TAHIR HUSSAIN

INSTRUMENTATION QC INSPECTOR/ENGINEER

Cell: +966 594129309

E-MAIL: engr1212@gmail.com ,

OBJECTIVE

To be part of multi-disciplinary detailed engineering group to design and implement projects in oil and
gas EPC sector for petrochemicals, fertilizers, refinery, power plant and to utilize the caliber productively
and effectively for a professional life with fulfillment.

PROFILE

Instrumentation Engineering professional with 10+ years of technical expertise in Design,

Detail Engineering, Direct Digital Control for HVAC, Quality Control and Commissioning of
Field Instrumentation for EPC projects related with Oil & Gas, Refinery, Petrochemical
industries and Waste Treatment plants

Extensive experience in all phases of a lifecycle of various plants such as FEED, Detailed
Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC), Co-ordination with PMC, Site support for
Construction, Commissioning & Startup

Expertise in instrumentation design engineering activities involving in preparation and

review of design deliverables and drawings for Field Instrumentation and Control Systems,
design analysis, resources planning, preliminary cost estimates and vendor management

Conversant with Electrical systems, design works and factors as applicable by the work
program, or as requested within the Department in Electrical System (Medium Voltage/Low
Voltage/ Extra Low voltage/ Low Current)

Conversant with Operation and maintenance of VFD’s, UPS, trouble shooting of electrical
circuits, DOL/Star delta motors starters and ability to handle schedule and emergency
startup, shutdown and safe operation of diesel generators.

Proficiency in SABIC Design Engineering Practices and ARAMCO Design General

Specifications

Well conversant with International Codes and Standards like API, IEC, NEC, BS, ISA, ASME,
ISO, NFPA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

GEMS (Global Environmental Management Services), SAUDI ARABIA

May, 2019-Mar, 2022
Position: Instrumentation QC & Commissioning Lead Engineer
 Project Details:
1. Client: GEMS (Global Environmental Management Services), KSA
 JUBAIL Project – Integrated Waste Recycling Center
 YANBU Project – Integrated Waste Recycling Center
 DAMMAM Revamp Project – Integrated Waste Management Center

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Checking of Instrumentation detail engineering deliverables like PLC Input-Output list,
Instrument Cable Schedule, Alarm Summary List, Electrical Hazard & Operability Study Report,
Layers Of Protection Analysis (LOPA), Cause & Effect Diagram, Logic Diagram, Instrument Loop
Diagram, Instrument index, Control philosophy, Instrument specification sheets, Instrument
hook-ups modification.
• Prepare Logic Diagram, Control Philosophy, Instrument Loop Diagram, Layers of Protection
Analysis (LOPA) and Instrument Cable Schedule.
• Review of PLC IO List and Wiring Diagram, System Architecture diagram, Panel General
Arrangement drawing
• Conducting technical offer evaluation of instruments, instrumentation cables, junction boxes
and bulk items
• Review of Piping & Instrumentation diagrams from client and modification as per the ISA
standard for Instrumentation Symbols and Identification
• Leading commissioning team for the instrumentation related activities including QA/QC
checking, cold loop checking, hot loop checking, on-site testing of control valve, On/OFF Limit
switches, Solenoid valves checking using manifolds and startup of plant
• Configuring EMERSON AMS wireless configurator for wireless field instruments in Smart
Wireless Gateway like flow, pressure, level, temperature and dissolved oxygen transmitters.
• Configuring HACH SC1000 Controller Display Module for pH, redox and conductivity sensors in
Scrubber.

