Instrument Engineer
2017 EDG
Total years of experience :29 years, 1 Months
Verification of Instrument datasheets by cross checking against all information available through documentum and Engineering portal, Work carried out in Perth office for Chevrons Gorgon Project. SIL rated instruments checked with greater rigour. Level and flow calculations performed from process information and deviations flagged back to site for investigation.
Controls and Instrumentation. Revalidation of the risks associated with instrument protective functions. Attended Process Hazard Assessment workshops for the Gorgon Barrow Island LNG project. Site visit to assess and report AS61511 roll out status. Presented as found status to site management and proposed remediation works to comply with AS61511.
Member of project management consultancy services team providing PMC services for automation design and construction of a polyester plant.
•Liaising between the designer (Hyundai) and the Client (Petro-Vietnam) in the role of client representative.
•Plant walk-rounds and final QC on instrumentation and control systems. Final sign off stages on control and safety systems through commissioning and handover.
•Provided safety, control and instrumentation expertise as required for construction issues
Providing project and detailed Engineering design for the Gorgon Project, water treatment plant infrastructure.
•Responsibility for the integration of major control systems provided by three separate teams to culminating in FAT and SAT to ensure the systems worked together.
•Responsible for the co-ordination of the design schedule and design tasks and also direction of the design of the safety shut down systems.
Member of project management consultancy services team for Petro-Vietnams bio-ethanol project.
•Worked between design offices in Pune India and Hanoi Vietnam.
•Provided expertise on project sequencing, technical input and quality.
•Provided system for non conformance reporting for procured items and for site installed systems, produced and managed system for tracking these NCRs. Signed off NCR issues.
•Also provided guidance on implementation of AS 61508 safety system implementation and vendor selection.
Principal instrument and control systems engineer responsible for EMS rollout, technical leadership and quality control on all projects in the Egypt office.
•Design of control and communication systems for Safety Instrumented Systems on a range of Greenfield and brownfield oil and gas facilities.
•Attended HAZOPs and LOPA reviews, set SIL targets and maintenance requirements.
•Set up training for WorleyParsons systems (EMS). Elected as mentor for WP’s Graduate Training Program.
•Set up framework for training systems for technical competency, evaluation and improvement across all departments including AS61508 and AS61511 requirements.
Safety Systems
•Writing performance standards for safety systems for Woodside NWS oil and gas assets.
•Setting standards and aligning safety case standards across all Woodside’s offshore and onshore facilities.
•Practical review of SIL classifications for environmental analysers.
Responsible for the planning, engineering and procurement of the instrument and controls component for an A$130 million waste water upgrade project.
•Specified and procured the equipment, vendor progress and quality, site inspections carried; out equipment comparison to specification and exception reporting and change impact mitigations implemented.
•Managed alterations to specifications at commissioning stage
•Managing a team of four engineers with direct control of sub-contractors and sub consultants.
Responsible for hiring, building and training, a team of four engineers and 20 technicians working as pre-operations/ commissioning team on a Greenfield gold mine construction project for Newmont Ghana Gold.
•Included 4, 500 instrument and control points; planning of manning and resources; creation of workflow systems and liaising with construction crews to ensure coordinated installation and commissioning using
Alliance contract with Water Corporation creation and roll out of standard designs for telemetry and wide area SCADA control and WAN and LAN monitoring throughout Western Australia, where I was the client representative to the water corporation for control systems.
•Responsible for team of 17 engineers and all aspects of design and costing and budget through to installation and commissioning.
•Organised client and vendor liaison meetings
Responsible for the design and installation of instrumentation and control (safety and process) systems; writing functional specification and ensuring overall plant design conforms to Australian standards; design registrations.
•Ensured AS61508 compliance with 1996 OSH regulations for the design of a prototype biomass gas burning renewable 1MW energy plant. Designed all instrumentation systems and became the client interface to the construction company.
•Creation of datasheets for the procurement of instrumentation equipment, verified correct specifications of equipment installed. Involved in commissioning plant through startup.
Feasibility study for the tender for expansion work for a nickel ore mine in North Western Australia, using documentum
Design and Engineering interfaces for various package control systems to oil and gas platform control and shutdown system. Wrote control narratives for burner management system for integration into the Yokogawa system. Specified SIL level and redundancy required and attended HAZOP
•Software and hardware design specification written; detailed design of instrumentation.
Responsible for the design, specification and procurement of instrumentation systems for the Woodman Point waste water treatment plant upgrade.
