Instrument & Controls Lead Engineer

Location: Basra, Al Başrah, Iraq

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Title:

Instrument & Controls Lead Engineer

Instrument & Controls Lead Engineer

ECSS40 - Principal Specialist, Commissioning

Rotation: 28/28

KBR Sustainable Technology Solutions (STS) provides holistic and value-added solutions across the entire asset life cycle. These include world-class licensed process technologies, differentiated advisory services, deep technical domain expertise, energy transition solutions, high-end design capabilities, and smart solutions to optimize planned and operating assets.

We are looking for an Instrument & Controls (I&C) Lead for an upcoming project. This role will work with our team of engineers to identify and define solutions that reduce risk and grow installed production capacity. This role will provide Instrument and Controls support for site operations while ensuring safe and effective operations through managing risk, addressing questions, and minor modification activities. The Instrument & Controls Lead Engineer will be responsible for providing immediate front-line support for Operations and Maintenance teams to resolve minor issues and escalate more significant issues to the Central Engineering Team. This role will report to the Area Engineering Support Team Lead and will have I&C Engineers as direct reports.

Responsibilities:

• Production Delivery, Optimisation & Excellent Performance
• Responsible for day-to-day optimization of I&C systems to ensure safe, stable, and efficient process control, including loop tuning, alarm management, and SIS performance monitoring.
• Identifies production vulnerabilities and optimization opportunities to support production forecast and grow IPC.
• Ensure control systems are operated within their design and operating envelopes; any deviations are reported, risk assessed and managed via operational risk assessment processes.
• Lead or support root cause investigations (e.g., 5 Whys, fault tree analysis) for I&C-related process safety incidents, production losses, and product quality issues exceeding defined limits.
• Prioritize I&C vulnerabilities based on risk and production impact, ensuring corrective actions are focused on the highest-priority issues.
• Actively lead Continuous Improvement projects involving instrumentation, automation, and control systems; promote CI philosophy and engage site teams to drive improvement initiatives.

Qualifications:

• Above 10 Years experience in O&G industry (Preferable with IOC’s direct or contract)  Technical degree in Engineering or relevant engineering subject.
• Experience in previous asset engineering / operations engineering role  Practical exposure to production facilities.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and coaching skills  Strong bias for being proactive and getting results.
• Excellent IT skills – Office suite, document management, applications for CMMS and Change Management.
• Contribute to an environment in which all team members are respected regardless of their individual differences and are motivated to improve both their individual and team contributions to achieve desired business results.
• Skilled in behaviour change management Not essential but preferable:  Professional (Chartered) Engineer.
• Experience in roles in culturally and linguistically diverse working environments

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certified Professional Engineer

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