Approve waiver requests to individual requirements in the MOTS and liaise with the TA-1 for waivers against the MODES.
• For continued use of degraded safety critical systems, approve fitness for service assessments and performance standards.
• Approve responses to actions from HAZOP’s and HAZID’s.
• Approve and guide TA-3’s.
• Provide functional authority to asset or site technical discipline personnel.
• Ensure that TA-3’s assigned to projects/teams are competent to perform their duties.
• Ensure that the TA-3’s are fulfilling their duties and not exceeding their authorities.
• Provide TA for those engineering issues above the authority of the TA-3’s.
• Discipline ownership of maintenance strategies/manuals and performance management of discipline systems.
• Approve safety critical deferrals.
• Assess and approve relevant management of change requests within discipline area.
• Be responsible for ensuring that the technical content of the MODES, MOTS, procedures and guidelines are up to date and technically sound.
• Be responsible for the development of Performance Standards relating to instrument systems.
• Provide technical input into the Design Safety case.
• Provide engineering support for instrument discipline related issues to Field Development Plans.
• Ad-hoc support in the review of design documentation at the request of Production Operations & I&R.
• Be responsible for review and acceptance of AS BUILT drawings.
• Participate in Audits as required.
• Responsible for the development of local standards and guidelines as required.