- Undertakes responsibility for subject area management of technical integrity
- Advises critical activities requiring fire and gas detection knowledge and expertise.
- Provides daily technical support to instrument technicians and supervisors.
- Provides technical support on fire and gas applications to process control, operations, and process safety functional groups.
- Provide support to the AHJ for Fire Protection and Life Safety.
- Provides technical mentorship in resolving priority and scope of equipment repairs
- Leads/participates root-cause-analysis failure investigations for fire and gas incidents
- Analyzes equipment supervising data and develops appropriate response to reliability issues
- Generates PPMs for fire and gas instrumentation
- Reviews engineering projects and improvements to ensure compliance with refinery standards, national electric codes, NFPA, API and other applicable industry standards
- Participates in Layer of Protection Analysis and Hazard and Operability Study evaluations and drives implementation of resulting actions in the Fire and Gas subject area
- Completes engineering design and documentation for small refinery improvement and modification projects
- Assists in developing and maintaining fire and gas and safety standards
- Develops and leads reliability projects for refinery fire and gas systems
- Prepares engineering datasheets & drawing work and material/equipment order specifications
- Reviews supplier data and witnesses Site Acceptance Test / Factory Acceptance Test (SAT/FAT), and writes material requisitions
- Advises the efforts of design engineering and construction contractors
- Maintains the facility fire and gas specification sheets, Cause and Effect Diagrams and jointly maintains the P&IDs with process engineering
- Develop and handle obsolescence for fire and gas systems
- Develop and handle lifecycle plans for fire and gas systems to ensure their maintainability and optimize plant operations. Regularly supervise and benchmark equipment KPIs and performance.
- Conduct feasibility studies for new installations and replacement of existing instruments and fire & gas equipment, including technical evaluations, specifications, and materials for modifications.
Must have educational qualifications:
Must have certifications:
Must Have Experience:
- Total years of experience: 8-12 years of refining (or similar industry) experience.
- Minimum 5 years working in an end-user/owner role in the refining (or similar) industry - At least 3 years of Fire Protection engineer experience.
- Conversant with NFPA 72, IEC 60079, ISA 84 TR.00.007. Knowledge of industry codes, guidelines and regulatory standards to include NEC, ISA, NFPA, and API
- Risk parameters affected by FGS (Risk Concepts used in FGS Engineering, ETA, F&G Consideration in LOPA).
- Detector Coverage Assessment.
- Selection of FGS Instruments based on Performance requirements .
- FGS safety availability calculation.
- Computer proficiency in standard desktop software.
- Understanding of applicable regulatory requirements during design, installation, commissioning, operation and maintenance of Fire and Gas Systems.
- Experience with aspiration systems, industrial hazardous applications, PLC based control systems, SCADA.
- Experience with fire and gas equipment design, specification, installation, repair & maintenance.
- Experience with Siemens and Honeywell fire and gas PLC s.
- Technical knowledge of fire and gas system engineering calculations, construction methods, and materials.
- Validated understanding of, and ability to provide mentorship on various suppression type fire protection systems.
Good to have experiences/skills (Can be trained for - learning/on-the-job)
- Understanding of bp group practices for fire and hazard analysis
- Knowledgeable in cause-and-effect diagrams
- Sophisticated knowledge and ability to address fire and gas alarm systems.
