Smart Plant Instrumentation (SPI) Administrator

  • Category: Database Administrator
  • Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
  • Job Type: Full Time / Part Time
  • Salary: Estimated: $ 19K to 35K
  • Published on: 2025/09/21

Petrofac is a leading international service provider to the energy industry, with a diverse client portfolio including many of the world’s leading energy companies.



We design, build, manage and maintain infrastructure for our clients. We recruit, reward, and develop our people based on merit regardless of race, nationality, religion, gender, age, ****** orientation, marital status or disability. We value our people and treat everyone who works for or with Petrofac fairly and without discrimination.



The world is re-thinking its energy supply and energy security needs; planning for a phased transition to alternative energy sources. We are here to help our clients meet these evolving energy needs.



This is an exciting time to join us on this journey.



We support flexible working requests and have adopted a hybrid approach for most of our office-based roles. We ask employees to be present in the office at least three days per week.



Are you ready to bring the right energy to Petrofac and help us deliver a better future for everyone?



JOB TITLE: SPI ADMINISTRATOR - SENIOR ENGINEER



KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:



Smart Plant Instrumentation (SPI) typical administration tasks including



SPI Installation and configuration (Oracle & SQL)
Perform database connections to SPI applications
Domain Initialization and Backup activity / DBA Activities
Application database fitness and maintenance, Site-Plant creation, Plant Break Down Structure (PBS), Creating Users, Groups, Department, Tag Naming Convention, User defined tables and User defined Custom Fields
Projects scope and merge, and audit of SPI databases used by other contractors
Develop Reference Cables, device panels, junction boxes and DCS/PLC wiring equipment.
Creation of EDE View/ Browser in reference Explorer and assign to domain.
Symbol creation and customization of templates for Specification, Wiring, Hook-Up Drawings
Develop SPI related Specification Documentation, templates, implementation plans for the projects
Deliverables customization: reports, datasheets, drawing templates, wiring schedules, loop diagrams, hook-ups and other diagram types
Customization of Reports (forms) and Specifications using INFOMAKER.
Prepare the Power soft report (*.PSR file) and import the same PSR file to retrieve the data in SPI.
Upgrade SPI database as per version compatibility SPI Modules Administration, Instrument Index, Process Data, Specification, Wiring, Loop Drawing, Hook-Up.
Train new Users on SPI Admin module and Engineering module within the group to produce C&I project documents: - • Instrument Lists • Wiring details and schedules • Loop diagrams including Smart Loops • Instrument data sheets • Cable specification and schedules • Hookups including creation of Typical hook-up drawing, assigning Tags to the Hook-ups, Hook-up MTO extraction


ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:



BE / B. Tech (Mechanical / Electrical / Electronic / Instrumentation or similar) from a reputed institution with more than 8 years of experience Smart Plant Instrumentation (SPI) administration
Good knowledge of database schemas and tables and ability to write own SQL queries,
Good knowledge of import utility module, Creation of Excel template for Importing Instrument Index, IO List, Specification and Cable schedule data and Import data to SPI.
Able to work Including User level.


Company Name: Petrofac

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