Lead Instrumentation & Control Engineer

Job Purpose

Leadership and Delivery

• Own I&C deliverables, technical integrity, discipline performance, execution strategies, work plans, forecasts, and schedules.
• Lead and mentor engineers and designers and review, approve, and monitor discipline deliverables.
• Interface with project management, clients, operations teams, vendors, OEMs, consultants, and subcontractors.
• Support proposals, technical bid evaluations, manpower estimates, cost forecasting, planning, reporting, and resource management.
• Lead brownfield modifications, debottlenecking studies, facility upgrades, and control system migration initiatives.

Site and Project Activities

• Conduct offshore and onshore site surveys, field verification, data collection, constructability assessments, and brownfield feasibility reviews.
• Develop scopes for site surveys, shutdown campaigns, tie-ins, plant modifications, and control system enhancement projects.
• Participate in FAT, SAT, commissioning, start-up, troubleshooting, procurement, construction, and pre-commissioning activities.
• Monitor progress, budgets, milestones, execution risks, and mitigation actions across project phases.

Technical Deliverables

• Prepare, review, and approve instrument indexes, I/O lists, datasheets, specifications, requisitions, bid evaluations, cable schedules, and control philosophies.
• Coordinate OEM control system adequacy assessments and review adequacy study reports.
• Coordinate with Process, Mechanical, Piping, Electrical, Telecommunications, and other disciplines to integrate design solutions.
• Ensure maintainability, operability, reliability, lifecycle performance, asset integrity, QA/QC, and document quality requirements.

Functional Safety and Standards

• Lead functional safety lifecycle activities in accordance with IEC 61508 and IEC 61511.
• Develop, review, and approve Safety Requirement Specifications and participate in SIL determination, verification, and validation studies.
• Review Safety Instrumented Functions and support functional safety assessments, audits, and regulatory compliance reviews.
• Ensure closure of HAZID, HAZOP, SIL, LOPA, CHAZOP, cybersecurity, and other risk assessment recommendations.
• Apply ADNOC requirements and international standards including IEC, ISA, API, IEEE, NFPA, NACE, ISO, and ATEX/IECEx.

Experience Requirements

• At least 17 years of I&C engineering experience in Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, LNG, or Energy sectors.
• At least 8 to 10 years in a Lead Engineer, Senior Lead Engineer, or equivalent leadership capacity.
• Experience delivering offshore and onshore brownfield and greenfield projects.
• Experience across FEED, detailed engineering, EPC, PMC, construction, and commissioning environments.
• Experience with offshore production facilities, wellhead platforms, central processing facilities, and related infrastructure.
• Experience with ADNOC projects, engineering practices, and technical standards.

Education and Technical Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Instrumentation or Electronics and Communication Engineering, or equivalent.
• Strong expertise in I&C systems, SIS, hazardous-area requirements, DCS, ESD, FGS, PLC, RTU, SCADA, telecommunications interfaces, and field instrumentation.
• Proficiency with AVEVA Instrumentation, SPI, INSTRUCALC, and related I&C engineering tools.
• Control system migration, modernization, and digital transformation experience is desirable.
• Professional certifications in Instrumentation, Automation, or Functional Safety are advantageous.

Site Travel and Certifications

• The selected candidate will travel to ADNOC offshore locations on a rotational basis for surveys, assessments, verification, and engineering data collection.
• OPITO-approved T-BOSIET/BOSIET and H2S certifications valid for at least six months are preferred.