1. Objective: We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our E&I; team at Karratha for Perdaman’s Ammonia & Urea project. Perdaman, a leading player in the fertiliser industry with its corporate office in Western Australia, is looking for a candidate to fulfill the responsibilities as identified in this position description.

2. Responsibilities:

2.1. Asset Management:

• Oversee and maintain assets in responsible area to ensure optimal performance.

• Conduct maintenance, and troubleshooting in compliance with safety, regulatory, and operational standards.

• Collaborate with plant operators, technicians, and engineers.

• Manage life cycle planning and ensure availability of critical spares in office.

2.2. Main Area of responsibility:

• All Automation assets.

2.3. Installation & Commissioning:

• Support the installation, commissioning, and startup of new plant, ensuring compliance with technical specifications.

• Provide technical support during commissioning, ensuring thorough testing and seamless integration.

2.4. Operational Responsibilities:

• Maintain and troubleshoot Control Systems, networks and related hardware/software.

• Investigate failures, analyse issues, and report concerns to supervisors for corrective actions.

• Support incident RCAs.

• Support turn-around planning and coordination.

• Work order prioritisation.

• Review and update asset criticality ranking.

• Adopt reliability centred maintenance for budget optimization and plant availability.

• Maintain accurate logs, history, and ERP records.

• Adhere to company procedures for installations, maintenance, and troubleshooting to ensure asset reliability and safety.

• Achieve KPIs and contribute to company goals.

• Managing rosters and ensuring optimal availability of skills to support operations.

• Ensuring own and teams’ compliance to health safety and environment requirements.

2.5. Process Optimization & Troubleshooting:

• Analyse data from assets in responsible area and work towards proactively improving efficiency, reliability, and safety.

• Provide troubleshooting expertise during unplanned equipment downtime, ensuring rapid recovery.





• Collaborate with operations teams for enhanced process efficiency and reduced downtime.

2.6. Safety & Compliance:

• Work in accordance with the permit-to-work system.

• Conduct/attend toolbox talks.

• Maintain compliance with local regulations, company guidelines, and HSE policies.

• Ensure that the responsible assets meet safety and industry standards.

• Participate in safety audits and risk assessments.

2.7. Documentation & General Support:

• Maintain accurate records for assets in responsible area including history/data-entry in ERP system.

• Generate performance reports and document incidents affecting operations.

• Develop/assist in developing SOPs, manuals, and technical documentation.

• Assist with the annual budget for capital and operating spares.

• Support other tasks within skill and ability as directed.

3. Required Qualifications & Experience:

3.1. Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field and can qualify for professional engineer to be a member of Engineers Australia.

3.2. Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years in chemical, petrochemical, or fertiliser plant.

• Proven expertise in maintaining and troubleshooting of assets in responsible areas.

3.3. Essential Criteria

• Previous experience with process Automation Systems.

• Previous experience with Yokogawa Centum VP, Prosafe RS, and Siemens S7 series of PLCs will be preferred.

• Full working rights in Australia or eligible to get working rights in Australia and fulfill Australian visa requirements if applying from outside Australia.

• Engineering qualification recognised by Engineers Australia and eligible to pass the skill assessment.

• Conversant with English language

• Physically capable of traversing the plant and accessing process plant and equipment at different elevations.

3.4. Skills & Competencies:

• Hands on experience in maintenance and troubleshooting of advance control systems.





• Should be able to troubleshoot and maintain various control systems like Yokogawa Centum VP , Prosafe RS, Siemens S7 series of PLC, PCS7, GE MarkVIe etc.

• The candidate should be willing to learn new skills related to various control systems and related technologies.

• Knowledge of communication protocols such as TCP/IP, HART, Modbus, OPC, and Profibus.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent communication skills for collaboration across functions.

• Strong organizational and documentation abilities.

• The candidate should be willing to learn new skills related to area of responsibility.

4. Key Attributes:

• Detail-oriented with a focus on precision.

• Strong team player with effective collaboration skills.

• Ability to follow instructions and take initiative.

• Proactive and committed to continuous learning.

• Capable of managing multiple tasks under pressure.

• Keen to stay updated on emerging technologies and mentor others.

• Ability to focus under challenging and critical situations and deliver optimal outcomes.

• Ability to make the best possible decisions with the available information, and circumstances which require immediate response.

5. KPIs:

• Compliance to Perdaman's Values.

• Safety Compliance - Zero LTI, PPE Compliance & Compliance to Permit to work requirements.

• Incident Reporting - timely reporting of incidents and near misses.

• Equipment availability.

• Following Maintenance SOPs & Strategies.

• Complying to PM schedules - ensuring main and standby equipment are available on demand.

• Communication - Maintaining Communication as per stakeholder’s requirement & Maintaining logs.

• Training & Compliance - Compliance to all mandatory trainings and compliance to local rules and regulations.

• Ensuring spare parts.

6. Working Conditions:

• Full-time position based in Karratha, Western Australia

• Industrial plant environment with operational exposure.

• Should be able to work shifts and reasonable additional hours, including weekends and holidays to support operations and turn-arounds.

• Occasional travel required for training and project support.

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