Instrument Engineer

Lead Recruitment Consultant @ First Recruitment Group | Talent Attraction and Engagement

Contract Duration: 12 months

Purpose of the Role

The Instrument Engineer will provide discipline engineering support to UK Operations to ensure equipment integrity and operational regularity. The role supports equipment breakdowns, delivers the maintenance plan in line with the maintenance strategy, and contributes to plant optimisation initiatives.

Critical Responsibilities

• Ensure all activities are conducted safely and in full compliance with regulatory requirements, legislation, and Harbour Energy HSES procedures
• Support Instrument SECE degradation/threat management risk assessments and maintenance deferment risk assessments
• Monitor equipment and system performance, initiating and ensuring corrective actions
• Provide discipline engineering and maintenance support to UK Operations

Ethics and Compliance

• Ensure all activities and behaviours comply with Harbour Energy’s Ethics and Compliance Policies and Procedures
• Complete all compulsory compliance training as required

Areas of Accountability, Responsibility and Competence

• Provide instrument discipline support to operated assets and project teams
• Deliver maintenance plans and programmes to ensure cost-effective operation and asset integrity across the facility lifecycle
• Fully adhere to planning processes to ensure “right first time” delivery of instrument work scopes
• Provide budget input and scope definition for maintenance and modification activities
• Continuously challenge technical solutions, engineering performance, and modification project costs
• Review vendor work packs to ensure compliance with performance standard requirements
• Coordinate and robustly manage vendors to deliver planned maintenance successfully
• Collaborate with key vendors to solve complex technical issues and deliver complex scopes
• Raise Technical Work Memos (TWMs) where complex technical solutions or modifications are required
• Develop and maintain an optimised preventive maintenance programme, including detailed work packages
• Manage equipment performance, including spare parts management and warranty follow-up
• Own Management of Change (MoC) for non-like-for-like instrument scopes
• Mobilise offshore as required by the business
• Emergency Response (ER) Allowance: The postholder may be required to join the emergency response rota if the role requires

Critical Skills, Qualifications and Experience

• Educated to engineering degree level or equivalent (e.g. HND/HNC with relevant qualifications, experience, and/or vocational certificates)
• Membership of a professional engineering body and working towards Chartership (preferred)
• Operational and engineering experience (preferred)
• Developing relevant technical instrument engineering experience
• Offshore experience
• Strong understanding of processes required to meet HSE objectives and full awareness of the UK regulatory environment
• Developing understanding of Harbour Energy’s corporate and local budget, maintenance, and project management processes and tools
• Self-driven with strong personal leadership and a collaborative team-focused approach
• Excellent communication, influencing, negotiating, and networking skills; able to build strong internal and external relationships
• Ability to accept ambitious but realistic goals and consistently deliver against targets

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