Instrumentation & Controls Engineer

Job title: Instrumentation & Controls Engineer

About the Role The role supports operations and maintenance through centralized engineering services for ExxonMobil’s upstream and downstream facilities globally. You will provide technical expertise in instrumentation and controls design and ensure compliance with relevant codes, standards, and ExxonMobil standards. The position is based in ExxonMobil Services and Technology Private Limited, Whitefield, Bengaluru, India.

What You'll Do

• Provide troubleshooting and reliability improvements for upstream, midstream and downstream manufacturing facilities to maintain safety, availability, and reliability of instrumentation systems while optimizing cost.
• Develop and execute instrument surveillance programs.
• Collect data using computer maintenance management systems (CMMS) or other available data sources.
• Analyze maintenance records to determine instrument failure rates, availability / reliability calculations, bad actor / failure modes identification, and program effectiveness / cost analysis.
• Integrate maintenance and process data into holistic understanding of instrument/process control performance.
• Utilize risk-based work selection techniques to identify and justify maintenance/improvement items for inclusion in annual and periodic maintenance plans and events.
• Coordinate, monitor and handle discipline design and engineering with EPC Contractor as per project expectation and complete the same within the time frame.
• Review and approval of EPC Contractor's work and ensure compliance with Project Specifications, relevant codes and standards and best industry practices in compliance with the contractual review periods.
• Guide less experienced engineers on standards, worksheets, design calculations, software, requisitions, technical bid evaluations, technical queries, etc.
• Participate in the development and maintenance of Global Procedures, Software, and Standards.
• Attend I&C equipment FATs, as required.
• Participate in HAZOP, SIL, and Classification Studies, as required. Assist in closing out HAZOP action items.
• Provide construction, pre-commissioning, and commissioning, Turnaround (Shutdown) Support as required.
• Develop equipment strategies/maintenance plans for instrumentations and control systems taking into consideration safety integrity level (SIL) assessment, Verification industry standards, regulatory requirement, and manufacturer recommendations.
• Support on Functional Safety assessment / Management studies.
• Review, update, and develop I&C technical documentation / drawings including piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), cause and effect, and control narratives.
• Execute control system and safety instrumented system (SIS)/ programmable logic controller (PLC) life cycle management programs which include system inventory, obsolescence plans, managing spare parts and upgrade/replacement planning.
• Support control system and safety instrumented system (SIS)/ programmable logic controller (PLC) Maintenance and test planning as required, software upgrades, emergency shutdown (ESD) testing, offline and online testing, and coordination of activities with/without plant shutdowns.
• Create and Support Management of Change (MoC) activities for I&C scope.
• Basic understanding of Cybersecurity Requirement for Control System as per Industry standards.