Instrument - Maintenance Technician
Job Description
A career in productions & operations is an opportunity to help shape the future of bp. As part of the team, you’ll apply digital technologies and an agile attitude as we transform our operating assets in pursuit of our net zero ambition. You’ll also help to develop hydrocarbon resources, delivering transformative projects and growing your talent in all kinds of new and exciting ways within the operational heart of bp.
We are currently recruiting Maintenance Technicians (Instrument) to work on our offshore facilities.
These roles will be required to work a rotation aligned to BP North Sea rotational pattern.
Key Responsibilities
• Safely maintaining wide aspects of instrumentation/measurement and control, safety and
protection systems.
• Demonstrating HSE leadership within the maintenance team.
• For following and full compliance with all safety, environmental and regulatory rules
applicable and Control of Work requirements.
• For identifying and knowing the tools, materials, and procedures prior to the execution of
work.
• For supporting maintenance planning.
• As an Isolating Authority – safely isolating/deisolating plant equipment within the discipline
as well as designing isolations to the required standard.
• As the Performing Authority to align with and create and vital risk assessments within the
Control of Work Procedure.
• As the maintenance work Performing Authority to conduct a walk-down of the proposed
equipment isolations prior to any work commencing.
• For efficient execution of work and continuously improve execution performance.
• For identifying all risks associated with any assigned work prior to execution of the work
and for the safe and efficient execution of the work.
• For recording of pertinent work order information to support a culture of reliability and
continuous improvement (failure reporting, work method improvements, work activity
duration, request for master data changes, lessons learned, etc.)
• For close-out / completion of the work in compliance with the Control of Work Standards,
including the clean-up of work sites and the returning of unused materials to the storeroom.
• To communicate job progress to the MTL to ensure productivity and improve wrench time
when there is inefficient planning or a break and opportunities within the schedule.
• For delivering safe, quality, and reliable maintenance in alignment with BP values.
Essential education:
Tertiary/vocational education in technical field or other relevant qualifications
Essential experience and requirements
• Recognized Instrument and control apprenticeship
• Proven years of post-apprenticeship experience working in gas, oil or petrochemical
processing plant.
• Experience in PLC, turbine and compressor control systems.
• Experience in LV and utility system isolations
• Experience of field I/O devices, Process Automation and Safety Instrumented Systems
• Experience of F&G / Metering / Analytical / Telecom equipment
• Experience in rotating equipment protection systems.
• Experience in CompEx / Hazardous Area certification / ATEX
• Experience in Computerised Maintenance Management systems.
• Experience with Control of Work systems, operations integrity, planning and risk
assessments.
• Capability to engage with vendors and engineers for support and feedback.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully fault find and diagnose within discipline.
• Willingness to work at heights or in confined space
• Ability to work in plant locations that may be remote (on/offshore) or require special
transportation requirements (e.g. helicopter, marine vessel, rotational work, etc.)