SHANDONG ELECTRIC CONSTRUCTION CORPS SEPCO, SAUDI ARABIA

Position: Instrumentation QC Inspector May, 2017-Feb, 2019

Project: JIGCC JIZAN KSA (Package 04 power block)
Client: SAUDI ARAMCO
Duties & Responsibilities:
• Receiving Instrument scope of work and design, Project Quality Control Procedure, Project
Specification and Standard
• Ensuring approvals of Material Submittals with reference to Material standards and specification
owner approved vendors list and acceptance of client
• After delivery of material to ensure that material is preserved as per vendor recommendation
and as per client standards, Check vendor approval certificates, FAT reports, Material test
reports, Quality inspection reports, as per assign inspection level and applicable drawings and
standards shall be available.
• Responsible for the site inspection and preparation of RFI to Saudi Aramco
• Issuance of Non-conformance reports (NCR) against violate specification, Suggest for corrective
action and follow up closure of NCR.
• Taking preventive and predictive actions for the Non – Conformities observed on site.
• Prepare and monitoring the implementation of Two weeks look-ahead plan for all inspection
activities.
• Material receiving inspection & documentation of all the Instruments Devices, Panels, and
Junction Boxes with reference to relative purchase order, Delivery note, packing list, Instrument
specification sheet, manufacturer instruction manual, material approval and vendor approval
certificates.
• Generate client requests for inspection (RFI) where required providing sufficient notices for Hold
points, Witness point and Inspection points.
• Responsibilities of all Instrument site inspection as per Inspection Test Plan (ITP).
• Preparation of punch list supporting according to the RFI submitted by contractor.
• Inspection of Material Receiving & Storage, Handling and Preservation
• Inspection & witnessed for the Bench calibration of all types of Transmitters, Detector, Sensors,
gauges and Valves.
• Inspection for the Installation of all types of Instrument as per Location Diagram and P&ID.
• Inspection of Impulse Tubing Installation as per HOOK-UP Drawing & P&ID’s.
• Inspection of Cable Tray and RGS Conduit as per NEMA VE-1 & NEMA VE-2 and NEC Article –
392. Inspection of Instrument Primary & secondary Cable Insulation and Resistance On Reel
Test.
• Inspection for the installation of Junction Boxes Frame, Junction Boxes, Low voltage Panel board,
UPS Panel, DCS Panel, Server Cabinets and Instrument Duct Banks.
• Inspection of Instrument Primary & secondary Cable Insulation and Resistance Test after cable
pulling, cable dressing, glanding and termination as per ILD’s and cable schedules.
• Inspection for the installation of Airline and impulse tubing and inspection of leak testing airline
and impulse tubing.
• Inspection for Installation of Fire Alarm Devices Manual Pull Station, Smoke Detector, Fire Alarm
Horn with Strobe, Heat Detector and Beam Detectors as per NFPA 72 and With Approved
Drawing by Loss Prevention Department.
• Preparation of the relevant documents and Loop Packages.
• Inspection for the installation of Battery Rack & Battery, UPS panel & Power Distribution Panel,
Lighting, Receptacles & Fire Alarm Devices.
• Inspection of Power and Control Cable Signal Segregation, Separation and Noise Reduction
accordance with Saudi Aramco Engineering Standard (SAES-J-902).
• Duties involved inspection of cable laying, Glanding, termination, calibration, loop checking and
commissioning, calibration of FT, PT, LT, TT, F& G Detector system, control Valves, ESDV,
MOV,SOV, 0N-OFF Valves, Damping Valves, Switches (PS,TS,FS,& LS)
• Installation of instruments, manual call point installation , horn& beacon ,addressable module
for horn & strobe smoke detector ,
• Fire alarm conduit installation , Fire alarm STP cable pulling & termination ,
• Conduct Internal Inspection of Impulse Tubing & Supports, Leak Test of Impulse and Air Tubes.
• Functional testing of all instrument and loops including Fire & Gas and telecom (PA/GA),
electronics analog and digital signals & emergency shutdown (ESD) system.
 • Responsible for checking verifying, reviewing the construction drawing covering specification
data-sheet, IFC drawings, ILD’s, P& ID’s and others attachment prior to installation and during
inspection. Execution of installation inspection and test plan for each phase of instrumentation
activities
• Coordinating with the client, commissioning and Hand-Over department for mechanical
completion certificate.
• Ensuring all instrument were installed & tested as per project quality procedures & project
specification and preparation of J013 forms for instrument installation inspection.
• Involved in local and remote loop checking. Ensure that the loop folder submitted by the
contractor contains all the relevant documents needed during the loop check.
• Pre-Loop inspection prior to final loop Checking

ARABIAN PIONEER ESTABLISHMENT CONSULTANTS, Saudi Arabia

Position: Electrical & Instrumentation QC Engineer Feb, 2016-May, 2017

Duties & Responsibilities:
• Checking of DDC deliverables received from main contractor like control drawings, instrument
location layout, specifications, scope of work, control philosophy
• Modification in DDC deliverables as per site requirement.
• Preparing control cable schedule, instrument index, shop drawings for cable trays/trench as per
site condition.
• Testing & Commissioning of DDC Panels interlock with Building Management System (BMS)
controlling the HVAC equipment’s i.e. Package Air Conditioning units (Air Damper, Supply Fan
(run status, Auto/Manual, Alarm, Trip, start/stop), Filter, Compressor Start/Stop, Electric Heater
Start/Stop), smoke detectors, thermostats, Temperature transmitters etc.
• Conduct activities and inspection in accordance to Project Quality Assurance Manual and Quality
Control Inspection Plan.
• Monitor daily discipline activities and verifies compliance to project procedures, specifications
and standards. Identify quality problems, reject non-conforming items and initiate, recommend
or provide solutions to the problems with customer sanction / approvals through designated
channels.
• Supervise the works of DDC installations at construction sites.
• Handle the site activities, development reports and update the main contractor engineers.
• Liaise with the Senior MEP engineers/MEP coordinator regarding any site issue.
• Raise DDC works Inspection Requests (RFI’s) to the Consultant and get their approval on site
works as per the Contract and normal procedures.
• Make sure that the labors at site are being utilized up to the optimum level during the site
working hours.
• Attend meeting with main contractors for progressing of works and meeting the deadline.
• Responsible for Execution and Supervision of Utilities Work.
• Ensuring that Standards are met in order to get customer satisfaction.
• Ensure that company safety rules and quality procedures are fully respected.