•Wrote the Delta V DCS system specification, for Wesfarmers LPG Refinery plant expansion and designed the instrumentation systems
Responsible for the planning, testing reporting and remediation of Armco’s Y2K project as the clients representative.
•This covered 18 Oil production facilities (refineries, pipelines, distribution etc.) across Saudi Arabia; co-ordination and technical direction of team of six Engineering teams across Saudi Arabia and Liaison with Aramco Management; control of $17 million budget for remediation of Instrumentation and Process Control systems.
Siemens interface to Mac Alpines during construction of £1.4 billion microelectronics semiconductor wafer fabrication plant.
•Responsible for specifying installing and commissioning control systems.
•Moved into operation, maintenance and upgrade phases with an annual operations budget of £750, 000.
•Also responsible for specification and implementation for control of chemical and gas shutdown systems - phosphine, silane and fluorine.
•Programmed and network administered Unix based Bailey System 6 DCS and Siemens S5 and S7 PLCs.
Successfully designed, prototyped, installed and implemented vision inspection systems across production lines for final visual functional testing / inspection and statistical analysis of mobile phones coming off production lines.
Designed a Modicon PLC interfaced radio control system to automatically and remotely control five diesel electric locomotives pulling 200, 000 ton mass of iron ore, for loading terminal at Paraburdoo Iron Ore mine, North West Australia. Wrote control narrative.
Providing Engineering support on platform instrument & control systems on North Rankin “A” gas production platform.
•Triple redundant fire and gas shutdown (GP Elliot), RB211 gas turbine & Dresser Instrumentation control system. Led and successfully planned shutdowns and supervised controls projects offshore.
Successfully specified upgrade work on fire and safety systems at BHP Iron Ore mine site.
•Also designed installed and commissioned a combined telemetry -PLC control and monitoring system for a water supply system consisting of eight pump sites
Contracted to write a technical training package system for Argyle diamonds mine for Allen Bradley PLC5-250 Control system.
•Training courses conducted on site for technical personnel involved instruction on how to program and system fault-finding.
Contract for design and programming of computer vision systems for the measurement, inspection, identification and rejection of faulty components in real time, mass production manufacturing environments, programmed in assembler language using triple parallel 68030
up, calibration, installation and inspection; fire & gas, system maintenance;
•Total MCP01; wellhead instrumentation shutdown system maintenance;
•Hydrocarbons Great Britain; commissioning of Morecambe Bay offshore gas platforms shutdown control systems;
•BP - Magnus, instrument and controls maintenance on Fire and Gas systems;
•Occidental Claymore platform; Refit after Piper Alpha event forced field shutdown
•St. Fergus (Shell) onshore gas plant, instrumentation control systems inspection and commissioning. Honeywell TDC 2000 system. Responsible for ensuring that installed instrumentation, fire and Gas and shutdown systems conformed to performance standards and specifications, hazardous area inspection. Supervised team of eight technicians.
Responsible within a multidiscipline team, for innovation of electronic and electro-hydraulic systems design, sonar, CCTV, communications. Prototype design of a remotely controlled 32 tonne, bottom crawling (SeaBug) robot on tank tracks. This was taken on trials into operation and maintenance of instrument systems.
•The vehicle pioneered the use of robotics in the North Sea oil industry for deep sea diver replacement, carried through to provide operational and Engineering support, trenching pipelines to satellite oil wells on Magnus field.
Produced design verification report using exSILentia from exida.
•Safety system design and 61508 lifecycle for Rio Tinto Iron Ore Cape Lambert port expansion project.
•Advising on design of machine safety systems and checking that systems conform to AS 61508 / 61511 and suitability for independent third party review. LOPA review, SIL selection and HAZOP re-verification.
courses: Passport to Safety Programme (psychological aspects of safety) •White Card •Advanced Unix Administrator •Elsag Bailey (ABB) symphony and System 6 DCS Basic Intermediate and advanced courses in Philadelphia •Fire & Rescue Team Training •Helicopter Underwater Escape Training •16th edition electrical wiring rules (UK) •EITB Technical Apprenticeship and ONC
courses: Passport to Safety Programme (psychological aspects of safety) •White Card •Advanced Unix Administrator •Elsag Bailey (ABB) symphony and System 6 DCS Basic Intermediate and advanced courses in Philadelphia •Fire & Rescue Team Training •Helicopter Underwater Escape Training •16th edition electrical wiring rules (UK) •EITB Technical Apprenticeship and ONC