The OQ Instrument Engineer Job in Sohar centres on engineering and technical support for refinery instrumentation maintenance, reliability and troubleshooting. The work also covers minor plant modifications and coordination with maintenance teams, contractors, vendors and suppliers.
It suits experienced professionals with a relevant bachelor’s degree and 5–7 years of experience. Strong English is required, and applications are submitted through OQ’s careers website.
What You Will Handle
Working within the Assets Management instrument function, you will support the refinery’s instrumentation systems and maintenance activities. The scope combines preventive work, technical troubleshooting, calibration oversight and reliability improvement.
- Implement preventive-maintenance plans within the instrument section.
- Direct, supervise and control instrument-maintenance and calibration work.
- Coordinate troubleshooting and repair work on distributed logic controllers.
- Undertake emergency shutdown-valve testing and maintenance activities.
- Supervise the troubleshooting and tuning of complex control loops.
- Oversee programming work involving programmable logic controllers.
- Study plant-modification and improvement proposals.
- Conduct HAZOP studies for new plant modifications.
- Coordinate maintenance activities and deliverables with contractors, vendors and suppliers.
- Manage instrument spares, maintenance reports, procedures and technical evaluations.
These responsibilities require attention to both daily maintenance needs and planned technical improvements. You will be involved in work that connects instrumentation performance, process safety and maintenance documentation.
Technical Knowledge And Skills
OQ is seeking knowledge across instrumentation maintenance, control equipment and safety systems. The required skill areas cover both technical analysis and the planning needed to manage maintenance and improvement work.
- Instrument-maintenance best practices
- Control valves and flowmeters
- CMMS and SAP-PM
- Functional safety, SIL and ESD instrumentation
- Troubleshooting and root-cause analysis
- Engineering-drawing interpretation
- Project management
- HSE and process-safety planning
You must have excellent written, reading and spoken English. Native Arabic is desirable rather than required.
How to Apply
- Review the role details and confirm that your education, relevant experience and English ability meet OQ’s requirements.
- Update your CV to show your instrumentation maintenance, control-system, troubleshooting and process-safety experience clearly.
- Use the official application button provided by GluJob below this article and check the current vacancy status on OQ’s careers site.
- Sign in or create an account, complete OQ’s application form and provide the information requested by the employer.
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Source: OQ
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