Team Leader, Control & Automation Borouge

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Technical Support

• Review suggestions for modifications to existing BGS, Standard Drawings, and Philosophies from DDC or Project Consultants for Technical Projects, ensuring alignment with Borouge's standards and requirements.
• Determine requirements and keep track of past design-related issues, lessons learned, and design change approvals, ensuring continuous improvement and knowledge retention.
• Supervise and assign participation in the preparation of specifications and drawings, advising Engineering Standards/Specifications to relevant stakeholders, ensuring accurate and efficient documentation.
• Review and approve the Engineering design and material for modification and renovation projects in the plant and building facilities, ensuring compliance with Borouge's standards.
• Review SPIR and Bill of Material (BOM) for newly installed equipment, confirming availability in EDMS and SAP, ensuring proper inventory management.
• Provide guidance and advice on Instrumentation & Automation, and design and selection aspects for projects, studies, proposals, upgrades, modifications, modernizations, revamps, expansions, and repairs, ensuring technical excellence.
• Review and draft requirements for technology selection, vendor selection, design, installation and implementation of state of the art Control & Automation related to requirements of Operating Plants.
• Provide advice on actions to be taken on technical issues related to Instrumentation, Automation and Control, and determine solutions with concerned personnel.

Automation & Control Reliability

• Contribute to the proper cascade of Borouge OIC (Operation Integrity Committee) Presentations, Safety critical procedures, and lessons learned from other Assets or ADNOC OPCOs to the team on a regular basis, ensuring knowledge sharing and safety compliance.
• Participate in system failure root cause analysis, approving modifications for equipment to improve efficiency and maintenance strategy, ensuring operational reliability.
• Review the implementation of Engineering and other Systems Minor Changes for maintenance for reliability improvement, ensuring continuous enhancement of systems.
• Ensure 100% operability and availability of all relevant systems and equipment with proper planning and analysis, ensuring uninterrupted operations.
• Review the log of On-call and daily activities with prominence on certifying quality and validating the technical report on abnormal conditions prepared by teams, ensuring accurate reporting.

Projects Engineering

• Play a key role in finalizing, reviewing, and evaluating engineering packages for new projects; participate in S.O.R & scope-related studies, Basic and Detail Design Studies, Technology selection, Hazop and SIL study, Factory Acceptance & Site Acceptance Tests (FAT/SAT) covering Automation and Control aspects, ensuring project success.
• Review FEED and EPC engineering specifications to ensure the design facilitates and meets plant performance and reliability requirements cost-effectively, ensuring project alignment with Borouge's goals.
• Provide support and assign resources for Technical Evaluation of Studies, Major and Minor Project Bids (FEED and EPC), Vendor pre-qualification, Bidder evaluation, FEED and EPC Project personnel evaluation including technical interviews and selection, ensuring proper resource allocation.
• Raise Contract Requests and Work Service Orders for Project-related jobs, evaluate, and provide technical recommendations on design and scope changes leading to variations and claims, and provide support to related departments in evaluating claim costs, ensuring financial control.
• Ensure using company-approved vendor s list for new project equipment, participate in pre-commissioning/commissioning and performance testing of control and automation systems, and review test results and advise acceptance, ensuring quality assurance.
• Through projects, engage in dialogue with vendors for resolving post-commissioning problems and fine-tuning all Automation and Control related equipment, ensuring smooth operations.
• Coordinate instrumentation and control interfaces between existing systems and ongoing projects to ensure optimum system design and smooth pre-commissioning changeover.
• Closely, monitor and control of Automation and Control in Turnaround activities including planning, material, resource availability, safe execution and close out, and review and evaluate bids submitted by contractors or by engineers for coverage and technical content.

Maintenance Support

• Lead to investigate major plant incidents, ensuring root cause identification and corrective actions, maintaining plant safety.
• Screen and approve eMOCs technically, ensuring proper management of changes and compliance with Borouge's standards.
• Provide input for budget preparation and assist in implementation, ensuring financial control and alignment with Borouge's goals.
• Investigate variances to support performance and cost control, ensuring efficient operations and cost-effectiveness.
• Evaluate technical feedback for work orders, preparing action plans for corrective measures, ensuring continuous improvement.
• Control and optimize preventive vs. corrective maintenance costs, aligning with Borouge's objectives and ensuring cost-efficiency.

Policies, Systems, Processes & Procedures

• Implement approved policies, processes, and standards, supporting the execution of work programs and ensuring compliance with Borouge's guidelines.
• Update systems strategy and work instructions, ensuring alignment with industry standards and Borouge's requirements.
• Participate in reviews of Borouge standard documents related to systems, ensuring consistency and accuracy.
• Maintain backups for all Automation systems, ensuring data integrity and system reliability.
• Ensure OT systems compliance with cybersecurity policies, protecting Borouge's information and infrastructure.
• Track performance of security measures, ensuring the protection of Automation Systems and maintaining operational security.