Senior Instrument Engineer (Contract)
Booth Welsh Automation
- Irvine, North Ayrshire
- Contract
- Full-time
- The role will include both project and proposal work
- Projects will be executed across all phases of projects including Concept Studies, FEED and Detailed Design.
- Project work will include development of Instrument Engineering deliverables as required on a project by project basis reporting to Instrument Engineering Manager.
- Assist in developing internal procedures, work instructions and guidance notes for compliance to legislation and efficient execution of projects.
- Support young Engineers in their development.
- 8+ years’ experience working as an Instrument Engineer in the Process sector.
- Chartered or working toward Chartered status (preferable but not essential).
- Degree qualified in a relevant engineering discipline (preferable but not essential). ).
- Experience of leading the Instrument discipline on various sizes of project.
- Comfortable preparing man hour estimates for Instrument scopes based on an outline scope of work
- Experienced in controlling budget and schedule for Instrument activities
- Experienced in specification, technical bid analysis and requisitioning of field instrumentation and analysers
- Experienced in selection and specification of control system hardware (PLC, DCS, SIS)
- Knowledge of Instrument requirements for mechanical packages
- Experience in Functional Safety including, knowledge of BS EN 61511, development Functional Safety Management Plan, participation in Safety Reviews, development of SRS/SIL Calculations and verification and validation activities
- Experience with exSILentia for preparing SIL Calculations (preferable but not essential)
- TUV or similar Functional Safety Engineer qualification (Not essential)
- Competent to work with hazardous area designs
- CompEx Ex12 qualified (preferable but not essential).
- Control Panel Design (incl. CE assessment/testing, ATEX certification & FAT) – preferable