Instrument Designer

SUMMARY:
Instrument Designer (Contract), who has extensive experience in the Oil & Gas Industry.

POSITION INFO:
Qualifications:

• In-Tools 6.0 or Higher
• Smart Plant Review
• Microsoft Packages
• 5 Years minimum experience

• Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa

• Technical Design Ability - Under supervision completes technical design work using company and client design methods, standards and data in line with Project requirements. Provision of support to designers.
• Technical Expertise - Possesses proficient levels of technical expertise required to do the job, however continuously work towards improving and updating technical abilities. Will personally seek out opportunities to develop technical knowledge base.
• Cross Discipline Project and Team Interaction - Appreciation of project set up and team structure across disciplines. Under guidance working with other discipline designers.  
• Understanding and meeting schedule and schedule dependencies - Awareness of personal targets for deliverable production and deliverable schedule.
• Commercial Awareness and Customer Focus - Under direction develops the engineering requirement.
• Interpretation of Engineering Requirements - Under direction develops the engineering requirement.

• Produce air distribution schedules and indicate positions of air manifolds on plot plans for drafting by the CAD operator.
• Design the instrument cable block diagrams for drafting by the CAD Operator.
• Produce a cable drum schedule.
• Produce the design guidelines for the cable racking / routing drawings for drafting by CAD Operator.
• Produce a cable schedule from the cable block diagram and project specifications / standards.
• Produce sketches for control room and equipment room layouts for drafting by the CAD Operator.
• Develop the instrument design index based on EFD’s and Instrument Index.
• Produce hand sketches of earthing philosophy diagrams, based on engineering input for drafting by CAD Operator.
• Using the instrument database and project specifications / standards, produce guidelines for the instrument hook-up drawings which are then generated by CAD Operator.
• Using the instrument database and project specifications / standards, produce guidelines for the instrument installation detail drawings.
• Produce instrument location drawings based on the instrument database, EFD’s and plant layout drawings.
• Develop / provide input on the 3D Model to clarify instrument requirements on the model inclusive of cable racking, junction boxes, air headers and field instrument placements.
• Produce instrument loop diagrams and termination schedules utilising the In-Tools database.
• Produce hand drawn power distribution diagrams for back drafting by CAD Operator.
• Provide hand drawn mark-ups for CAD Operator to generate panel layout detail drawings.
• Incorporate instrument supplier data received into instrument design database, termination schedules and loop diagrams.
• Provide mark-ups on mechanical / instrumentation interface drawings for back drafting.
• Provide mark-ups on electrical / instrumentation interface drawings for back drafting.
• Maintain the instrument design database and drawing register in a current project state.
• Produce enquiry requisitions for instrument cable and junction boxes.
• Assist in the preparation of the Instrument contract indirect BOM. 
• Perform equipment, panel and cable inspections.
• Liaise with engineers to ensure design intent is implemented.
• Liaise closely with CAD Operator for the creation and validation of instrument design drawings.
• Resolve site queries relative to the instrument design, obtain redline markups and backdraft documents to As-built status.
• Assist in the preparation of Instrument ‘End of Job’ documentation.
• Perform any other duties assigned within reason by the Principle Instrument Designer / Chief Instrument Engineer