Senior Instrument Engineer - Control Maintenance
ADNOC Abu Dhabi UAE
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Job summary
ADNOC Group in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Instrument Engineer - Control Maintenance to lead maintenance for plant instrumentation and control systems. You will plan, supervise, and optimize activities across facilities, coordinating preventive, corrective, and shutdown work to keep equipment reliable and available.
The role requires strong problem-solving skills, field troubleshooting, and collaboration with Operations, Mechanical, and Electrical teams to manage backlogs, spares, and upgrades
Qualifications
- Bachelor level degree in Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or equivalent.
- Minimum 6 years of experience in Instrument and Control engineering and maintenance.
- Experience coordinating multidisciplinary maintenance interfaces with Operations, Mechanical, and Electrical teams.
Responsibilities
- Plan and supervise maintenance activities for plant instrumentation and control systems.
- Coordinate preventive, breakdown, corrective, and shutdown maintenance to ensure reliability.
- Provide field engineering support during testing, troubleshooting, and start-up activities.
Skills
Education
Job description
Role: Senior Instrument Engineer - Control Maintenance Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Industry: Oil and Energy Function: Installation-Maintenance-Repair Experience: Minimum 6 years of relevant experience Job Type: Full-time Position Overview The Senior Instrument Engineer - Control Maintenance opportunity in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates within the Oil and Energy industry is responsible for planning, supervising, and improving maintenance activities for instrumentation and control systems across plant facilities. The role ensures reliable equipment performance by coordinating preventive, breakdown, and shutdown maintenance, providing field troubleshooting expertise, managing resources and spare parts, investigating failures, and supporting upgrades and new projects in accordance with ADNOC technical and HSE requirements.
Country: United Arab Emirates City: Abu Dhabi Industry: Oil and Energy Function: Installation-Maintenance-Repair Salary: Not disclosed Gender: Any Candidate Nationality: Any Job Type: Full-time Role Context Reliable instrumentation and control systems are essential for safe plant operation, process stability, equipment protection, and production continuity. This position provides the maintenance engineering expertise required to keep those systems available and operating within their intended performance standards. The Senior Instrument Engineer coordinates closely with Operations, Mechanical, Electrical, maintenance personnel, contractors, and service providers. The role balances immediate field requirements with longer-term reliability priorities, including maintenance backlog management, equipment obsolescence, system upgrades, shutdown preparation, resource planning, and integration of major maintenance requirements into rolling business plans.
- Plan and supervise maintenance activities covering plant instrumentation and control systems.
- Coordinate preventive, breakdown, corrective, and shutdown maintenance to maintain reliable equipment operation.
- Support Operations and Maintenance teams during equipment testing, troubleshooting, routine surveillance, and plant start-up activities.
- Work closely with Mechanical and Electrical teams to maintain effective coordination between operational and maintenance disciplines.
- Ensure maintenance activities are carried out according to approved schedules and established technical requirements.
- Provide field engineering support during critical maintenance interventions involving instrumentation and control equipment.
- Troubleshoot complex equipment problems and support rapid resolution to minimize plant downtime.
- Evaluate daily manpower requirements for preventive maintenance, breakdown response, and shutdown activities.
- Allocate available personnel according to work priorities, technical requirements, and maintenance schedules.
- Review maintenance workloads, outstanding backlog, and planned activities to determine execution priorities.
- Coordinate with relevant sections to complete agreed maintenance work plans within required timelines.
- Monitor resource availability and arrange additional support where necessary to maintain work plan performance.
- Track maintenance backlog and identify constraints that could affect equipment reliability or operational availability.
- Monitor requirements for materials, spare parts, consumables, specialist equipment, and maintenance tools.
- Ensure critical maintenance resources are available in the required quality and quantity to support continuous operations.
- Review spare-part requirements against equipment condition, maintenance history, and planned activities.
- Conduct Root Cause Analysis following equipment failures and non-scheduled plant shutdowns.
- Identify underlying causes of recurring instrumentation and control system failures.
- Develop corrective and preventive recommendations to improve equipment reliability and availability.
- Follow up implementation of agreed failure-resolution actions and monitor their effectiveness.
- Provide technical input for forthcoming major maintenance programs and equipment upgrades.
- Identify instrumentation and control system obsolescence issues requiring future investment or replacement.
- Support development of long-term maintenance requirements for integration into the division 's five-year rolling business plans.
- Assess equipment lifecycle concerns and recommend appropriate upgrade, replacement, or modernization strategies.
- Provide technical support during development and implementation of new projects.
- Review instrumentation and control requirements associated with new or modified plant facilities.
- Support project commissioning activities and verify equipment readiness for operational handover.
