Control Room Engineer (Power Plant)

Safety & Environment:

• Ensures compliance to safety, quality and environmental management procedures.
• Operates plant within defined operating parameters to ensure safety of staff, legislative compliance, delivery of high quality products/services and a responsible environmental attitude.
• Raises Incident/Accident report when necessary.
• Participate in safety audits, tool box talks and safety walks.

  Plant Operations:

• Ensures optimum performance of the plant at all times and maintains the level of power and water export as required by off taker control centers
• Performs periodic plant test activities to ensure reliability of trip devices and standby plant equipment
• Performs safe plant start-up and shutdown procedures to maintain optimum reliability of power and water plant equipment
• Monitors performance of the plant during operation and shut down conditions
• Monitors and analyses performance parameters of the plant for change and performs corrective actions necessary to keep the plant in a safe and efficient running condition.
• Planning and controlled changeover/ shutdown of plant equipment for maintenance purposes
• Directs and guides field operators to operate plant equipment in the field and conduct routine plant test/changeover/maintenance activities
• Prepares the following reports ;
  • Shift Reports
  • Shift Production Control Room Log
  • Other reports related to equipment operation
  • Play the role of incident commander in case of emergency in the absence of the Shift Charge Engineer

    Raising Plant Defects and Planning:

• Raise work orders in CMMS to report plant defects and follows up on progress
• Coordinating with the SCE and maintenance staff to schedule planned and unplanned maintenance activities
• Prepare and issue safety documentation to ensure safe isolations from the system for the purpose of planned and unplanned maintenance activities

  Invoicing and Reporting Activities:

• Initiate trip reports to accurately record plant failures or trip conditions for further analysis

  Off taker and fuel gas and Sea water Supplier Coordination:

• Communication and coordination with National Control Centre of (1)Power (2) Water
• Communication and coordination the control rooms of (1) Gas suppliers (2) Sea Water suppliers
• Prepare and retrieve Power and Water availability declarations to power and water control centers
• Communicate gas requirements to gas supplier
• Prepare Tariff Energy Meter Report and send to National Control Centre

  Policies & Procedures:

• Compliance to operational procedures and instructions to ensure work is carried out safely and in a controlled and consistent manner.
• Adhere, prepare and revise Standard Operating Procedures based on accepted standards for efficient, safe, and reliable operation.

  Performing HV Switching under Kahramaa and RLPC switching authorization

• Attain the Safety Controller Authorization
• Liaise with third parties ( Kahramaa, Q-power, Sea water supply company for safety documentation