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Sr Instrument Engineer

Location:
Houston, TX, 77006
Salary:
$ 96,000/year
Posted:
July 22, 2010

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Hesham Myrtoglou

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Houston, Texas 77006, USA

Email q1w86j@r.postjobfree.com

Profile

Senior/Lead instrument engineer with over 15 years(2 years in field) working experience in the design and engineering of instrumentation for petrochemical plants and 1 year for offshore platforms.

Responsible for instrumentation FEED to detail design deliverables. Estimating and scheduling. Specified and requisitioned over $ 3 millions of all types of field instruments through progressively responsible track record. Team player with interdicipline, client and vendors interaction skills.

Objective

Seeking a senior position with cross training possibilities and long term goal of transitioning into project management. Use my experience and skills to contribute positively to the project with goal of no rework and save the company money.

Skills Summary

• Supervision / Lead • Estimating / Scheduling • Quality Checker

• Specification Documents • Standards Interpretation • ISA/API/ASME/IEC

• All Field Instrumentation • Requisitions / Quotations • Bid Summaries

• INtool • FEED • Control Valves Sizing

• MS Word / Excel • Packaged Equipment • Orifice Plates Sizing

• P&IDs Development • Hazardous Areas • Field Install./Revamp

Professional Experience

Supervision / Leadership

Responsible for work assignment and supervision of engineers and designers up to 7 individuals.

Prepared man-hour estimates, forecasting, schedules, and progress reports.

Liaised with clients and vendors. Participated in project meetings.

Quality checker for deliverable instrument documents; from specifications to detail design.

Have comprehensive knowledge of field instruments and familiar with control systems, DCS, PLC (ESD), industry codes and standards.

Senior Instrument Engineer

Developed P&IDs, systems block diagrams. Prepared instrument design criteria.

Issued specifications and data sheets for all types of field instruments; flow, level, pressure and

temperature.

Issued sizing calculations and data sheets for control and on/off valves (shutdown valves) with pneumatic and electric actuators (MOVs).

Issued sizing calculations and data sheets for flow elements; orifice plates and venturis.

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Senior Instrument Engineer (continue)

Requisitioned specialty instruments like flare stacks pilot flame monitors, gas (hydrocarbons) monitors,

and underground tanks leak detection systems.

Issued requisitions and reviewed vendors’ quotations. Prepared and evaluated bid summaries.

Used INtool for instrument index and data sheets. Quality checker for all design drawings.

Developed loop diagrams, wiring drawings, junction boxes, local panel layouts and terminations.

Prepared logic narratives and generated alarm summaries. Generated I/O list for DCS and PLC.

Interfaced with DCS, PLC, and MCC for power requirements and motor controls.

Identified instruments in hazardous areas and their enclosure types.

Interfaced with piping, electrical, mechanical and project groups for all instrumentation issues.

Developed analyzers shelter/house utility requirements as well as sample conditioning systems.

Reviewed and checked rotating machinery vendor supplied vibration, Bently Nevada, monitoring.

Evaluated packaged equipment vendors’ quotations; reviewed and checked deliverable instruments

documentation. Participated in packaged skids checkout and acceptance.

Participated in HAZOP reviews. Participated in FAT.

Performed field surveys. Participated in field design/modifications of existing plants’ instrumentation.

Generated specifications and detail design of instrumentation modifications for offshore platforms.

Experienced with instrumentation requirements for various process equipment: compressors, blowers, air coolers, boilers, heaters, flare stacks, exchangers, pumps, tanks, etc.

Employment History

March 2008 – December 2008 Offshore and Pipeline Engineering Co’s, Houston, Texas

Supervising/Lead Engineer. Offshore platforms instrumentation modification.

September 2007 – February 2008 Jacobs Engineering, Houston, Texas

Specification Engineer. Shell – Refinery - Motiva Crude Expansion Project

October 2006 – March 2007 Bechtel Corporation, Houston, Texas

Unit engineer. Shell – Refinery - Motiva Crude Expansion Project

August 1999 – October 2004 Texas Shooters Range, Houston, Texas

Owner / Instructor / Operator of a retail business.

May 1990 – June 1999 Bechtel Corporation, Houston, Texas

Senior/Lead Control Systems Engineer. Assigned to various projects for such companies as Union Carbide, Monsanto, Georgia Gulf, Shell, Chevron, Occidental, Ethyl and Star. The type of plants have included refinery, VCM, Round UP, Aromax, lube oil additives, chemical and LNG.

June 1988 – April 1990 / January 1980 – June 1982 M.W. Kellogg, Houston, Texas

Instrument Engineer. Assigned to several ethylene/propylene, refinery and LNG projects.

Education

1979 – B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

Personal

Speak English, Italian, Greek, Arabic, some Dutch and French.



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