Total Number of Openings
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About the position:
The Instrumented Protective Systems (IPS) Assessor Engineer is part of the Reliability and Integrity team within the Chevron ENGINE Center and will offer comprehensive support of Instrumented Protective Systems in Chevron’s Upstream, Downstream and Midstream facilities across the enterprise. Responsibilities will include tasks involving safeguard performance, and execution of functional assessments associated with the Safety Life Cycle, in addition to supporting facility execution of reliability and integrity tasks associated with instrumented protective systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- IPS Reliability, Integrity & Maintenance Support:
- Provide support of the Operate and Maintain phases of the IPS lifecycle.
- Optimize and improve asset strategies and reliability performance through data-driven decision-making.
- Elevate Business Unit data quality to improve capabilities for analysis and improve facility uptime
- Support functional safety concepts - Functional Safety Assessments, SIL calculations, Independent Protection Layers (IPL) and Safety Instrumented Function (SIF) Allocations, Safety Requirement Specifications
- Technical Services: Deliver technical assistance for typical Instrumented Protective Systems issues. Examples include Analyzing IPS Test results. Verifying SIL levels for Safety Instrumented systems; Supporting the collection; analysis and reporting of activation metrics; Maintaining Safety Requirements Specification (SRS documentation). Supporting change management for IPS. Providing IPS technical support for small capital projects.
- Documentation and Tools: Utilize instrumentation databases and design tools and support various IPS reviews. Examples include Surface Facilities Digital Twin, Maximo, Meridium, JDE, Documentum, Stature (ARA), MANGAN SLM, SMART (14c); Exsilentia; Isograph – Reliability Workbench
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in chemical or electrical engineering (B.Sc./B.Tech.) from a deemed/recognized (AICTE) university
- Strong knowledge of Instrumented Protective Systems and Management of Functional Safety reviews.
- Knowledge and understanding of industry practices and standards applicable to Instrumented Protective Systems (e.g., ISA, IEC, API, etc.).
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to interact with Chevron’s global employee workforce
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5+ years of direct field experience with an owner operator in a hydrocarbon production/processing environment in an Instrumented Protective Systems role
- Experience with Instrumented Protective Systems and Management of Functional Safety concepts – Functional Safety Assessments, SIL calculations, Independent Protection Layers (IPL) and Safety Instrumented Function (SIF) Allocations, Safety Requirement Specifications
- Development and Maintenance of IPS Tools – Mangan, Exsilentia. Working knowledge of data science/analytics
- Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Central Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), Safety Requirement Specifications (SRS), Pre-Startup Safety Review (PSSR), Management of Change (MOC) and Incident Investigation & reporting
- Configuration and system experience with Yokogawa Prosafe, Honeywell Safety Manager, Triconex, DeltaV, SIS
Chevron ENGINE supports global operations, supporting business requirements across the world. Accordingly, the work hours for employees will be aligned to support business requirements. The standard work week will be Monday to Friday. Working hours are 8:00am to 5:00pm or 1.30pm to 10.30pm.
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