Client: Royal Commission (RC), KSA

Project: Labor Camp No. 1, Phase 1, Rasal Khair, Saudi Arabia
Royal Commission (RC) is constructing a labor camp to accommodate about 5,600 labors from
different projects running at Rasal Khair, KSA.
BERKELEY ENGINEERING CONSULTANT, Saudi Arabia

Position: Lead Instrumentation Engineer April, 2014 -Feb, 2016

Duties & Responsibilities:
• Checking of Instrumentation First End Engineering Deliverables like Control philosophy, location
layout drawings, P & ID’s, Bulk instrument list and Electrical hazardous area classification
drawings.
• Preparing detail engineering package like PLC Input-Output list, Instrument Cable Schedule,
Alarm Summary List, Cause & Effect Diagram, Logic Diagram, Instrument Loop Diagram,
Instrument index, Control philosophy, Instrument specification sheets, Instrument hook-ups
modification and scope of work.
• Conducting technical offer evaluation of instruments, instrumentation cables, junction boxes
and bulk items
• Review of Piping & Instrumentation diagrams from client and modification as per the ISA
standard for Instrumentation Symbols and Identification
Client: SABIC
Projects:
• Aldehyde vent reduction, Saudi-Yanbu Petrochemical Company (YANPET), KSA
• 80/54 Conversion Case, Yanbu National Petrochemical Company (YANSAB), KSA
• SEP Ethane Metering Skid, Saudi-Yanbu Petrochemical Company (YANPET), KSA
• Oily water separator for ethylene Plant, Saudi Petrochemical Company (SADAF), KSA

MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM AND NATURAL RESOURCES (MPNR), Pakistan

Position: Instrumentation Engineer April, 2013 – Jan, 2014

Worked as field instrument engineer in Oil and Gas Development Company Limited, Pakistan
(OGDCL) at three different Oil and Gas plants under MPNR

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Preparing Process Block Diagram of Chanda Oil Field, Qadirpur Gas Plant and Dakhni Oil Field.
• Writing the process operation report of Oil fields and Gas plant sequence wise.
• Preparing all the control systems philosophy implemented at the plant and fields.
• Preparing list of available calibrating equipment’s used for electrical / Instrumentation testing
and calibration at the plant / field
• List of control system software’s running at the plant.
• Describing the fault findings and troubleshooting techniques used at the plant for maintenance
of the instrumentation
• Inspecting safety / hazards status for field and plant area
• Preparing list of all installed instruments at fields/plant with annual maintenance calibration
details

DESCON ENGINEERING CONTRACTORS, Pakistan

Position: Electrical Site Engineer

Duties & Responsibilities:
• Supervise the works of MEP installations performed by the labors at site.
• Inspection of the work once the labours finished their task and giving them further tasks.
• Get RFI’s (Request for Inspection) approved from consultant, by releasing them on time and
chasing regularly with the Consultant team. o Maintain a proper list for approved RFI’s for future
record. o And work on commented RFI’s to rectify the work accordingly.
• Daily check and manage the work of labours on site and instruct them as per the requirements
and tasks according to the approved drawings.
• Also worked on MST (Method Statement) for proper work flow and to ensure the safety on site.
• Maintain a complete record of construction documents i.e. the site pictures, test certificates for
the materials that we receive and material specifications in a proper format.
• Clear & obstacle-free conduits are necessary for smooth passage of electrical wires. So I was
responsible for the supervision of this task by instructing the labours according to the approved
drawings.
• I was responsible for the inspection of materials that we received for site work. And to manage
that properly in site store for future use.
• Prepare MIR (Material Inspection Request) for the received materials and arrange a visit with
Consultant inspector for inspection of materials and get approval.
• Manage, review and execute the work at Site as per design and specifications
• Preparation plans for the Proper Execution of the work at time
• Reviewing design drawings and specification
• Prepare Shop drawings / Installation drawings and Material Submittals based on Contract
drawings and Contract Specifications

EDUCATION

• Post Graduate Diploma in Instrumentation and Control Systems from

OGDCL Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Islamabad
• Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Electronics from
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Abbottabad, Pakistan
• Certification on Managing Safely course approved from Institute of Occupational Safety and Health
(IOSH) in association with World Institute of Safety and Health.
• Registered with Pakistan Engineering Council under registration number ELECTRO/14037.

SKILLS

• Pre-FEED, FEED & EPC Projects • Procurement Engineering

• Instrumentation & Process
Control
• Instrument Sizing & Selection
• Design and Detail Engineering
• Electrical load calculations
• HV Transmission lines
• Client Relationship Management
• Quality Assurance & Control
• Installation & Commissioning
• Team Building & Leadership
• IN tools
PERSONAL INFORMATION’S

• Passport no: TA6893653

• Nationality: Pakistani
• Iqama: Transferable
• Current Location: Jubail, KSA
• Notice period: A week