OT & Instrumentation Expert

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The Air Liquide Africa Middle East India & Kazakhstan (AMEI) Cluster Industrial Direction - Asset & Technology team is seeking a highly skilled and experienced OT & Instrumentation Expert to lead / contribute to the deployment of Asset & Technology strategic roadmaps programs and best practice in the domain of instrumentation and operational technology.

This role is crucial to the clusters industrial performance (in process safety reliability and efficiency) functioning as a technical lead and interface between Cluster Operations Industrial Projects Procurement engineering & technology vendors and group technical experts.

Support and guide cluster operations compliance to Group (GTs) / Industrial Standards and help devise maturity roadmaps to reach industrial best practices.

Lead and / or participate in technology evaluation and selection considering total cost of ownership.

Participate in supplier evaluation and audits ensuring supplier technical compliance capacity and capability for support throughout the life of assets.

Provide technical support to Cluster Operations to implement asset integrity strategies supporting safety reliability and efficiency targets.

Propose or review proposals for implementing or integrating new technologiestools methods and procedures while adhering to management of change process.

Participate in the development of project feasibility ensuring that system maintainability operability and cybersecurity and relevant standards are respected.

Interpret regulatory requirements Group Industrial Policy and IMS documents to implement and maintain compliant operations within the OT and Instrumentation domain.

Participate in the AMEI cluster incident review process at the request of the reliability team and proposed continuous improvement actions.

Lead and / or participate in selected incident investigations ensuring appropriate Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and capitalization of lessons learned.

Provide leadership and guidance to drive continuous improvement for process safety related to OT and Instrumentation.

Support the development of selected risk assessments for new and existing assets and the implementation of subsequent action plans.

Support selected local and Group level IMS audits as a technical auditor for the OT and Instrumentation field and provide technical assistance to address audit findings.

Review and evaluate proposed changes to existing plants via the Management of Change (MOC) process and ensuring technical validation and assessment of proposed mitigations.

Ensure subsidiary compliance with directives from Air Liquide Group related to OT and Instrumentation.

Provide relevant technical expertise in the identification proposal appraisal and selection of relevant technologies to meet project objectives including consideration of overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reliability and efficiency.

Participate or lead in defining clear technical scopes of work as input for sourcing and project implementation.

Provide operations support within the domain of OT and Instrumentation on complex troubleshooting.

Issue lessons learned to prevent recurrence of incidents.

Work closely with entity engineering disciplines to ensure the latest technology is identified and deployed.

When requested review plant level operating procedures (SOP) for scope technical accuracy and best practice identification.

Be aware of Group initiatives for OT and Instrumentation from the Group Industrial Direction SIS and others. Provide interpretation to entities for implementation and participate in the development of such programs.

Work in a collaborative manner with entities and group functions.

Mentor and support developing employees to expand knowledge sharing.

Encourage clear and consistent communication participation and consensus building with Industrial Asset & Technology customers (Industrial Projects Key Programs and Operations) ensuring adequate handover and ownership of program / project deliverables.

5 - 10 years of process industry experience.

5 years of experience in programmable control system specification configuration networking commissioning and technical support preferably with a mix of control systems but at least expert level in one DCS system.

Field experience in industrial control and automation.

Excellent writing skills including writing project proposals estimates control narratives and scope definitions.

Experience with Virtual Operating Systems.

Instrumentation / Electrical Light Current

B. Degree in Electronic / Control Systems / Instrumentation & Control / Computer Engineering

Ability to read and develop functional diagrams.

Knowledge of advanced control techniques.

Practical understanding of computer networking and cyber security.

Familiarity with industrial…