- Review technical designs and specifications with emphasis on reliability, maintainability, cost optimization, and compliance.
- Participate in defining technical requirements for equipment, materials, and specialist maintenance services.
- Conduct technical bid evaluations and provide recommendations based on specifications and operational requirements.
- Participate in inspection of received materials and equipment to verify compliance with required specifications and quality standards.
- Monitor contractor performance during assigned maintenance and project activities.
- Ensure contractors comply with applicable technical specifications, quality requirements, HSE standards, and approved work practices.
- Coordinate with consultants, third-party service providers, and other external parties when specialist technical support is required.
- Plan, supervise, and coordinate activities within the assigned maintenance area to achieve functional objectives.
- Train and develop assigned personnel in relevant instrumentation and control maintenance competencies.
- Support knowledge transfer and technical capability development within the maintenance team.
- Provide input for preparation of departmental and section maintenance budgets.
- Assist with implementation of approved budgets and work plans.
- Investigate significant budget and performance variances and support appropriate cost-control measures.
- Implement approved maintenance policies, processes, systems, standards, procedures, and internal work practices.
- Ensure activities comply with applicable legislation, legal requirements, company procedures, and international standards.
- Contribute to achievement of departmental and section performance objectives.
- Develop and implement improved maintenance tools and techniques that enhance operational efficiency and work quality.
- Benchmark internal maintenance processes against relevant best practices and ISO standards.
- Identify opportunities to improve maintenance execution, equipment reliability, and resource utilization.
- Maintain compliance with applicable HSE policies, procedures, controls, sustainability guidelines, and ADNOC Codes of Practice.
- Provide technical and operational input for section MIS and progress reports submitted to management.
- Maintain effective communication with line management, peers, Operations teams, engineering disciplines, and other ADNOC stakeholders.
The successful candidate should hold a Bachelor 's degree in Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or an equivalent professional qualification. A minimum of 6 years of experience in Instrument and Control engineering and maintenance within a large industrial organization is required, preferably within the oil and gas industry. Candidates should possess practical knowledge of plant instrumentation, control systems, preventive and corrective maintenance, shutdown activities, equipment troubleshooting, failure investigation, and maintenance planning. Experience coordinating multidisciplinary maintenance interfaces with Operations, Mechanical, and Electrical teams is important, along with the ability to prioritize workloads and manage maintenance backlogs, manpower, materials, and critical spare requirements. The position also requires the ability to evaluate technical specifications, support procurement activities, conduct technical bid evaluations, monitor contractors, and contribute to commissioning and equipment upgrade programs. Professional certifications relevant to instrumentation, control, maintenance, or reliability engineering would be advantageous where applicable. The role is primarily performed in an air-conditioned environment, with occasional site visits that may involve exposure to heat, humidity, dust, and prevailing outdoor conditions.
- Instrumentation maintenance
- Control systems maintenance
- Instrument and Control engineering
- Plant instrumentation
- Process control systems
- Preventive maintenance
- Corrective maintenance
- Breakdown maintenance
- Shutdown maintenance
- Maintenance planning
- Maintenance execution
- Maintenance supervision
- Equipment troubleshooting
- Root Cause Analysis
- Equipment failure investigation
- Reliability improvement
- Equipment availability
- Maintenance backlog management
- Workload planning
- Manpower allocation
- Resource planning
- Spare parts management
- Maintenance materials
- Equipment surveillance
- Plant start-up support
- Equipment testing
- Instrument system upgrades
- Control system upgrades
- Obsolescence management
- Five-year maintenance planning
- Project technical support
- Commissioning
- Technical specifications
- Technical bid evaluation
- Material inspection
- Contractor performance management
- Maintenance cost control
- MIS reporting
- ISO standards
- HSE compliance
- Multidisciplinary coordination
This position offers experienced instrumentation and control professionals the opportunity to take broader responsibility for the reliability of systems that directly support plant safety, process control, and production continuity. The role combines hands‑on technical troubleshooting with maintenance leadership, shutdown planning, failure analysis, equipment modernization, project commissioning, contractor coordination, and long‑term asset planning. This breadth of responsibility provides a strong platform for continued progression in maintenance engineering, reliability, and operational leadership within the energy sector.
ADNOC Group is a leading diversified energy organization wholly owned by the Abu Dhabi Government. Founded in 1971, ADNOC operates across an integrated energy value chain and plays a central role in the economic development and energy security of Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates. Its large-scale industrial and upstream operations depend on disciplined maintenance, reliable instrumentation and control systems, advanced engineering practices, and rigorous HSE standards to maintain safe and efficient asset performance.
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