What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Instrument Engineer position at Brunel?
One of Brunel's major Oil & Gas clients is looking for an experience Instrument Engineer to come join their downstream team at their Baytown facilities on a 6 - 12 month contract opportunity. This individual will be supporting both large and small CAPEX projects.
Key Responsibilities
Project Development & Engineering
- Develop instrumentation and control system scope for refinery capital projects ranging from unit upgrades and debottlenecking initiatives to major grassroots and brownfield expansions.
- Prepare and review engineering deliverables including:
- Instrument Indexes
- Instrument Data Sheets
- Control Narratives
- Cause & Effect Matrices
- Loop Diagrams
- Hook-up Drawings
- Instrument Location Plans
- Wiring and Interconnection Drawings
- SIS Documentation
- Support process hazard analyses (PHA), HAZOPs, LOPAs, SIL assessments, and management of change (MOC) activities.
- Review and approve contractor engineering deliverables for technical accuracy and compliance with project requirements.
Instrumentation Design
- Specify and select field instrumentation including pressure, temperature, flow, level, analytical, and control devices.
- Develop specifications for control valves, relief valve instrumentation, analyzers, and packaged equipment instrumentation.
- Ensure compliance with refinery standards, ISA, IEC, API, NFPA, NEC, and other applicable industry standards.
- Support development of control system architectures including DCS, PLC, SIS, and communications networks.
Capital Project Execution
- Collaborate with project managers, process engineers, operations personnel, maintenance teams, and EPC contractors throughout project execution.
- Provide instrumentation engineering support during procurement, construction, commissioning, and startup phases.
- Evaluate technical bids and support vendor selection processes.
- Participate in factory acceptance testing (FAT), site acceptance testing (SAT), and commissioning activities.
- Resolve field technical issues and provide timely engineering support to maintain project schedules.
Safety, Reliability & Compliance
- Ensure instrumentation systems support refinery process safety objectives and regulatory compliance requirements.
- Apply cybersecurity requirements for industrial control systems.
- Support functional safety lifecycle activities for Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS).
- Promote inherently safe design principles and operational reliability.
Construction & Startup Support
- Perform field walkdowns and verify installation compliance with engineering designs.
- Support punch-list resolution and turnover documentation.
- Assist operations and maintenance personnel during startup and performance testing.
- Develop commissioning and startup plans for instrumentation systems.
Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Instrumentation Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or related engineering discipline.
- Professional Engineer (PE) registration preferred.
Experience
- 5 years of instrumentation engineering experience in refining, petrochemical, chemical processing, or oil and gas facilities.
- Experience supporting large capital projects ($10MM–$500MM ) preferred.
- Demonstrated experience with refinery process units such as crude, FCC, hydroprocessing, sulfur recovery, utilities, and tank farms.