▪ Deliver on the ambition of Spirit Energy to be sustainably top quartile for safe and reliable operations ▪ This role drives equipment and system availability and reliability, for their discipline, through proactive mitigation of equipment and system degradation, active support to front line operations and development of tactics and plans for medium to long term. ▪ Manage and drive engineering management of change ▪ Provide discipline specific technical engineering expertise, governance and assurance to both operated assets and projects. ▪ Escalation route for asset facing discipline engineers to resolve asset operations and maintenance issues (including shutdowns) ensuring continued safe, reliable and environmentally responsible operations. Acts as the asset and project technical authorisation for their discipline While this job description reflects the role at Grade F it's expected that the role can also be performed at Grade G depending on the individual's skills, experience (breadth and depth) and ongoing development).
Role Deliverables and Responsibilities
General ▪ Develop MoC problem statements into an engineering statement of requirements and basis of design ▪ Work with approved 3rd parties to develop design of MoC ▪ Discipline expertise and assurance for troubleshooting escalated operational issues, failure and incident investigation, identifying root cause and improvements to prevent future occurrence. ▪ Provide support for asset facing discipline engineers - act as a conduit between Team Leaders, Principal Engineers, performance standards and front-line engineers and technicians to ensure solutions are best practice and to improve deliver of safe operations. ▪ Is the escalation point for maintenance, operations and Projects, discipline specific, technical queries ▪ Identify and implement solutions for escalated and complex repairs, ensuring adherence to standards and engineering processes, approve any MoC that is required for engineer specified repairs. ▪ Be the competent engineer for discipline in the mid-long term planning and execute process. Specifically, defining discipline details to the 180-day plus asset plan; and then delivering any engineering aspects of that plan ▪ Responsible for the identification, management and assurance of specialist vendors ▪ Assure that any plant management of change within the discipline is delivered within the gated MoC process (CEU-ENG-GEN-STA-0026) ▪ Provide discipline engineering expertise and validation for risk assessment processes including deferral, operational risk assessment (ORA), and permit to work. ▪ Execute any engineering delegation of authority assigned under the Engineering Delegation of Authority Standard, CEU-ENG-GEN-STA-0056. Is the expert and authority for the application of regulatory controls, systems, policies and principles for their discipline ▪ Approve specific discipline shutdown scopes through definition, planning and execution. Role delivers across all assets.
Working with People / Leadership
▪ Proactively maintains their technical and interpersonal skills and competencies, ensuring capabilities are up to date and in line with industry/functional best practice and that behaviours are in line with Spirit's core Values. Understand the skills, competencies and behaviours required for their role. ▪ Collaborates effectively, adapting their behaviour and communication as needed to get the best from others. Effectively promotes ideas and opinions and is able to influence others in a constructive way. Maintains good relationships across all organisation levels. ▪ Presents and articulates ideas and arguments effectively, projects credibility and conviction, handles objection and incorporates others' ideas as appropriate. Makes / proposes informed decisions having consulted widely. ▪ Is familiar with and adheres to Spirit Energy's people policies and procedures.
Performance Management & Development
▪ Is accountable for their performance and delivery against objectives. Agrees their objectives in a timely fashion, assertively expresses what they need from others to be successful, takes on feedback and learns from their failures. ▪ Lives the Values and is a strong advocate of the Spirit Energy culture - understands and role models the behaviours expected. ▪ Provides clear, honest and constructive feedback, both positive and developmental, to colleagues, team members and others when requested. Be open to feedback received and incorporate into their development. ▪ Owns their development plan and discusses it regularly with their manager and L&D. Strives for continuous learning and development of their competencies, skills and behaviours.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
▪ Recognises bias, conscious or unconscious, and actively works to eliminate this from their approach to their work and colleagues. ▪ Eliminates the use of language that may leave others feeling excluded or discriminated against. Positively participates in discussion and collaboration on D&I in their teams and amongst peers, which persuades and brings positive change when needed. ▪ Treats all people equally and with consideration of protected characteristics and has an understanding of Spirit's ED&I policies.
Competencies
▪ Embeds Spirit Energy's Values and associated behaviours into their everyday work and interactions, continuously learning and developing associated competencies and behaviours. ▪ Great communication skills that informs/shares knowledge clearly and unambiguously and also implements and embeds change. Builds rapport and is able to influence in a constructive way / skilled at influencing decision makers on complex topics. ▪ Proven ability to work collaboratively, within their team and across the organisation and externally as required. ▪ Networks effectively internally and externally, creating an immediate, positive and credible impression on others. Leads other parties in conversations on the important issues and use persuasive contributions to influence change and action.
Key Technical Skills
Describe the key technical skills required to perform the role and articulate the breadth and depth of the requirement as appropriate ▪ Expert working knowledge and highly skilled in the application of relevant UK oil and gas industry regulations, in particular Control & Instrumentation Regulations. ▪ Deep expert knowledge with the breadth of experience of one or more of: o General industrial, instruments and controls. Fiscal and environmental metering equipment and fiscal regulations and obligations o Cyber security, best practice and methodology. Telecoms ▪ Knowledge of and ability to use forms of engineering documentation, for example P&IDS and single line diagrams. ▪ SAP Experience, particularly SAP PM ▪ Ability to resolve complex problems and drives innovative solutions. ▪ Demonstrate an expert understanding of engineering principles and practical application. ▪ Ability to interact effectively at all levels and encourage teams across core crew and subcontractors. ▪ Maintain and continue to develop the competencies necessary to carry out the role to the required standard whilst in position. ▪ Conducts all activities in a safe and effective manner and raises safety and environmental issues immediately and in line with corporate policy.
▪ Significant relevant experience in the oil and gas or process industries, in particular the field of control and instrumentation engineering. ▪ Demonstrated experience of providing engineering support to frontline operations in an oil and gas or chemicals manufacturing (top tier COMAH). ▪ Had wide exposure to diverse and technical and business environments. Is a recognized expert in their field.
Mandatory Training required
▪ All Spirit Energy mandatory training as requested, including Compliance training usually provided annually.
Please refer the Job Description and Person Specification on Pipeline for Job Details and Job Dimensions.
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
