Instrumentation Technician-Commissioning

Instrumentation Technician - Commissioning

The Company: leading international Energy, Gas and Air producer.
The role: Instrumentation technician for commissioning new plant and site.
The location: Tees Valley - Middlesborough
The Rate: £30+ negotiable dept upon experience.

The Company

The Tees Valley energy from waste project is a unique technology and is a 1/2 Billion dollar project involving over a million site man hours. The commissioning period of this phase 1 project will last several months.

The role:

A focus on the scheduling and the support of pre-commissioning activates is key to collectively working towards the projects collective goals. Help ensure the on schedule loop checking and shut down validation of all site instrumentation and within the project schedule. All Instrument related equipment at the Tees Valley facility.

Key accountability's:

*Ensure all maintenance work is carried out according to stringent safety procedures.
*Loop checking - Ensure all functional checks have been made with the correct documentation and validation procedures. Stroking of all site process valves and control systems.
*Validating the shutdown and safety systems are operational before hand over to the next stage in the commissioning.
* Troubleshooting - Investigate and resolve E&I equipment upsets and failures in a timely and efficient manner. Determine root cause of failures and follow these up by recommending and implementing appropriate solutions to reduce re-occurrence of/or eliminate the cause of failures.
*Continued Commissioning support - Respond to un-planned (emergency) breakdown situations and use technical and hands-on skills to get the equipment operational with the minimal disruption to plant on-streams, whilst adhering to all safety procedures and cost control measures.
* Reliability - Recommend and specify alterations and revisions to improve equipment and/or system reliability. Identify and escalate issued with equipment that could ultimately affect the plant the schedule of the commissioning process. Personal accountability and development- Ensure all individual KPIs are met or exceeded.

Key Skills:

*Completion of a formal Instrument related engineering apprenticeship, supplemented by post apprenticeship experience of maintenance within engineering environments such as the power, petrochemical, steel, oil and gas industries, waste management or material handling.

Supplemented by the following:

*Good written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
*Knowledge of computer based applications (Microsoft Office) and a working of ERP.
*Ability to read single line drawings, P&IDs and other technical documentation.
*Flexibility in terms of changing priorities, workload and working hours

*Process plant instrumentation of various types and age
(eg pressure, temperature, flow, level, vibration measurement and transmission systems)
*Control systems such as DCS and PLCs
*Analysers of various types (Teledyne, ABB Gc's, Servomex, ABB (H&B)
*Control and switch valves with associated actuating systems
*HV & LV switchgear, protection devices, drives and distribution systems
*HV & LV motors, generators and transformers