Instrument Engineering Specialist – Oil & Gas

About the role

Airswift is looking for an Instrument Engineering Specialist to support a major oil and gas company in Qatar. The role covers instrumentation and fire‑and‑gas engineering activities from EPC through startup to handover, ensuring safety, reliability and maintainability of the facility.

Key responsibilities

• Provide engineering support for Instrument and Fire & Gas (F&G) systems, including design reviews, SIL workshops, HAZOP assessments, commissioning and startup.
• Develop and implement surveillance and administration programs for critical systems to achieve high reliability, availability and cyber security.
• Define best practices, recommend performance improvements and document procedures.
• Prepare work plans and schedules to meet division KPIs.
• Offer technical input to other disciplines and supervise contractors, consultants and service providers.
• Guide junior engineers on integrity and reliability systems.
• Maintain an Issue Register to identify and resolve critical issues and new technology risks.
• Support high‑risk commissioning activities, perform system surveillance, tuning and optimization, and advise Operations and Maintenance.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in the oil and gas sector.
• Strong knowledge of safety instrumented systems (SIL) and reliability principles.

Required skills

• Instrumentation engineering
• Fire & Gas (F&G) systems
• DCS (Distributed Control Systems)
• PLC programming and troubleshooting
• ESD/F&G systems
• Anti‑Surge Control Systems
• Metering Systems
• Turbine and Compressor Control Systems
• SIL (Safety Integrity Level) requirements