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POSITION SUMMARY
Purpose

Reporting to the Facility Manager, the Instrument Technician is responsible for executing the maintenance schedules of the Air Products Barauni facility.

Working with the guidance of the Facility Manager and alongside the Maintenance Manager and Plant Supervisor to ensure the smooth and reliable operation and maintenance of all aspects of the plant, with the aim of achieving the highest plant reliability and availability, whilst controlling maintenance related costs within the budget.



Nature and Scope


The Barauni Plant is Air Products first fully owned and operated plant in India; it represents a significant investment and includes State of the Art technology which makes it advanced Hydrogen Plant within the Corporation.

The plant consists of 2 main elements: -
1 x Large Technip Steam Methane Reformer (SMR) with Air Products PSAs for H2 purification.
An Air Products Air Separation Unit (ASU) Producing Nitrogen

The scope of maintenance for the Production Plants, equipment and associated systems includes: -
Compressors, Motors, Fans, Pumps (cryogenic and other), Pressure Vessels and piping systems, Relief Valves, Heat exchangers, Furnaces, Burners, Cryogenic turbines, Computer control systems, Trip Systems, Analysis equipment etc.


The customer is Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL), Barauni refinery and the Air Products plant is located within the customers site. The products from the Air Products plants go directly to the customer as part of their refinery expansion. There is a high level of integration between IOCL and Air Products with respect to feedstocks, products and utilities. The products are critical to refinery unit operations.

The plants run on continuous basis and there is a strong emphasis of high reliability and high efficiency with contractual penalties against Air Products for underperformance.

Air Products owns, operates and maintains Hydrogen Plants and ASUs around the globe with Operations in over 50 countries, in excess of 100 hydrogen plants and 350 ASUs. As such we have a wealth of expertise and have well established work processes in place for the reliable and efficient operation of our plants. The Plant Manger will be expected to work closely with the Global Communities of expertise and ensure consistent compliance with these work processes.

Prior to facility operation the individual will have a period of training before plant commissioning begins, where they will have a role setting up the permanent site maintenance team, establishing site procedures and participating in plant commissioning.




Dimensions


Plant Products (Approximate):

H2: 50 KTPA
N2: 4,000 Nm3/h


Number of Direct Reports (approximate): Nil



Principle Responsibilities


Ensuring all planned and unplanned maintenance work is carried out according to Air Products safety procedures, ensuring KPIs are met or exceeded.

Ensure to comply with AP and local safety, health and environment standard, fulfill the mandatory safety requirement and activities: safety training, safety meeting, and all other requirements by AP EH&S and local regulation.

To respond to any major occurrence of plant breakdown where control and instrumentation expertise is required, carry out prompt inspection, analyze the fault, repair and re-commission affected plant and equipment to assure the minimum loss of production. Provide a troubleshooting capability to enable the rapid resolution of plant problems that may affect the safety or productivity of the plant.

There will be a large emphasis on design, specification and configuration of the control system. Experience in programming Siemens PCS7, WinCC, Step 7 DCS is expected.

When supervising contractors and/or Air Products staff, ensure that the work is adequately planned and executed safely at a high level of effectiveness.

Plant Instrumentation & Control Systems (PICS) engineers provide technical engineering support for the production facilities HYCO and Air Separation units. This support will typically take the form of direct technical guidance for Instrumentation Executive, troubleshooting equipment and control system problems, or providing a design capability for plant productivity projects.

Troubleshooting and rectifying equipment upsets and failures in a timely and efficient manner. Monitor the serviceability of plant equipment and facilities and ensure they adhere to safety, housekeeping, and environmental requirements.

Responsible for all instrument and control system equipment regular maintenance and repairing, such as all field instrumentation, valves, flow meter, transmitter, control circuit, monitoring, DCS, PLC, analysers etc.
Response to maintenance requirements that could be scheduled or unscheduled/emergency jobs, on 24/7 base, prompt response to requests for assistance and putting in the time and effort to meet our customers expectations.

To be familiar with all equipments in plants, maintain all maintenance equipments accurate documents integrity and equipment history database reachable.

Provide hand-on technical skills at the troubleshooting and all related maintenance work or supporting work responsible.

Perform preventive maintenance work and support to implement Mechanical Integrity work, troubleshooting, repair for all equipment.

Coordinate or assist of supervision the contractors work in the facility or shop to guarantee safety and quality and reliability.

Provide technical reports through the specified datasheet or checklist.

Reporting-Time entry weekly and prepare technical reports.

Prepare procedure (SWIM) related to calibration of analysers and other trouble shooting activities.



POSITION REQUIREMENTS


B. Tech / BE in Control and Instrumentation engineering/ Electronics & Instrumentation with minimum 5 years as a hands-on maintenance in refinery, ammonia, methanol, chemical process, power generation, Air separation unit or similar.

Will have experience in major shutdown support, project work, plant operations and maintenance efforts.

Ability to read & understand P&IDs, single line diagrams, Hook up drawings & Loop drawings.

Familiarity with process control and communication protocols. Experience with Siemens DCS would be preferable.

Familiarity with Analytical and Emerson Metering system would be highly desirable.

Knowledge of vendor contracts and knowledge of shop support in the region is desirable.

Must be team oriented and have a willingness to learn and further develop technical skills.

Working experience in a gas, petrochemical or chemical refinery, ammonia, methanol, chemical process, power generation, Air separation unit or similar for instrument/control hand on troubleshooting experience in the field at some areas of field instrumentation, valves, flow meter, transmitter, control circuit, monitoring, DCS, PLC etc with basic skills and knowledge in understanding control circuit, wiring and schematic drawing.

Favourable hand on experience at least one of below instrument equipments:
Field valves: Fisher, Samson, Jamesbury/Metso, Severn Glucon, Flowserve, IR valve, NELES-JBURY, VERIFLO, FOXBORO, Flowmeters; Analyzers: SICK, THERMO, TELEDYNE, SERVOMEX, DELTA F, KONTROL, XENTAUR, ABB, SIEMENS, Drager, MSA, Gas Chromatographs; DCS/PLCs: Siemens, GE, ABB, Honeywell; Metering/Measurement System: Emerson Magnetic, DP, Coriolis, Ultrasonic Flowmeters & Flowboss 600.

Good Communication & coordination skills.

Fluent in oral and written English language.



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