Department Head - Control & Instrument

About The Role

PD&MS Group have a great opportunity for a Control & Instrumentation Department Head to join our progressive C&I Engineering team team based in Aberdeen or Glasgow on a full time, employee basis.

Duties

• Responsible for coordinating resources to ensure the correct personnel and competency are available for delivery of work scopes
• Experience required in leading a team of engineers and coordinating work tasks to achieve required plan dates.
• Perform technical authority for the C&I discipline.
• Responsible for team training and development
• Champion innovation and develop new engineering capabilities within the discipline and PD&MS.
• Support technical and commercial bids and other business development activities.
• Knowledge of, and compliance with, client, industry and international specifications and standards.Assurance that personnel under theDepartment Headscontrolcomply withrelevant documents
• Managementof personnel andoverallresponsibilityfor the technical content and quality ofwork producedfor own discipline,training and development.
• Accountable for coordination ofalldiscipline input to support delivery and to ensure design integrity and consistency
• Identifyand resolve any issue delaying design delivery / related procurement, irrespective of group/ disciplines involved. Key aspect is to positively drive cross-discipline delivery and remove any blockers, assess dependencies between disciplines and ensure the correct sequence of workflow to provideoptimaldelivery and negate rework
• Identifyspecialist3rdparty input/ PD&MS Consult input isidentifiedand planned for execution at the correct time
• Oversee deliveryofcost effectiveengineering solutions that are fit for purpose, safe and add value to both PD&MS and the Client. Motivation ofalldiscipline personnel to do similarly.
• Preparation / approval of estimates and tender packages
• Overall discipline responsibility from receipt of tender / invitation to quote through to completion of the documentation package for all departmental work
• Overall technicaland commercialauthority for department
• Delivery of department project design deliverablesin accordance withagreed schedules and priorities and ahead of the estimates in terms of productivity
• Representation of PD&MS with Clients,Suppliers / Vendorsand Certifying Authoritiesin a professional manner
• Convening periodic departmental and inter-departmental production meetings
• Managementof resources andtimelyidentification of changes to resource requirements
• Right-sizing of discipline team and drive to utilisation of mostcost effectiveresourcewhereappropriateindelivering the work
• Review and monitoringof competenceof engineering personnelwithin the department.In conjunction with Lead Engineers, management ofshortfalls such as training, coaching, mentoringorother measures.
• Where applicable, responsible for ensuring thatFinance Department is notified of allwork which can be billed, on an ongoing basis, but monthly as a minimum
• Periodic reviewof company procedures and policies
• Proficient in the use of allProTools
• Remain up to date with technical developments, client, national and internationalstandardsand legislative requirements related to the position
• Awareness and understanding ofthe business drivers and values
• Actively promote services of company whenever possible and source work ifpossibleto do so
• Review personnel performance, competency and work ethic and action accordingly
• Review, orappropriate delegationof timesheets, holiday requests and working time
• Responsible for ensuring professional development ismaintainedandidentifiedcompetency requirements are undertakenin a timely manner
• Adherence to the company integrated management system
• Compliance with quality assurance, health and safety and environmental policies
• Demonstrate and promote PD&MS QHSE principles and lead by example
• Ensure unsafe activities are challenged
• Adherence to the requirements of the best practice standards recommendations and processes in the undertaking of duties, in particular, riskassessment and control,reliabilityand failure prevention necessary to ensure the safe design, provision and use of tools,equipmentand systems
• Demonstrate and promote PD&MS values and lead by example
• Ensure direct report performance reviews are carried out within the required timescales

About You

The successful candidate would ideally have the following skills and attributes:

• BSc in relevant Engineering Discipline
• Significant, demonstrable experience in Detailed Design Engineering and Engineering Checking/Approval
• Understanding of all Engineering disciplines
• Thorough knowledge and understanding of relevant Oil & Gas Industry Codes and Standards
• Understand the application ofAutodesk Design products
• Competent in the use of MS Office applications
• Experience in managing and developing others
• Excellent written and spoken English
  

Specific Experience required:

• TUV certification and experience in functional safety PHAs required to perform role as head of functional safety.
• Experience in managing team budgets, produce scope estimates and recognising and controlling scope change.
• Significant experience performing studies, equipment selection reviews, specification, technical bid evaluations and package management of equipment packages in an EPC environment or client role is highly preferred.
• Oil and Gas Control and Instrumentation Engineering experience.
• Demonstrable Experience and Knowledge in Field Instrument selection and application particularly;

• Control valves
• Shutdown Valves
• Pressure Safety Valves
• Flowmeters
• Pressure Transmitters
• Temperature Transmitters
• Level Transmitters
• Switches
• F&G Detectors

Demonstrable Experience and Knowledge in Control system modification, particularly;

• DCS/PCS
• ESD/PSD/PSS
• F&G
• HIPPS
• Metering
• UCPs

Experience in writing/checking/approving system SoW for 3rd party systems vendors listed above.Demonstrable Experience and Knowledge in participating in the below;

• HAZOP/HAZID and any other PHA
• Fault Tree Analysis
• LOPA
• Risk Assessments
• Workshops/Reviews

Understanding of CE/ATEX and UKCA certification of equipment is essential.Experience in support to construction and commissioning activities.About UsOur Company delivers small, medium and large sized brownfield engineering and construction projects to both onshore and offshore facilities within the UKCS, and beyond.
In addition to our Oil & Gas delivery stream we are leading the way in the Low Carbon Energy Sector, as well as providing opportunities in Energy Transition and Cleantech sectors.

We strongly believe in our core values, the PD&MS GENES, which defines who we are and what we do on a daily basis, the way we deliver and what our company stands for. Each Gene is underpinned by our safety message without compromise to safety or quality, safety and quality do not stand alone as company values because they are integrated into everything we do.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and value inclusion and diversity. We welcome applications from all persons regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status.

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Location: Torry, GB

Posted Date: 6/26/2024