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Lead Control & Instrument Designer

Oil, Gas and Renewables
Glasgow
3 weeks ago
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About The Role

Do you enjoy a challenge? Do you want to make a difference? Are you ready to engineer change within the industry and wider community?

At PD&MS, we’re determined to help drive the change that our world needs to see. To support current and new customers to be part of the energy transition, through future-friendly solutions.

You can be part of our vision!

Working Pattern: Permanent / Full Time

As the Lead Control & Instrumentation Designer (C&I), you will:

  • Have great safety awareness and culture in all modifications involved.
  • Provide ownership, input, and guidance in the fundamentals of Control and Instrumentation design.
  • Be technically competent in your discipline and actively maintain your competence according to standards and pursue continuous professional development.
  • Have experience in producing, checking, and approving deliverables that conform to all applicable industry engineering codes and standards as well as the client’s policies and procedures related to the equipment being specified. A sound knowledge of relevant commonly used codes is therefore required.
  • Have the understanding and ability to interpret system Process and Instrument Diagrams, fabrication drawings, and schematics.
  • Lead a team of designers and coordinate work tasks to achieve required plan dates or be a senior/principal engineer looking for a step up in their career.

The role offers:

  • Development opportunities: the opportunity to develop within your technical department, to be appreciated, and to work with people who have the same goals and are driven to succeed.
  • Varied workload: you’ll have the chance to transfer your skills and develop in our industry and deliver on projects across the full energy sector, from conventional to renewable energies.
  • Opportunities for transferable skills: if your experience isn’t traditional oil & gas, we still want to hear from you! If you’ve EPC experience in nuclear, rail, utilities, petro-chemical, renewables, marine, and pharmaceuticals, then please apply.
  • Salary: Competitive salary depending on knowledge and experience plus a range of benefits that support your finances, wellbeing, and family.
  • Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance, Income Protection, Private Medical Cover, Private Dental Cover, 33 days holiday, Holiday Buy, Flexible Working, Employee Assistance Programme, and CashPlan.
  • Location: Aberdeen or Glasgow – hybrid working 3 days in the office with flexibility to work from home for 2 days.

About You

You’ll have experience of:

  • On/offshore FEED and detailed design Control and Instrumentation surveys and sourcing technical understanding. (Preferred but not essential)
  • Control and Instrumentation design experience (Oil & Gas preferred but not essential) in delivery of Control and Instrumentation projects.
  • Typical software packages used for Control and Instrumentation engineering design: AUTOCAD (and RasterCAD)/MicroStation/Bluebeam.
  • Producing, checking, and approving design deliverables: Block Diagrams, Loop Diagrams, Termination Diagrams, Interconnection Diagrams, C&Es, Layout Diagrams, Cable Schedules, Hook-Up Diagrams, Material Requests, Reports. Demonstrable experience and knowledge in Field Instrument cabling particularly: Control valves, Shutdown Valves, Pressure Safety Valves, Flowmeters, Pressure Transmitters, Temperature Transmitters, Level Transmitters, Switches, F&G Detectors. Demonstrable experience and knowledge in Control system modification, particularly on the wiring interfaces between field instruments and between systems: DCS/PCS/ESD/PSD/PSS/F&G/HIPPS/Metering/UCPs.
  • Demonstrable experience and knowledge in vendor liaison of all the systems vendors noted above.
  • Offshore and onshore oil & gas business but similar transferable industry skills will also be considered in lieu of specific O&G experience.
  • CE/ATEX and UKCA knowledge is essential.
  • Demonstrable experience and knowledge in Health, Safety, Environmental, and Quality systems.

Personal attributes

Our GENES, our core values, define who we are, what we stand for and how we deliver.

  • Go the extra mile
  • Empower our people
  • Never get complacent
  • Engage our partners
  • Step up and deliver

If this sounds like you, then you could be a perfect fit.

Qualifications

  • HND in relevant engineering discipline / HNC in relevant engineering discipline
  • Conversant in most common Microsoft Office applications
  • Having offshore BOSIET, MIST, and medical are preferred for the role with experience of site surveys.

About Us

PD&MS has been engineering solutions in the energy industry and beyond since 2002. Our ability to combine innovative ideas with technical expertise sets us apart. A flexible, full-service provider committed to supporting the energy transition, we deliver high-quality project work across the entire lifecycle of assets within the oil and gas, renewables, and nuclear sectors. But whoever we work with, it’s the energy, professionalism, and purpose of our people that really makes the difference.

Be who you’re meant to be, with PD&MS

We firmly believe in a work culture in which individual differences are a source of collective strength and pride; everybody can perform to the best of their abilities and on a level playing field; and all colleagues feel they’re part of our team and their voices will be heard. We’re already heartened by the diversity within our organisation, but we recognise that there’s always more we can do to improve further. We welcome applications from all persons regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran, or disability status.


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