Control Engineer I

North Oil Company; Doha; On-site; QAR 279,000 - 502,000; Full time

Job summary

North Oil Company is seeking a senior ICSS Control & Safety Systems Engineer for an onshore Doha role with regular offshore visits. You will deliver technical maintenance, engineering support, and safe operation of ICSS systems, coordinating with offshore teams and vendor partners to uphold safety and reliability.

The role requires a Bachelor’s in Control & Instrumentation Engineering and at least seven years in oil & gas, with expertise in Yokogawa and Siemens platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Control & Instrumentation Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 7 years’ experience in Oil & Gas in a similar role or oil & gas automation firm.
• Strong knowledge of offshore plant/equipment and ICSS concepts.
• Experience with Yokogawa and Siemens control systems.
• Willingness to travel offshore and collaborate in a multi‑cultural environment.

Responsibilities

• Ensure highest safety and technical support for Control and Safety systems.
• Provide maintenance, procedures, and technical support for the discipline.
• Support offshore team, Operations Center, Maintenance, and Shutdown/Campaign entities.
• Technical administration of spare parts for Control and Safety systems.
• Coordinate with Tier 2 Maintenance Coordinator and offshore stakeholders.

Skills

ICSS engineering

Maintenance planning

Offshore coordination

HSE compliance

Fluent English

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Control & Instrumentation Engineering

Tools

YOKOGAWA Prosafe RS ESD

YOKOGAWA CENTUM VP DCS

Siemens PCS7

CMMS

Hyper-V

VMware ESXi

S7-400 (Siemens)

Job description

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• Provide front line Control & Safety system technical / engineering support and solutions.
• Technical specialist in ICSS Control & Safety system Maintenance / Engineering, Control & Safety system Discipline Engineer.
• Position interacts daily with Offshore C&I Supervisors, Tier 2 Maintenance Coordinators, Operations Centre Manager / personnel, Departmental Planners, Contracts & Procurement Department, Warehouse, Maintenance Department and Offshore Team Leaders.
• Position has interactions with external stakeholders (Contractor Management).
• Provide input into budgets and draw on experience to highlight any unusual or unexpected impacts on budgets from unplanned or unaccounted work scopes.

CONTEXT AND ENVIRONMENT

• Position is in a Joint Venture Operating Company on the Al Shaheen oil and gas field, one of the largest offshore oil and gas fields in the world.
• The role is onshore based in Doha, Qatar and is a permanent staff position on a residential basis (5 day working week).
• Role will require regular offshore trips together with visits to contractor offices and facilities.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Ensure highest safety and technical support in the assessment and recommendations for Control and Safety systems.
• Maintenance activities, issue procedures and technical support for its discipline
• Provide all aspects of Control and Safety systems engineering/technical support and assistance to offshore team, Operations Center, Maintenance support and Shutdown/Campaign entity.
• Responsible for the technical administration of all Control and Safety systems spare parts for field operation, from its creation to its refurbishment or end of life.
• Provide immediate support in close liaison with Tier 2 Maintenance Coordinator, Operations Centre Manager / personnel, Offshore stakeholders, Departmental Planners, Contracts and Procurement Department, Warehouse, Maintenance Department.

ACTIVITIES

• Encourage and foster Incident Free environment through role model safety behaviors, take corrective action wherever necessary.
• Foster and reinforce positive HSE performance by vendor personnel, contractors and peers.
• Ensuring compliance with HSE legislation, company standards and procedures under the area of responsibility to ensure employee safety, legislative compliance, and responsible environmental attitude.
• Provide first level / front line specialist technical advice and guidance to site / offshore personnel on the maintenance of plant / equipment troubleshooting, root cause analysis and investigations where required involving multidiscipline teams.
• Provide technical and administrative support to the site base operations; preparation of scopes of work for short term interventions, organization of vendors, supply direct support to site requests (vendors, spare parts, tooling, technical procedures, work packs and work order resourcing.
• Ensure daily communication with NOC-OC T2 & Maintenance Engineers in T3 and provide support where required on technical issues. Attend any video conference call with offshore OTL’s and Discipline Supervisors.
• Proactive management of all safety and business critical backlog.
• Visit offshore sites on regular basis to enhance collaboration and promote the understanding of goals to ensure information flow is maintained efficiently.
• Visit vendor workshops / Lab for Factory Acceptance Test(FAT) if required.
• Manage the repair process for critical equipment, including visits to local vendor workshops and warehouses.
• Monitor the efficiency of the maintenance strategies for the maintenance, inspection and operation of Plant / Equipment and feedback to Maintenance Engineering.
• Ensure 4 months and 5 weeks planning are optimized, liaise with planning department, and attend weekly IOP meetings to ensure gate criteria are achieved. (Spares, vendor mobilizations, tooling, shipment, PR’s)
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency of all activities, improve equipment reliability and reduce operating costs.
• Contractor / Vendor performance management.
  Share and adopt best practices across the company, support and identify opportunities to enhance consistency and alignment between assets, where practicably possible.
• All staff must be willing to participate in Crisis Response Training and to assist during Emergency Response Situations if required.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Control & Instrumentation Engineering or equivalent

Experience

• Minimum of 07 years’ experience working in the Oil and Gas industry in a similar role or oil & gas automation engineering firm.
• Significant understanding and knowledge of Offshore Oil and Gas Plant / Equipment and expert in Control & Instrumentation
• Maintenance / Engineering for the same.
• YOKOGAWA Prosafe RS ESD System
• YOKOGAWA CENTUM VP DCS
• ICSS Infrastructure System Knowledge Domain Controller, Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Platform, Vmware ESxi, Fortinet
• Siemens PCS7 knowledge is a must including (Simatic Step 7, Wincc, F-systems, Redundant H-System & S7-400) as advantage
• Versatile, resilient, and able to interact effectively working in a multi-cultural and highly technical specialized environment.
• Thorough understanding and application of industry process safety guidelines and procedures.
• Thorough knowledge of cross discipline maintenance requirements, Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
  and planning processes.
• Good communicator and able to interact effectively with peers / Line Management.
• Medically fit to travel to offshore Oil and Gas Platforms.
• Results driven approach and attitude.
• Fluent in English written and oral communication skills.
• Industry recognized training and professional certification. TUV FsEng and/or GICSP is advantage.

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