Lead, Instrumentation

Role overview

This permanent staff role is based in Doha, Qatar, within a joint venture operating company supporting the Al Shaheen offshore oil and gas field. It is a residential onshore position with a five-day workweek, but it also involves periodic offshore visits as well as trips to contractor offices and facilities.

Job dimensions

• Play a central part in short-term maintenance preparation and execution support, working daily with a broad set of leadership stakeholders and aligning with the 4 months / 5 weeks planning horizon.
• Act as Technical Administrator for Instrument and Metering stock in the INS Lab office, managing equipment inventory valued at $25M.
• Oversee around 7 contracts within the M&I Electrical and Instrumentation Department, representing approximately $6M per year.
• Contribute to annual operating and capital budget planning alongside the Head of Electrical and Instrumentation.
• Approve SAP work orders each day up to $50k in line with Delegation of Authority requirements.
• Work with external parties such as Qatar Petroleum and contractor management teams.

Key responsibilities

• Promote an incident-free workplace by building and sustaining a strong safety culture.
• Help ensure strong HSE results for employees, contractors, and others working under the Maintenance Team Lead, Instrumentation and Metering.
• Make sure all activities under the area of responsibility follow HSE laws, company procedures, and standards to protect people, meet legal obligations, and maintain environmental responsibility.
• Lead cross-discipline maintenance engineers and coordinators so that PPM and CM information is reliable for safe, efficient preparation, planning, execution, and close-out of base operations, campaign work, and shutdown maintenance.
• Provide first-line specialist technical guidance to site and offshore teams on equipment maintenance, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and investigations, involving maintenance engineers and coordinators when needed.
• Deliver technical and administrative support for site base operations, including defining short-term intervention scopes, arranging vendors, and supporting requests for spare parts, tools, procedures, work packs, and work-order resourcing.
• Support campaign and shutdown teams to make sure all instrumentation and metering scopes are ready and delivered according to gate criteria, including work-order resourcing.
• Assess risks for deferred work related to safety-critical and environmental-critical elements under instrumentation and metering.
• Own non-routine maintenance costs for the discipline.
• Own the spare parts stock value for the discipline.
• Develop intervention scopes for major preventive work and complex corrective maintenance.
• Review brownfield modification designs and greenfield project designs with maintainability in mind.
• Define the technical data needed to create, update, block, or remove references under the technical authority, including general specifications, QA/QC requirements, and replenishment parameters such as MRP type and MRP settings, working closely with the Stock Controller.
• Maintain daily communication with NOC-OC T1/T2 teams and support technical and administrative needs as required.
• Join daily video calls with offshore OTLs and discipline supervisors.
• Visit offshore locations regularly to strengthen collaboration and improve understanding of shared objectives and information flow.
• Manage repairs for critical instrument and metering equipment, including visits to local vendor workshops and warehouses.
• Coach and guide direct reports in delivering their duties.
• Optimize the 4 months / 5 weeks plan by coordinating with the planning team and taking part in weekly IOP meetings to ensure gate criteria are met, including spares, vendor mobilization, tooling, shipping, and purchase requisitions.
• Take proactive action on all safety-critical and business-critical backlog items.
• Track how effective maintenance strategies are for plant and equipment maintenance, inspection, and operations.
• Take part in vendor and contractual audits when needed.
• Deliver class 2 modifications, including vendor-based modifications.
• Manage ESDV assurance testing according to inspection instructions.
• Take the lead on repairs, overhauls, and maintenance of all instrument and metering equipment, and drive progress through weekly interdepartmental meetings.
• Ensure certificates for installed instrument and metering equipment gathered during visits are stored in EDMS.
• Ensure certificates for spare parts intended for offshore use are recorded in EDMS by logistics before shipment, where required.
• Make sure new spare parts are linked to the right equipment in PALM through the BOM structure.
• Coordinate the team to confirm compliance with technical specifications and QA/QC standards, and help resolve non-conformities and related disputes with buyer support.
• Set objectives for direct reports, manage performance, provide regular feedback, and support improvement where needed in line with performance management guidelines.
• Support Qatarisation initiatives.
• Serve as interim Head of Electrical and Instrumentation when required.
• Forecast obsolescence and initiate necessary upgrades and stock replenishment actions.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reliability, and operating performance.
• Act as contract representative with ownership and cost-control responsibility for key third-party operational support services.
• Manage contractor and vendor performance.
• Share good practices across the company and look for opportunities to improve consistency and alignment between assets where practical.
• Be prepared to join crisis response training and assist in emergency response situations if needed.

Education

A B.Sc., engineering degree, or an industry-recognized technical qualification is required, supported by relevant experience in offshore and onshore oil and gas facilities.

Experience and skills

• At least 10 years of oil and gas industry experience in a similar role, including a minimum of 3 years in supervisory positions.
• Proven leadership capability in a highly technical, multicultural environment.
• Strong understanding of process safety guidelines and their practical application.
• Solid knowledge of cross-discipline maintenance needs, CMMS systems, and planning workflows.
• Ability to work effectively with direct reports, peers, and senior management on a daily basis.
• Strong people-management skills, including leading a large team.
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.
• Industry-recognized training and professional certification.

Additional information

This role carries responsibility for equipment stock worth $25M, multiple contracts valued at $6M per year, and daily approval authority for SAP work orders up to $50k. It also requires regular offshore travel, collaboration with contractor sites, and active support during crisis or emergency response situations when needed.