Controls Technician

SLBBerwick, PA
Onsite

About The Position

The CONTROLS TECHNICIAN Specialist leads and oversees activities in the OneSubsea controls department. This role involves troubleshooting and repairing issues related to leaks, pressure, and component failures within the subsea environment. The technician will review routings, communicate necessary changes to engineering and project coordination, and diagnose electrical faults. They will also train and guide employees, conduct meetings, track hour performance, and ensure work orders are closed out proficiently. This position requires periodic review and support of HARCS updates, answering questions about ongoing work, and reporting progress to management. The technician will assume responsibility for all work under their leadership and support the work area with limited supervision, while maintaining professional relationships with colleagues and customer representatives. They will troubleshoot major issues during testing with engineering guidance, execute planned and preventative maintenance on controls equipment, and support Factory Acceptance Testing (FIT) and Site Received Testing (SRT) for various subsea control systems. Additionally, the role provides technical support for extended factory acceptance testing (EFAT) and deck pre-deployment testing (PDT), as well as miscellaneous manifold integration and EFAT testing. The technician will mentor and train electronic technicians, maintain controls test equipment and facilities, and work with inventory planners to ensure proper storage of controls equipment. This role also involves providing cost estimating for all controls-related scopes.

Requirements

  • High School graduate or equivalent.
  • Minimum 5-years of experience in offshore oil and gas or subsea operations, preferably in controls work.
  • Pressure testing, function testing, and fluid cleanliness activities experience
  • Current or previous certification to operate forklifts, aerial lifts, overhead cranes.
  • Familiarity with high-pressure/ high-voltage environments.
  • Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics and wiring diagrams.
  • Understanding of hydraulic circuits, pumps, valves, and actuators.

Nice To Haves

  • Experience with subsea control pods, subsea distribution equipment, umbilicals, and hydraulic power units (HPUs) preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Troubleshoot to diagnose and repair leaks, pressure issues and component failures.
  • Review routings and communicate any necessary changes to engineering and project coordination team.
  • Troubleshoot to diagnose electrical faults related to the subsea environment.
  • Communicate with shop manager and coordinate work accordingly.
  • Train and give guidance to employees.
  • Perform meetings such as safety, facility training, etc.
  • Track hour performance vs standard hours in the routings. Report any major overruns to manager.
  • Close out work orders proficiently; which consists of verifying all paperwork is completed, signed and final operation confirmation is completed in the system.
  • Periodically review and support updates of HARCS and execute pocket HARCs as needed with controls team and others as needed.
  • Able to answer questions about ongoing work in meetings and report progress to manager.
  • Assume responsibility of all work under your leadership.
  • Able to support work area with limited supervision.
  • Maintain a professional and working relationship with fellow employees and customer representatives.
  • Troubleshoot with engineering guidance to solve major issues that arise during testing.
  • Execute SCM planned and preventative maintenance (PPM) along with controls centric equipment such as CDU, EDU, CIMV, EFL, STFL, etc.
  • Support and execute FIT on Controls systems.
  • Execute SCM site received testing (SRT) along with controls centric equipment such as CDU, EDU, CIMV, EFL, STFL, etc
  • Provide technical support for tree SRT, extended factory acceptance testing (EFAT) and deck pre-deployment testing (PDT) as needed.
  • Provide technical support for miscellaneous manifold OneSubsea controls integration and EFAT testing as needed.
  • Mentor and train electronic technicians.
  • Maintenance and upkeep of controls test equipment and of the controls testing facility.
  • Work with Customer Property inventory planners to ensure proper storage of controls equipment.
  • Provides cost estimating for all controls related scopes.
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