Wood is recruiting for Production Technician for Leman Alpha on a 12 month fixed term basis. This role mobilises from Norwich on a 2*2*2*4 basis.
The Offshore Operations & Maintenance Technician ensures safe, efficient, and reliable production operations across hydrocarbon processing facilities. This role combines hands-on technical expertise with strong problem-solving skills to optimise plant performance and minimise downtime while ensuring operational integrity and compliance with safety standards. The position will be predominantly based on an assigned nodal asset but may well include supporting Normally Unmanned Installations (NUIs) as required in the NUI-OIM position. The role will be focused on experienced production operations bias with a desire but not essential to hold discipline trade technician certification.
Qualifications & Competencies
Essential Education & Experience
1. NVQ/SVQ Level 3 in Processing Operations (Hydrocarbons) or equivalent.
2. Relevant offshore experience in production operations and maintenance.
Technical Skills essential for this role
3. Strong understanding of offshore hydrocarbon processing systems and associated equipment, must have served as a senior production operations technician previously.
4. Competent in isolations, fault diagnosis, and safe reinstatement of plant using Isolation & Re-instatement Risk Assessment Tool (IRRAT) process & control, demonstrate knowledge of isolation base standards, valve proving, minimum isolation requirements based on task specific activities, aligned with proving safe work release.
5. Ability to read and interpret P&IDs and associated technical documentation for overall asset assurance, control and competence.
6. Demonstrate deep understanding and frontend user capability of digital process control systems (DCS/PAS) & understanding of alarms, categorisation, reaction and response process.
7. Demonstrate deep understanding of safety systems including ESD/PSD and ability to interpret C&E diagrams and demonstrate understanding of integrity ratings and requirements.
8. Demonstrate an understanding of control of work systems, hazard & controls requirements. P-Vision for control of work experience is desirable.
Skills desirable but not essential for this role
9. Mechanical: Trade competency & demonstratable experience (Certified apprenticeship & minimum of NVQ3)
10. Electrical: Trade competency & demonstratable experience (Certified apprenticeship & minimum of NVQ3)
11. Instrumentation: Trade competency & demonstratable experience (Certified apprenticeship & minimum of NVQ3)
12. NUI-OIM: Management of Major Emergency (lvl1) & Production operational experience on related normally unmanned installations (NUIs)
Behaviours
13. Strong commitment to safety and operational excellence.
14. Effective communication and teamwork skills.
15. Ownership of tasks and proactive problem-solving.
16. Continuous learning mindset and adaptability.
Important role information
Thie role will initially be a fixed term temporary 12 month contract, fix to a 2/2/2/4 offshore rotation with triply performance reviews and can be terminated based on that performance outcome. For the right experienced candidate additional training will be provided, which will require managerial approval.
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