Job Description

Controls & Instrumentation Team Leader Location:Aberdeen Status: Full-time Salary: Excellent (including benefits) Responsibilities: Provide day to day control and instrumentation engineering support to offshore production operations. Give technical support for high value production equipment to maximise availability, reliability and minimise operating cost e.g. power generation, gas compression and water injection. Co-ordinate activities of control and instrumentation team to provide continuity and consistency of approach to maintenance issues. Provide guidance on, and manage the Company's reliability assessment program to ensure compliance with the performance standards for safety critical systems. Promote alignment between day to day objectives and strategic aims of company values. Ensure that all activities are carried out in a safe and efficient manner to comply with statutory and company requirements. Provide control and instrumentation engineering input into existing and new assets ensuring operational, certification and verification requirements are complied with. Manage delivery of short-term operational solutions and undertake maintenance investigations, as required. Provide input into strategic studies to optimise maintenance services over Life of Field. Co-ordinate and direct the maintenance team effort for input into tenders and monitoring of contracts, budgets and budgetary control. Requirements: To provide strategic control and instrumentation engineering support. Experience and technical knowledge of equipment and production operations. Technical authority for control and instrumentation issues/problems. Responsible for specific platform performance standards and specific task/personnel management as identified by Production Superintendent. Build team spirit and provide leadership and mentoring as appropriate. Responsible for fostering an awareness of and adherence to relevant legislation, regulation and best available practices. To these ends responsible for instrumentation maintenance strategy and implementation. Provide specialist operations and technical expertise for ensuring the safest and most cost effective methods of installation operations, while minimising any loss of production revenue through innovative techniques, procedures and equipment. Develop, maintain and distribute company standards, procedures and specifications. Responsible for gaining a "bottom up" consensus for budget building and buy-in to annual budget performance. Contracts review, tender evaluation and monitoring of service contracts. Expected to fulfil Emergency Response role. Expect to attain company operational and system procedure knowledge and maintain a current offshore medical certificate.

Key Requirements

You will need to hold a first class or upper second class degree in Electrical or Control Engineering, and have an understanding of Control challenges of renewable energy in particular related to wind, wave and tidal energy systems. A working knowledge of power electronics would be an advantage. You will need good written communication skills (including technical report writing), the ability to work to tight deadlines and adaptability.

Job Description

The Lead Control Specialist would support the development of services for the renewable sector. Reporting to the Global Technology Leader for renewable energy, the main responsibilities are as follows: Contribute to the development of guidelines for control aspects of renewable energy Create simulations for the control functions of renewable devices Undertake design appraisal of Control aspects of renewable energy Undertake consultancy work on Control aspects of renewable energy Development of training for Control aspects of renewable energy Represent Lloyd's Register at National / International standards meetings Support Business Development of renewable

Salary

Attractive