Senior Field Service Automation Engineer

Senior Field Service Automation Engineer

About the Role

Location Qatar Ad Dawhah Doha Company Siemens Energy Organization Transformation of Industry Business Unit Electrification - Automation - Digitalization Full / Part time Full-time Experience Level Experienced Professional

A Snapshot of Your day

As a Senior Field Service Automation Engineer at Siemens Energy, you will play a pivotal role in commissioning, maintaining, troubleshooting, and developing automation programs for retrofit projects. Your day will involve working closely with cross-functional teams and customers to ensure reliable operation of automation systems, resolve technical challenges, and optimize system performance. You will contribute directly to Siemens Energy’s mission of sustainable energy transformation by ensuring that automation systems run safely, efficiently, and with minimal downtime. Expect a dynamic team culture that values technical expertise, collaboration, and continuous improvement, where your service-oriented mindset and problem-solving skills are highly valued.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Reviewing and commenting on the design specifications released by customers; clarifying the scope and material requirements for jobs.
• Work and coordinate Control Systems configurations across multiple engineering platforms and locations and deliver a unified engineering solution for a project.
• Assuring Software and hardware engineering testing jobs are done timely and within the budget
• Organizing the review and test of engineered system with customers, conclude successful FAT with end users
• Assuring all project documentation is updated according to the documentation structure
• Ensure that the final engineered solution is implemented successfully at offshore sites.

Your Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline (Electrical, Electronics, Computer Science / Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, etc.)
• Minimum 8 years of experience as a Automation Engineer in Oil & Gas sector with offshore work experience
• In depth experience with the following technologies:
• Working experience on Siemens PCS7 Automation Systems, SICOS and SOGO libraries engineering knowledge required
• Working experience on Siemens Automation: Simatic S7 400FH systems, Safety Systems, Fail Safe IO system.
• Working experience on industrial communication protocols like TCP, ProfiNET, Profibus DP/PA, MODBUS, Fieldbus, HART and OPC.
• Strong knowledge SIS system design, SIL calculations, IEC and ATEX standards on Safety systems.
• Working experience with ABB system (800xA) preferred.
• Strong knowledge on OSIsoft PI or Aspentech IP21 and strong software coding skills with VB, C++ and SQL preferred.
• Knowledge and practical experience on virtualization with vSphere, HyperV. Practical experience in implementation of virtualised solutions for PCS7 systems.
• Knowledge and practical experience of Cyber Security / OT security implementation like DMZ, firewall, Router, layered Switch configuration are preferred.
• Must be abreast with MS office applications. Knowledge of Autocad, Sigraph or Eplan added advantage.