Instrument Engineer

Duration: 6 months Schedule: Rotation 8*2 Location: Tanga, Tanzania

This opportunity supports operations across onshore oil and gas facilities, with responsibility for maintaining safe, reliable, and efficient instrumentation and control systems. The role focuses on calibration, troubleshooting, commissioning, and preventive maintenance across field instrumentation, automation systems, and process control equipment. This position offers exposure to DCS, PLC, SCADA, safety systems, HIPPS, and a technically demanding pipeline and terminal environment.

Required Education:

• Degree or Diploma in Instrumentation, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field

Required Experience:

• Relevant experience in oil and gas, petrochemical, refinery, LNG, offshore, or pipeline facilities
• Experience working in onshore industrial environments including remote field locations, confined spaces, and elevated work areas
• Experience supporting plant shutdowns, turnarounds, and commissioning activities

Required Skills:

• Installation, testing, calibration, and commissioning of field instrumentation and control equipment
• Maintenance and repair of pressure, temperature, flow, level, and analytical instruments
• Troubleshooting of instrumentation, control, and automation system failures
• Preventive and corrective maintenance of instrumentation systems
• Inspection and maintenance of control valves, actuators, transmitters, switches, sensors, and solenoid valves
• Knowledge of PLC, DCS, SCADA, safety systems, and HIPPS
• Loop checking and commissioning
• Use of calibration equipment including pressure calibrators, multifunction calibrators, and communicators
• Knowledge of HART, Foundation Fieldbus, Modbus, and other industrial communication protocols
• Ability to read and interpret P&IDs, loop drawings, electrical schematics, and technical documentation
• Knowledge of industrial instrumentation, process control, and automation systems
• Familiarity with industry standards, safety regulations, and permit-to-work systems
• Preparation of maintenance reports, calibration records, and work documentation
• Coordination with operations, maintenance, and engineering teams to minimize production downtime

About Airswift:

Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with unique project needs. With over 1000 employees and 9,000 contractors operating in over 60 countries, Airswift's geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry.