Job Overview:

The lead is responsible for complete deployment of Digital Twin and associated solution for Operations & Maintenance of offshore Platforms. The EPCI Digital Project Lead will be responsible for championing digital execution in EPCI projects within the oil and gas industry, utilizing AVEVA suite of applications Unified Engineering and Smart Plant. This role involves collaborating with business functions to identify and implement productivity improvements and acting as a liaison between IT and business functions for digitalization initiatives. The candidate will communicate effectively with various organizational levels, including executive leadership, project management, and functional SMEs, to identify KPIs for project delivery and ensure their alignment and benefit realization within the overall EPCI processes. They will implement systems to publish dashboards for tracking, monitoring, and actioning KPI data, digitize inputs and outputs at each EPCI process stage, and aggregate lessons learned from previous digital solutions.

Our ingenuity fuels daily life. Together, we’ve forged some of the most trusted partnerships across the energy value chain to make what was once just an idea a reality: laying subsea infrastructure thousands of feet below sea level, installing platforms hundreds of miles from shore, using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure, and reshaping the onshore landscape to deliver the energy products the world needs safely and sustainably.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Lead the overall Digital integration and delivery requirement as per Digital SOW of project
• Work with client, Software vendor, internal IT & Digital resources
• Implement and optimize digital tools to enhance project efficiency and delivery
• Facilitate information flow between disciplines for consistent data, efficiency gains, and reduced non-quality costs
• Provide technical support and training on digital tools to project teams
• Report to the digital steering committee on the advances made with digital tools
• Develop processes to ensure consistent and accurate data capture for a true digital twin
• Stay updated on the latest digital engineering tools and technologies
• Work with partners and clients to get insights and share ours with the wider digital world within the industry for continual improvement
• Work with relevant functions to keep corporate procedures and processes up to date with respect to digital execution

Essential Qualifications and Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field, with a focus on a specific engineering domain to ensure a strong understanding of the engineering data flow between disciplines
• Has used both AVEVA suite of applications including Aveva Unified Engineering and Hexagon SmartPlant suite of application
• Good understanding of Analytics applications
• Good knowledge of application integration, data management and presentation of Analytical Dashboards
• Comes from an engineering and construction background, in the energy industry
• Strong technical background in the oil and gas industry, Engineering & Digital with a comprehensive understanding of EPCI processes across all disciplines and functions
• Conversant with information exchange between operating functions and have at least 5 years of experience in Oil & Gas EPCI Project Digital Solutions delivery, focusing on systems, work processes, and digitalization
• Exposure to Aveva and Hexagon suite of applications is strongly desirable, along with a good understanding of analytics applications, application integration, data management, and analytical dashboards presentation
• Good exposure to integration, interfaces, KPIs development, Data Extraction, modification and ingestion in the right tool through various interface technologies and standards
• Requires a candidate with a strong technical background in the industry and a deep understanding of the full EPCI process, engineering workflow between disciplines to drive digital execution effectively

Below experience is highly desirable.

• Experience in Detail Engineering for Automation and Process control for Oil & gas industries or equivalent on DCS, ICSS Control System, etc. Integration & interfaces of data from automation products of companies like Emerson, ABB, Siemens, Yokogawa, etc.
• Familiar with IT/OT Network, interface, Security architecture, Zoning Concepts, Firewalls, Virtualization, SCADA, Data Historian, Asset Management System, etc.
• Worked with Process team for sharing the inputs to Control system vendor on projects for developing DCS/ESD Control narratives, Integration/Interfaces Requirement and detailed design document and other equivalents, Operator Training Simulation / Operator Advisory System. Etc.
• Led Digital Transformation EPCIs of comprehensive Integrated Control & Safety Systems -ICSS. Managed multiple EPCI Projects including FEED, concept design, sensors, metering, integrated control systems for Plants and/or offshore platforms handling digital aspects of wellheads, Process plants, metering & block valve stations, , DCS, PLC-RTU-SCADA, gas distribution, control centers, client locations, etc.)
• Manage design approval, specifications and standardization of I&C, PLC-SCADA, and DCS systems, OT-IT interface architecture across multi-location Offshore Platform projects. Have expertise in drafting, reviewing and approval of high-level engineering documents (P&IDs, C&E diagrams, system architecture, logic diagrams, I/O list, MTOs, SOWs, , etc.), ensuring optimal instrument and control system integration.
• Preparation of ICSS Specifications based on Client’s Standards and International standards. Worked on ICSS Deliverables like System Architecture, Typical loop, Cabinet Drawings, Cable schedule, FAT and SAT Procedures, Etc. Its integration with Layer 3, Layer 4 systems, ERP, Etc
• Should have led and managed Instrumentation tie in work to control systems between the Operating company, EPC contractor and Vendors for optimal operating production facilities.
• Lead and manage all aspects of Instrument Control Systems and OT- IT architecture integration and EPCI of the Project- end to end, deliverables as needed in the digital Twin Scope. Led Installation & checkout of the ICSS and DCS system and responsible for handover to the client.
• Exposure to Factory Acceptance Test, Site Acceptance Tests, Cyber Security compliance, Site installation review. Startup optimization and control system tuning
• Must be well familiar with construction, pre-commissioning, and commissioning phases of offshore platform and Tie-Ins and associated Digital Applications.