Senior Instrumentation & Automation Engineer - Offshore Oil & Gas

Woodside Energy Group

Houston (TX)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave benefits

Competitive pay package

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Job summary

Woodside Energy Group in Houston seeks an GOA Instrumentation & Automation Engineer to provide technical assurance for instrumentation, automation, control, safety, and hazardous-area equipment across the Shenzi facility and subsea systems.

The role focuses on I&A with electrical capability, owning interfaces, and leading troubleshooting, reliability improvements, and engineering changes to ensure safe, reliable operations. Offshore travel is required.

Qualifications

Bachelor of Science degree in Instrumentation, Controls Engineering, Electrical Engineering or closely related discipline.
Approximately 10+ years of relevant industry experience in oil and gas, energy, petrochemical, or comparable process industries.
Strong instrumentation, automation, and controls capability with practical electrical engineering experience.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership and assurance for instrumentation, automation, control, safety, fire and gas, and associated systems.
Provide technical ownership for hazardous-area equipment and installations, including equipment selection, certification, installation, inspection, maintenance interfaces, and resolution of technical issues.
Troubleshoot instrumentation, PLC/DCS/HMI, safety systems, communications, metering, field devices, and electrical interfaces with Operations, Maintenance, vendors, and other engineering disciplines.
Apply electrical engineering to power supplies, UPS/DC, motor control, drives, grounding, and electrical distribution.
Lead or participate in Root Cause Analyses, reliability improvement, abnormal operating condition assessments, and Case to Operate activities.
Review and implement engineering and maintenance changes per Management of Change requirements.
Participate in HAZID, HAZOP, LOPA, SIL, functional safety, commissioning, and start-up activities.
Provide technical direction to contractors and support projects through design, procurement, testing, commissioning, and handover.
Travel offshore for field verification and commissioning as required.