Senior Reliability Engineer (Instrumentation)

Job purpose

The jobholder is responsible to provide engineering expertise in leading the instrumentation reliability for Borouge’s plants (B1/B2/B3) and equipment in line with international engineering standards and best practices to enhance the operations’ operability, productivity, quality, and capacity. This role includes developing or updating maintenance strategies, leading or participating in high severity incidents and equipment failures, asset criticality analysis, proactive risk management, performing reliability centred maintenance, end of life management, reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) study of instrumentation system, bad actor management, standardization of best practices, carrying out analysis of equipment performance, failure data and corrective maintenance history; while ensuring that the instrumentation reliability process is established and maintained.

Key accountabilities

Maintenance strategies
- Coordinate and facilitate reliability centred maintenance and instrument protective function analysis to optimize equipment and system maintenance strategies.
- Develop or improve predictive, preventive, and major maintenance programs for plant equipment and systems in his plant or area to improve reliability.

Root cause analysis
- Introduce root cause analysis techniques and facilitate equipment failure investigations.
- Provide guidelines for conducting root cause analysis methodology and software.
- Perform troubleshooting, lead, or participate in root cause analysis and design review on equipment failures to identify corrective actions, modifications or required repairs, and implement innovative technologies as required.

Reliability management system
- Develop and implement the reliability management system for the instrumentation engineering to ensure a structured, consistent, multi-discipline approach to reliability and integrity improvement.
- Assist in the development of a comprehensive maintenance management system for all instrument and control systems.
- Develop and maintain codes of practice and ensure that the standards contained in such codes are thoroughly understood and consistently complied with.
- Establish a reliability, availability, integrity threats database on the common shared server.

Reliability improvement
- Develop reliability, availability, and integrity improvement plans in conjunction with managers and leads in maintenance and maintenance management.
- Participate in the development of engineering and technical solutions to improve reliability performance of systems and equipment.
- Identify the chronic occurrence of equipment failure modes and components. Suggest economical long-term solutions.
- Track and implement the instrumentation reliability recommendations to ensure proper deployment of the targeted improvement.

HSE excellence and compliance
- Identify statutory requirements as per government regulations, ADNOC standards, OEM, suppliers, and international standards to produce procedures, work instructions, and checklists for various activities and requirements.
- Propose improvements in business processes and procedures to reduce risk and improve safety standards of the plant.
- Keep abreast and knowledgeable on updates for health, safety, environment, crisis management, and risk registers for all the performed processes, projects, and activities within the operating zone.
- Promote, communicate, and lead by example all safety-related communications, updates, standards, and any related topics with co-workers and within any interface.
- Contribute to providing timely feedback and recommendations to leverage a risk-free environment to ensure the ultimate goals of a safe workplace.

Qualifications, experience, knowledge & skills

• Bachelor’s degree in instrumentation engineering or equivalent engineering disciplines.
• Fluency in English language, written and oral.
• Minimum of 8 years of total experience in maintenance of petrochemical, oil and gas industry with 4 years working as senior engineer in reliability and troubleshooting.
• Minimum of 5 to 8 years of experience as reliability engineer (instrumentation/control engineer).
• Working experience in maintenance needs, processes, and strategies for equipment and systems in petrochemical and oil and gas industries.
• Working knowledge of HSE policies applicable in chemical and petrochemical industries.
• Knowledge and understanding of planning tools, techniques, philosophy, and processes existing in oil/gas or petrochemical industries.
• Facilitation execution by overcoming barriers and obstacles within complex projects or conditions, and initiating inter-departmental collaboration on projects or methods of operating.

Professional certifications

Preferred to be certified in CMRP, CRE, etc.