Instrument Field Engineer
Maire Tecnimont
Total years of experience :14 years, 10 Months
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
• Consistently meeting daily maintenance and reporting targets, and documented and resolved Profibus failures, facilitating downtime reduction of critical equipment
• Ensuring continual improvements to working conditions and guaranteed compliance to HSE standards
• Accurately performing on-site field surveys and writing technical narratives to document processes and design changes
• Directing the activities of Electrical and Instrumentation Technicians during shifts, ensuring proper functioning of instruments and electrical components, and accurately training new employees
• Offering engineers, technicians, and designers’ technical direction on SEP/PREP projects and initiatives and supervising the control panel wiring/termination team
• Efficiently monitoring and inspecting motor running load, temperature, bearing conditions, vibration, and VFD performance as well as developing the PPM framework
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Generating the instrument index, I/o list & count, specifications, wiring, loop/hook-up diagrams, and BOM
• Carrying out research to test and analyse feasibility, design, operation and performance of equipment, components, and systems
• Successfully calibrating, troubleshooting and maintaining Temperature (RTD & TC), pressure, flow, level, analytical transmitters/sensors, proximity, limit switch, valves /actuators, and VFD-controlled motors in the Silo conveyors, Tank Farm, Refinery, Preparation, Solvent Extraction, Effluent Treatment, and Acid plants
• Creating a control panel operation sequence and ensuring correct operation and maintenance of the power plant generators
• Configuring SPI projects and managing PPM data base for instruments/equipment and testing to ensure that all rewound motors are within required specifications
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
• Consistently met the eight-loop daily target and made continual improvements to working conditions, ensuring zero injuries or accidents, as well as compliance with HSE standards
• Collaborated with a team of 24 in the Commissioning of EGINA FPSO project, supervised a team of eight staff, and won the most organised and diligent team of the E&I Department
• Revised instrumentation guidelines to address exceptions and provided required clarification and guaranteed safe systems of work by ensuring team members endorsed the Permit-To-Work
• Participated in the development of instrumentation operating procedures and provided technical support
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Performed diagnostic inspections to monitor automated systems and repaired issues both remotely and on-site
• Took part in design specification review meetings and collaborated with inter-departmental teams to align ongoing efforts and overall business goals
• Carried out loop checking, troubleshooting and maintaining the High Integrity Protection System (HIPS), Hydrocarbon Blanket/Recovery packages and production riser systems
• Efficiently troubleshot communication networks, temperature, pressure, level/analyser transmitters, indicators and switches
• Stroked control, SDV and ESD valves via the marshalling cabinets (Honeywell) and HMIs and ran earth integrity and leakage fault tests on instrument loop components
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
• Trained junior staff on machine operation and maintenance installations as a way to achieve project efficiencies
• Regularly met daily maintenance targets and conducted inspections on blocked towers to check for defects and eliminate machine downtime and supported the resolution of future issues by monitoring and reporting daily instrument performance
• Conducted electrical acceptance testing of completed hardware, including continuity and high-potential isolation testing
• Dismantled, repaired and installed pumps, drivers and associated instrumentation; checked for malfunctioning sensing elements, and calibrated Thermocouple/RTD, D/P cell, ratio and analyser transmitters, flow meters, and valves
• Performed maintenance procedures and repairs on existing electrical products and systems, and administered energised and de-energised testing on multi-design change packages
• Created, aligned and optimised electrical instrumentation and testing equipment and inspected completed installations to observe operations and verify conformance to design and equipment specifications
Key achievements
• Increasing the contract win rate by 30% by developing positive customer relationships
• Reducing accident rates in hazardous areas by 90%
• Delivered a 20% reduction in overheads through the efficient delivery of housekeeping and final inspections
• Evaluating the scope of planned works, conducting market surveys and preparing tenders for submission
• Organising the mobilisation of staff, materials and equipment to the project site
• Advising and training personnel on column positioning, tunnel climbing and manhole loosening
• Dismantling, cleaning and repairing pressure test and couple heat exchangers and other equipment
• Managing documentation, reporting and inspection of the completed project
• Sketching piping systems and producing dimensioned drafts using AutoCAD
• Cutting steel pipes and aligning joints, elbows and flanges prior to welding
Key achievements
• Reducing project lead times by 2 weeks
• Reducing labour costs by 10%
Worked with rig floor and inspection crews in the drilling and completion of wells FY 38(TXZK-2) and TXZK-4)
-Engaged in 3-D seismic data acquisition at OML 119 (NPDC location) and OML 244, OML 79 (SNEPCO)
- Gauged crude oil tanks at Escravos (Chevron ) and Forcados ( SPDC) terminals
-Wrote reports to my supervisor in DPR for all operations attended to
Level 5 IVQ Advanced Technician Diploma
Higher National Diploma (HND)
