Senior Metering Technician

What you will do

Johnson Controls UK&I are currently recruiting for a Senior Metering Technician to join our offshore Oil and Gas Metering team based in Aberdeen. The role is accountable for offshore metering systems through routine preventative and corrective maintenance. As a member of the maintenance team, you will be located offshore for 156 days per year and take accountability for the fiscal, allocation, environmental gas, and liquid systems.

How you will do it

• Ownership of metering data within Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and submitting change requests where required. Actively highlighting issues and suggesting/implementing improvements.

• Ownership of 3rd Party metering management software (MMS), ensuring that any issues are resolved and communicated back to onshore metering engineer

• Maintain Primary / Secondary equipment & Quality Analysers against procedures, standards, and uncertainties in accordance with CMMS / 3rd Party MMS schedules and plans. Provide feedback on improvement opportunities

• Assist operations team with isolation of metering equipment with a view to gaining full independent isolating authority status

• Carry out reinstatement of equipment and post job operations, including performing calculations, highlighting potential mismeasurements, data validation, documentation upkeep and reporting. Completion of work orders / instructions / logbooks in a timely manner with detailed work history

• Perform and record daily metering checks including trend checking to ensure health of metering systems. Report any potential issues to onshore engineer in a timely manner and highlight any improvements/efficiencies.

• Be responsible for the safe start-up of measurement systems & analysers after an outage bringing them to a fully operational state without any damage / contamination to the equipment

• Be responsible to shut down measurement systems to a safe controlled condition for an outage to ensure that the equipment /analysers are not damaged.

• Fully responsible for ensuring that sufficient certified Field & test equipment is available offshore to complete the metering maintenance plans. All Field & test equipment should be safely shipped onshore for recertification within a timely manner and equipment trackers kept up to date.

• Management of 3rd party personnel and vendors at site, ensuring that work is carried out safely as per the agreed scope.

• Carry out comprehensive end of trip handovers and ensure that information given to you is accurate. Action findings from previous handovers in a timely manner

• Ensure that areas within your responsibility are maintained to a professional clean standard. Perform regular housekeeping at metering stations.

• The ability to mentor and coach other metering personnel and platform personnel, where required

• Ability to safely carry out manual sampling on gas and liquid systems

• Demonstrate a full understanding and adhere to client safety systems and procedures

• Lead personnel during measurement audits and identify key areas for improvement and compliance, including elimination of audit points

• Ability to perform internal system audits to ensure compliance with relevant standards

• Deal promptly and effectively with equipment faults, defects and error messages within your control, and report those that cannot be resolved

• Carry out extensive fault finding on problematic equipment, with proposed solutions & improvement opportunities

• Ownership and execution of work plan including raising own PTW and associated documentation in a timely manner

• Early identification, data capture and communication of measurement issues including assistance of mismeasurement reporting and completion of mismeasurement reports

• Good communication skills and the ability to maintain effective working relationships with personnel at all levels

• Ability to attend external calibrations on behalf of the Client

• Ability to attend FAT testing on behalf of Client

• Ability to Lead SAT of systems offshore

• Ability to provide cover for Metering Engineer in periods of absence

What we look for:

Essential

• HNC in an Engineering subject

• SVQ level 3 in measurement processes is essential

• Advanced knowledge and experience of measurement systems

Preferred

• Apprenticeship in an Engineering subject

• 7+ years of experience within a similar role in the energy sector

• Advance working knowledge of all relevant IP, API, AGA, BS, ISO Standards and codes

• Knowledge of OGA compliance guidelines

If you are successful we can offer you a company culture that promotes work life balance, a commitment to continued learning and development, access to mental health support, a fantastic benefits package which includes a competitive salary, offshore allowance, OT allowance, pension, life assurance, employee assistance program, employee referral scheme, discount on Johnson Controls security products including ADT Smart Home plus voluntary schemes for cycle to work, eye care vouchers and holiday purchase.

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