Functional Safety Engineer

Job Title: Functional Safety Engineer

Location: Bangalore, KA

Experience Needed: 8 to 25 Years

Job Requirements

• Instrumentation and Controls Engineer with 8 to 25 years’ experience in Oil and Gas Industry (Upstream Oil and Gas / Downstream Refinery Units)
• Conducts Hazard & Risk Assessment, allocation of safety requirements to the SIS, functional safety requirements
• Participation in Hazard Operability (HAZOP) reviews and Safety Integrity Level (SIL) assessment study in line with industry standards, regulatory requirements IEC61508 and IEC61511.
• Experience in installation, commissioning, and maintenance of Control system (Emerson Delta V DCS, ESD & FGS, Honeywell HC900 Safety PLC, Honeywell Safety Manager, ML-200 PLC, Rockwell Advance, Schneider electric Foxboro DCS), VMS (Meggitt VM 600) TFMS (Honeywell Enraf), CCTV (Honeywell HUS & Maxpro), ACS, FAP (Simplex & ESSER) and Terminal Automation system.
• Preparation/checking of SIL assessment report for Methanol, Hydrogen, Ammonia, renewable fuel technologies, SIL Verification report review.
• Collect vendor data and analyze records to determine instrument failure rates, availability, failure modes identification and cost analysis for different instrument configurations.
• Should have handled packages (Oil & Gas) like Flare Package, Cooling Towers, Centrifugal Pumps, Desalter Package, Fired Heaters, burner management system, Reactors, ID-FD Fans, Compressors, PSA, custody metering skids, etc.
• Finalization of Guidelines and specification for Package Vendor Instrument deliverables.
• Review of Quotations, preparation of Technical Questionnaire.
• Handle custody transfer metering skids engineering, fabrication along with Vendor interface.
• Handle Machinery control system, vibration monitoring system from Bentley Nevada.

Work Experience:

Examples of typical tasks that need to be executed:

• HAZOP-LOPA review and safety instrumented function list generation, along with risk-reduction factors required, and delivered.
• Modeling any new SIFs along with IL-calculations.
• Updating all SIFs.
• Developing the SRS.
• Outlining testing requirements and frequencies.
• Entering test intervals in maintenance systems, and writing/updating test procedures.
• Study company contractual requirements and instrumentation scope boundaries and responsible for management of change within scope of work for instrumentation department.
• Understanding and including the impact of equipment sparing, redundancy, reliability, availability, maintainability, and maintenance cost in support of Operations Excellence and Capital efficiency in planning and design phase.
• Guide the team to implement work processes, procedures, and quality policy in the project.
• Responsible for the technical integrity of all Instrument Engineering Design activities deliverables for work performed by team members through project lifecycle phases and for compliance to project specific performance, quality and HSE requirements relevant to scope of work.
• Manage instrument engineering technical interfaces with equipment and package suppliers for assigned areas to ensure compliance with technical requirements.
• Represent instrument discipline in meetings, workshops and technical reviews that relate to instrument engineering.
• Responsible for proper delegation of work and for mentoring, guiding, and training of team members.
• Responsible for providing timely recommendations to resolve high priority issues and support by fast paced resolution of Instrument related queries.

Software Skills Preferred:

• SPI Intools
• Conval 9 & 10
• IES 3
• Engineering Base
• MS Office
• Smart Plant Review
• Navis works
• Python