Assoc Engr - SmartPlant Instrumentation

, India

Job Family Group:

Information Technology (IT)

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

April 22, 2025

Business unit:

Projects and Technology

Experience Level:

Early Careers

Job Description:

What’s the role

As an Associate Engineer – SmartPlant Instrumentation, you will manage the maintenance of field, analyzer, and control system instruments (PLC, DCS) in the oil and gas industry using Hexagon Smart Plant Instrumentation (SPI) INTOOLS. Your responsibilities include preparing JB schedules, loop diagrams, specification updates, and maintaining the instrument index. You will troubleshoot E2E wiring for field instruments, propose technical solutions, coordinate with stakeholders, conduct risk assessments, ensure QA/QC, and maintain records to ensure high equipment reliability and plant availability. Additionally, you will lead the INTOOLS project database, manage data merging and claiming within agreed SLAs, and ensure quality measures. Promoting a 'First Time Right' culture, you will analyze technical data and documents, and collaborate with engineering, maintenance, operations, and project teams to support downstream businesses.

What you’ll be doing

• Support technical assurance to the company that requires adequate maintenance is to be carried out according to appropriate technical standards, including mandatory standards.

• Provide support to strategies and content of Engineering & Maintenance processes related to Onshore & Offshore Assets in collaboration with Asset Operations, Maintenance, and Production Projects drive Venture performance in asset integrity, reliability, costs, and product quality by providing high value credible engineering services.

• Establish and sustain a structured and proactive approach to transfer knowledge to peers.

• Assures design / technical integrity of Production installations throughout their life cycle, including coordination and responsibility for the delivery of Technical Authority roles in the relevant Engineering disciplines.

• Provide Engineering support to Production Operations, including input into and support of commissioning / start-up of new or modified plant and troubleshooting of existing plant.

• Ensures appropriate Engineering discipline controls for projects and plant changes throughout the Opportunity Realization

• Ensure an effective Discipline skill pool, identifying learning and development opportunities for the peers

• Maintains strong connections to shareholder Engineering Best Practice Networks.

• Executing quality checks on the project data and communication with EPC’s to provide comments and improve quality on the long term.

• Updating SPI with as built information from plant changes and inhouse projects

• User support for questions/training.

• Reservation of new Tags for projects and plant changes.

• Review/repair discrepancies between GSAP and SPI.

• Manage SPI templates, tables and database.

• Database cleanup

• In-house resource for turnkey instrument projects

• Support role in assuring as-built documentation is correct and updated in Intools

• Acts as Q/A reviewer between site and the Offsite Engineering Contractor’s design personnel when contract resources are assigned.

• Update and Maintain instrumentation data records in SPI

• Ensures that work is carried out in accordance with complex HSSE policy and procedures.

What you bring

• University Degree in Instrumentation & Control/Electronics & Instrumentation/Electronics/Electrical or related full-time university degree.

• Skill/Mastery knowledge of SmartPlant Instrumentation (SPI)

• Knowledge level of field instrumentation, control valves, DCS/IPS system, marshalling, junction boxes, etc.

• Must be familiar with engineering drawings (PEFS, Instrument datasheets) to perform qc checks on the SPI data.

• Experience in a manufacturing or technical support environment

• Expert with the use of SPI, CAD and GSAP tools

• Practical Knowledge of, and since control systems work is governed by many of the International Society of Automation (ISA) standards and the National Electric Code.

• Knowledge using IN Tools is required.

• Basic proficiency in GSAP is desirable and CAD (engineering drawings) is required

• Knowledge in practical application of instruments

• Skill level competency with Microsoft Office suite programs, Word, Excel

• Good self-motivation, high drive for performance, customer focus, stakeholder engagement and team working skills are essential.

• Experience in leading team/process/projects is highly desirable.

• Knowledge and experience in SPI INTOOLS all versions

• Knowledge of Lean CI methodology is an added value.

• Experience in Technical Data and Documents management including processes and tools. For example, experience in SAP PM & MM module implementation, skill in MS Office tools like Excel and Access etc.

• Able to multi-task, prioritize and ensure delivery of priorities as promised, work without close supervision, and work through others to deliver results.

• Virtual working experience is highly desirable.

• Professional Engineering certifications is an added value.

• Understanding of the Bow ties, Hazard Analysis (HAZOP) and Management of Change (MOC's), LOPA work process.

• Ability to work in high performing teams and operate/integrate across all levels of the Asset.

What we offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.

• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.

• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.

• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.

• Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.

• Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.

• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and

• international teams.

• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

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Shell in India

Shell is a diversified energy company in India with 13,000 employees, and presence in Integrated Gas, Downstream, Power, Renewable and Upstream. Additionally, we have deep capabilities in R&D, digitalisation, and business operations.

Our global strategy, Powering Progress, is designed to generate value for our shareholders, customers, and the wider society, and focuses on creating more value with less emissions. The strategy supports our purpose of providing more and cleaner energy solutions, with the aim of profitably transforming Shell into a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050. As India moves towards its target of net-zero emissions by 2070, Shell India aims to play a leading role in securing vital energy for today, while investing in, and helping to build, the energy system of the future through strategic investments in the country.

Our Lubricants business serves over 50,000 consumers through a strong network of over 200 distributors, and operates an end-to-end value chain that spans conceptualization, development, and production at a world-class blending plant at Taloja. Through our 350-plus retail stations, we offer an integrated mobility experience including fuels, cafes, and convenience stores, with a prominent network of EV recharging facilities.

Shell owns and operates a LNG re-gasification terminal at Hazira, Surat, with a capacity of 5 MTPA and a LNG truck-loading unit that plays a crucial role in helping meet India’s growing demand for gas across sectors. In 2022, Shell acquired Sprng Energy in a $1.55 billion deal to build an integrated energy transition business in the country. Sprng is a leading renewable energy company in India which develops and manages solar, wind, and hybrid power generation facilities and infrastructure.

Our three capability centres across Bangalore and Chennai serve as a technology and innovation powerhouse for Shell globally, working as a delivery engine for core technical, digital, and finance processes: pioneering digital innovation and cutting-edge technologies across the energy sector. We also have strong academic partnerships and collaborations with leading universities and technology institutes to accelerate decarbonization efforts within the energy sector.

We are committed to positively contributing to the communities in which we operate through programmes on STEM Education, Skilling, and Livelihood across India. We nurture and invest in startups developing initiatives focused on accelerating energy innovation through programs such as Shell E4 and Shell Eco-marathon. We also have strategic investments in new energy companies such as Husk Power, d.light, Orb Energy, and Cleantech Solar.

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