build their capabilities.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

•    Diploma in chemical or Petroleum engineering, or any technical discipline.

Minimum Experience: 

•    Minimum of 10+ years of experience in the Oil and Gas Upstream production facilities

Job-Specific Skills: 

•    Knowledge of production processes, quality assurance, health & safety, preventative/predictive maintenance systems and techniques

•    Understand, analyze and describe the physical constraints applicable to well/reservoir/field production

•    Knowledge in international safety standards 

•    Communication skills

•    Decision making skills 

•    Problem solving skills 

•    Organizing and Planning skills

•    Team work

•    Capable to work in H2S environment and in other potentially challenging environment

•    Honeywell C300 DCS or similar DCS. 

•    Familiar with Gas Sweetening process, Gas dehydration, Hot Oil Heaters, Pumps, Compressors, Contactors, Refrigeration

•    Mechanical and Instrument knowledge will be an added advantage