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 on-site.

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 current 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.

📌 Control System Engineer - Instrumentation & Control System (Karratha)
🏢 Perdaman Chemicals u0026 Fertilisers(Operations
📍 Karratha