Instrumentation & Automation Lead_ROIS Dept.
Saipem is a global leader in the engineering and construction of major projects for the energy and infrastructure sectors, both offshore and onshore. Saipem is “One Company” organized into five business lines - Asset Based Services, Energy Carriers, Offshore Wind, Sustainable Infrastructures, Robotics & Industrialized Solutions. The company has 8 fabrication yards and an offshore fleet of 23 construction vessels (of which 21 owned and 2 owned by third parties and managed by Saipem) and 15 drilling rigs, of which 8 owned. Always oriented towards technological innovation, the company’s purpose is “Engineering for a sustainable future”. As such Saipem is committed to supporting its clients on the energy transition pathway towards Net Zero, with increasingly digital means, technologies and processes geared for environmental sustainability. Listed on the Milan Stock Exchange, it is present in more than 50 countries around the world and employs about 30,000 people of over 120 nationalities.
Always committed to promoting and supporting the values of diversity and inclusion, Saipem confirms its commitment to valuing differences as a source of mutual enrichment. To this end, it promotes and encourages conditions that allow the removal of every obstacle that limits the full expression of people and their complete development within the organization. It protects and guarantees work conditions that respect individual dignity, while promoting a collaborative, harmonious, fair and supportive work environment.
As Instrumentation & Automation Leader, you will join our Department of Electrical and Instrumentation Automation and Telecommunication, in the business line ROIS.
He/she will oversee the Instrumentation, Telecommunication, Control and Safety Systems for international projects within the Renewable Sources and Circular Economy sectors handling and coordinating complex Instrumentation and Control Systems engineering design, analysis, and development of an assigned scope of work in a project and/or specific complex supply such as DCS, SIS, FGS, BMS, MMS, CCS, packaged Equipment UCPs, Flow Metering System, Instrumented Storage Systems as well as Field Instrumentation , Automated Valves and miscellaneous Telecommunication Systems.
The Instrument and Automation Leader will report to the Technical and Project Managers assigned to the Project and to the Head of Engineering while preparing the execution strategy of the project and assure its application throughout the entire project life; Within medium size projects he/she ensures the coordination of teams within Saipem’s Group, outsourced personnel, and Telecom Systems Integrators.
Within the Division, the Instrument and Automation Leader has also the duty to provide guidance to the Head of Engineering on any problems related to the application of procedures and working methods, in order to improve the efficiency of the department and hold training courses according to Company needs, and to compare with colleagues within the Group, on new design techniques.
Functional job responsibilities, complying with either BASIC, Industrialisation, FEED or EPC project design phases, will include the coordination of following activities:
- To support the estimation of project CAPEX/OPEX as well as manhours load
- To read, analyze, review and mechanize P&IDs
- To develop and review Block Diagrams, Control Narratives, Sequence Flow Charts, Cause and Effect Diagrams, Logic Diagrams, Instrument Loop Diagrams
- To define, populate and maintain Project Control Systems I/Os Databases (SPI)
- To properly interpret and apply codes & standards and customer design requirements, for the preparation of Instrumentation and Control Systems design products
- To develop Discipline Specifications and Requisitions
- To evaluate Specifications and Vendor Quotations
- To support Packages/Mechanical Systems Department reviewing Packages/Mechanical Systems suppliers data and descriptions to determine control and instrumentation functional requirements
- To ensure appropriate Telecom, Field Instrumentation and Systems selection, sizing and delivery
- To assume responsibility for cost, schedule, quantity and budget control
- To ensure effective communication among other engineering disciplines
- To provide necessary inputs and coordinate documents with suppliers, other disciplines and customers
- To be able to effectively communicate technical solutions and concepts to other engineers and non-engineers
- To ensure effective management of change
- To mentor junior engineers and facilitate their development both technically and professionally
- To cooperate with the Project Lead Electrical Engineer for the preparation, application and maintenance of the project procedures and deliverables
- To review Telecom and Control Systems Vendor Functional Design Specifications / Drawings / Procedures/Manuals to ensure their technical compliance
- To attend and perform Control Systems FAT/IFAT and SAT and witnessing the compliance of vendor in meeting the project requirements
- To proactively attend to HAZID/HAZOP and SIL Allocation studies
- To contribute to the SIL verification assurance process
- To learn the latest technology in instrumentation and controls in order to maintain current proficiency in the industry, and be able to make the best technology recommendations
- To interact with Client representatives, Vendors and Subcontractors for technical topics
- To guarantee assistance to the Inspection, Construction and Commissioning Departments as per project needs
- To support the proposal efforts in projects bids preparing man-hour estimates and planning activities for proposals as required
- To have full knowledge of the workflows, of the various phases and dynamics that characterize the plant engineering and the specialist engineering for tools/analyzers of a plant
QUALIFICATION: Master’s degree or technical diploma
KNOWLEDGE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE: B2/C1
LABOUR RELATIONSHIP: permanent contract
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE:
- Proven experience of at least 5 years in the same or similar role with International Main Contracting & Engineering Companies
- Detailed knowledge, with direct experience with Control and Safety Systems (i.e. DCS, ESD/SIS, F&G, PLCs, MMS, CCS, RTU, SCADA)
- Familiar with Control and Safety Systems codes and standards both domestic and international STDs.
- Instrumentation Database (Smart Plant Instrumentation/AVEVA/EB) knowledge
- Ownership of Discipline oriented International Credits and Acknowledgements will be considered a plus
- Knowledge earned and experience spent over Digitalisation Features (Advanced Systems, IoT implementation, digital twin architectures, MES&ERP, remote operations and OT Cybersecurity) applied to project will be considered a plus
- Carried out coordination activities and able to manage independently the workload and team work, in full compliance with the times and the hour budget/projects costs
SOFT SKILLS:
Structured & Analytical approach to develop and analyze technical documentation
- LOCATION: Milano HO. Availability to travel abroad to offices and construction site
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