INSTRUMENT MAINT. ENGINEER

Primary purpose

Maintenance and shift coordination

• Complete work orders and checklists with actual labor hours, materials used, job completion dates, and analyzed codes.
• At the end of each shift, update the Senior Operations Maintenance Engineer on section status and discuss technical or logistical assistance needs and programme delays.
• Monitor contractors and control their on-site DCS and telemetry instrumentation work; explain permit-to-work procedures.
• Personally perform complex maintenance and repairs, including work on interlocks, shutdown equipment, circuit boards, nodes, lamps, transmitters, and electronic chips.
• Calibrate complex instrumentation and control systems; analyze electronic-circuit faults, particularly in digital and microprocessor-based instruments.
• Perform fieldbus, block-diagram, and graphic modifications.

Materials and records

• Receive, identify, and securely store incoming materials and spare parts, ensuring they are fully labeled.
• Check shipment manifests against contents, sign delivery notes, and pass copies to the Senior Maintenance Operation Engineer for onward dispatch to the Material Coordinator.
• Return incorrect materials to the Doha Coordinator with documentation and comments.
• Regularly review outstanding preventive and corrective maintenance jobs and reduce the accumulated backlog.
• Maintain files for completed and ongoing work, requisitions and orders, and instrument-work paperwork, including data sheets, material costs, repair failures, and activity reports.

Required experience and education

• At least ten years of varied petrochemical-industry experience installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting electronic and pneumatic instruments and control systems.
• BSc in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Aptitude for understanding drawings, P&IDs, and cause-and-effect information for complex microprocessor- or pneumatic-based field and package instrumentation control systems.