Role & responsibilities

- Manage and maintain DCS, PLC, SCADA, ESD/SIS, and related control systems.

- Ensure proper configuration, backup, modification control, and system reliability.

- Coordinate with automation/control-system vendors for troubleshooting and upgrades.

- Ensure accurate measurement and control of pressure, temperature, flow, level, pH, conductivity, composition, and other process parameters.

- Optimize control loops and minimize process disturbances.

- Review and improve PID tuning and control strategies

- Ensure availability and functional integrity of SIS/ESD systems, interlocks, alarms, and trips.

- Coordinate proof testing and preventive maintenance of safety-critical instruments.

- Participate in HAZOP, LOPA, SIL assessment, and management-of-change activities.

- Supervise inspection, maintenance, calibration, testing, and troubleshooting of control valves, actuators, positioners, and solenoid valves.

- Analyze repeated valve failures and implement corrective actions.

- Establish and maintain instrument calibration programs.

- Ensure calibration records and certificates are properly maintained.

- Ensure compliance with plant procedures, quality standards, and statutory requirements.

- Review instrumentation engineering documents such as P&IDs;,



instrument index, datasheets, hook-up drawings, cable schedules, loop diagrams, and logic diagrams.

- Participate in plant expansion, modification, debottlenecking, and automation projects.

- Review specifications and technical offers from instrumentation vendors.

- Lead and supervise instrumentation engineers, technicians, contractors, and vendors.

- Identify critical instrumentation spares and maintain appropriate stock levels.

- Maintain accurate instrument databases, drawings, maintenance history, calibration records, and system backups.

Preferred candidate profile

- Robust knowledge of process instrumentation (flow, level, pressure, temperature, analysers)

- Expertise in control systems, interlocks, loop tuning

- Knowledge of chemical process safety, SIL, and reliability engineering

- Ability to read P&ID;, loop diagrams, cause & effect diagrams.

- Leadership, planning, and maintenance management skills

- Minimum 12 years of experience within the eexperience in chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, refinery, specialty chemical, or process industries is highly valuable.

- B.E./B.Tech in Instrumentation, Electronics & Instrumentation engineering

📌 Instrumentation Manager (Mangalore)
🏢 Catasynth Speciality Chemicals
📍 Mangalore