**What does the job involve?**:Responsible for operating and monitoring automated control systems used in energy production. Involves monitoring equipment, analysing data, troubleshooting operational issues, and ensuring that systems operate according to established procedures. Diagnose issues that arise and perform necessary adjustments or repairs. Responsible for adhering to safety protocols, and continuously optimizing the energy production processes through automation.
You are utilizing your knowledge in a specific area to carry out tasks that have a short-term operational impact/risk. You independently complete assigned work, either with guidance or by following well-defined guidelines and procedures, in order to achieve targets set by others that have an impact on your immediate team. You effectively communicate facts, practices, and policies to individuals within your immediate team and occasionally with external parties. You adhere to established procedures, identify and resolve challenges, seek continuous improvement, embrace change and ambiguity, and demonstrate flexibility to adopt new activities and ways of working. You follow and comply with safety, ethics, and compliance requirements and align with leadership expectations and company values. Full band description can be found on Insight.
**What will my tasks be?**:
Within this position, your key tasks will be to:
- Ensure that maintenance management is followed by identifying and reporting malfunctions in SAP, executing work orders, and providing proper conclusion feedback. Collaborating to maintenance plan review.
- Manage competence requirements fulfillment for the team in alignment with contractor’s company reps and ensure that vendors and contractors work safely and effectively, according to the values and culture of the company.
- Be responsible for troubleshooting and field repair of Fire and Gas systems and provide technical support for fiscal metering matters. This involves using diagnostic tools and techniques to identify the root cause of the problem and proposing appropriate solutions.
- Participate on engineering and construction phase of new projects, inside or outside Brazil.
- Propose changes in practices and plans to improve reliability and efficiency of Automation systems (Honeywell DCS) and telecom and metering equipment.
- Supervise team members (Instrument, Metering and Automation Technicians) and provide recommendations and technical support on instrument and automation reviews, strategic plans, and projects.
- Be a role model for digitalization, including the use of Digital fieldworks and condition-based maintenance.
- Coordinate activities and discipline personnel according to the plan and priorities set by the leader, ensuring efficient utilization of resources and effective collaboration within the team.
- Conduct quality assurance activities and assessing the risk of equipment failures, ensuring that equipment is maintained and operated in a safe and reliable manner. Coordinating the onshore shipment of equipment for repairs when necessary.
- Keep track of all maintenance tasks within the automation field, ensuring that operational requirements are met in accordance with governing documentation and company procedures.
**Here's what we expect from you**:
At Equinor, there are some overall qualities we regard as essential. We want you to identify with the values that guide our decisions and help us succeed and grow: open, collaborative, courageous and caring. We expect you to make safety your priority and to contribute to our zero-harm culture. And for this specific position, we are also looking for:
- Desirable Automation Engineer or required technical degree with emphasis in automation, instrument, or electronics. Valid registration on class order.
- Minimum 3 years as an Automation Supervisor on board production facilities.
- Good verbal and written Portuguese language and Intermediate English language skills is required.
- Efficient in use of maintenance management systems, preferably SAP and efficient in using office computer systems.
- Strong knowledge of distributed controls system, instrumentation (control valves and process variables), Fire & Gas systems and familiarized with telecommunication equipment, IT networks, data capture to store and virtual servers.
- Technical knowledge to read and interpret technical drawings, Cause and Effect matrix, P&ID’s and sequence diagrams.
- Embraces cooperation and open collaboration as essential ways of working. Proactive by nature, takes initiative and can work independently as needed. Gives and receives constructive feedback and is motivated by continuous improvement.
- Strong knowledge and experience working on Honeywell DCS and Autronica F&G system, Mark VI, Turbomachinery CCC and familiarized with Fiscal metering systems.
- Knowledge and experience of working with new digital solutions such as online condition monitoring (Bently Nevada), Valve watch (Valve link),