Sunday, August 12, 2012

Lead Control Systems Engineer Wanted in london

Status:Staff
Location:London, UNITED KINGDOM
Advert Published:12 Aug 2012
Expiry date:11 Sep 2012
Talascend Ref. No.:55623
OilCareers Ref. No.:J796583







Apply here : http://www.oilcareers.com/content/jobsearch/job_advert.asp?jobadid=796583

Position Duties/Responsibilities:

· The Chief Engineer of Control Systems shall assign a Lead Engineer to a project.
The Lead Engineer shall have extended experience in the Oil, Gas and Chemical (OG&C) contracting industry with experience in lead positions managing a team of at least 15 engineers. In addition, the Lead Engineer shall have hands-on experience of project execution through a variety of phases including conceptual design, feasibility studies, front-end design, detailed engineering design and procurement of instrumentation and control systems equipment.

· The Lead Engineer shall report to the Project Engineering Manager assigned to the project and functionally to the discipline Chief Control Systems Engineer.

· The Lead Engineer shall be responsible for planning, organizing, monitoring, reporting, coordinating and controlling the control system scope of work for the assigned project within agreed man-hour budget, schedule and quality standards.

· The Lead Engineer shall interface with the Client representatives to ensure all customer expectations are met.

· The Lead Engineer shall ensure that the project scope is fully understood by self and communicated to all team members.

· The Lead Engineer is responsible for completing staff employee annual performance appraisals and for coaching and developing control systems staff to professional status where required.

· The Lead Engineer may be required to assist the Chief Control Systems Engineer with input to proposals, corporate workshop activities, developing standards, developing technical work practices, interviewing control systems engineers including graduates, developing execution strategies and performing technical audits.

· Commercial awareness and leadership skills are important attributes of a good Lead Engineer.

· The Lead Engineer shall be a team player, goal oriented in so far as the production of deliverables and achievement of milestones as well as taking ownership of tasks and the responsibility for their outcome.

· He or she will also be an effective administrator and a good communicator.

· The Lead Engineer must be familiar with European and American Standards and their application as well as industry trends and their likely impacts.


Required Qualifications and Position Skills

. Masters or Honours degree in Control Systems, Electrical, Electronic or Mechanical Engineering

. Professional Engineer (Chartered Engineer, Fellow or equivalent)

. Proficient user of office automation packages such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and Access

. SPI user for the preparation of instrument indices and datasheets – rather than being a proficient hands-on user Lead Engineer should understand how SPI is used

. Document Management, Scheduling, Material Requisition Tool

Additional requirements:

Candidates must be prepared for international travel on business trips and or project assignments to site.

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Electrical Torsion Meter (Torque Measurement using slotted Discs)

Basic principle

Due to the applied torque, there is a relative displacement between the two slotted discs. Due to this relative displacement of the slotted discs, a phase shift exists between the pulse generated by the transducers. When these pulses are connected to an electronic unit, it will show a time lapse between the two pulses. This time lapse between the two pulses is proportional to the twist of the shaft and the torque of the shaft.

Description of Electrical Torsion Meter


  1. The main parts of an electrical torsion meter are as follows:
  2. A shaft connected between a driving engine and a driven load.
  3. Two slotted discs attached on either side of the shaft.
  4. Transducer (magnetic or photo electric ) to count pulses from the slotted disc.


Operation of Electrical Torsion Meter


  1. The teeth produce voltage pulses in the transducers.
  2. When torque is not applied on the shaft, the teeth of the bth the discs perfectly align with each other and hence he voltage pulses produced in the transducers will have zero time difference.
  3. But when torque is applied on the shaft, there is a relative displacement of the slotted discs due to twist experienced by the shaft and hence the teeth of both the discs will not align with each other and hence the voltage pulses produced in the transducer will have a time difference (that is , time lapse).
  4. This time lapse between the pulses of the two discs is proportional to the twist of the shaft and hence the torque of the shaft.
  5. A measure of this time lapse becames of torque when calibrated.


Application of Electrical Torsion Meter


  1. Used to measure torque on rotation shafts.


Advantages of Electrical Torsion Meter


  1. There are no signal leakage problems.
  2. There is no noise creation.