Current Job Openings
Pay Range: $100,000-$145,000
Location: Houston, TX
Duration: Contract to Hire
Schedule: Will be a 9/80 schedule
Responsibilities:
- Provides technical support and expertise in the application and use of instrumentation and electrical devices in a petrochemical manufacturing facility
- Works directly with operations and engineers of other disciplines to continuously improve overall reliability of operating assets
- Develops plans and leads medium- and long-term programs and initiatives to address obsolescence and other strategic operational reliability threats
- Provides technical knowledge and training to lower level professional and technical staff
- Tracks overall reliability of instrumentation, analyzer, and measurement systems and implements improvements as needed to continuously improve performance
- Leads root cause investigation and other failure analyses relating to instrumentation, analyzer, and other measurement systems
- Ownership of the design and implementation of Preventive Maintenance (PM) programs for instrumentation, analyzer, and measurement systems
- Performs technical advisory role on I&E equipment operational, engineering, and repair issues and defines repair work scopes and supervises repairs as needed, ensuring quality check points are established and communicated
- Responsible for equipment specifications and scoping for projects installing instrumentation, analyzer, and measurement system equipment. Maintains and updates plant equipment files and Process Safety Information (PSI) as needed
- Stays abreast and reviews new instrumentation, analyzer, and measurement system equipment technologies and how they may be of benefit and applied, ensuring that implementation is applied uniformly throughout the facility
- Creates equipment standards and drives equipment improvement
- Interfaces with Procurement to identify inventoried parts and source new parts as needed
- Analyzes instrument data
- Other duties as assigned by leadership
Requirements:
- Minimum of 8 years in a refining, petrochemical, and/or chemical plant operation in either a maintenance, reliability and/or design and implementation role
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering or related field and relevant plant experience
- Must have field experience, not looking for only office/administrative experience.
- Fundamental understanding of Process Safety Management (PSM) principles as applied to instrumentation, analyzers, and measurement systems in a petrochemical facility
- Able to work safely in the plant environment to troubleshoot the process using PFD's, P&ID's, interlock documentation, loop sheets, vendor books and other documentation
- Ability to work closely with others to leverage needed skills to maintain the plant assets
- Knowledge of field instrumentation and the connectivity and interaction with various control systems
- Must have excellent interpersonal, organizational, and administrative skills including the ability to interface with internal customer contacts
- Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills to engage effectively at all levels of the organization
- Must possess a high level of personal initiative, be capable of independent decision-making and work effectively with minimal supervision
- Able to simultaneously manage multiple tasks and objectives effectively
- Capable of building and leading through teamwork with orientation for driving for results
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office 365
- Must be eligible to work in the United States for any company in an ongoing capacity without company sponsorship
- Must be able to perform the physical requirements of the position
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with refining and/or petrochemical production processes, logistics and activities
- Knowledge of industry engineering and technology standards, principles, and practices
- Working knowledge of Oracle or related ERP software
- Basic working knowledge of MAXIMO or related Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) tools
- Hands-on maintenance and applications experience with control valves and various level control systems (dP, displacer type, etc.) instrumentation
- Working knowledge of control systems (Delta V, Honeywell TDC-3000) and their relationship to instrumentation with regards to basic programming and configuration function
- Gas Chromatograph Analyzer & CEMS Analyzer experience - Siemens Maxum II, Yokogawa GC1000/8000, Mark II analyzers
- Delta V DCS and AMS experience in its application of diagnostic and performance-monitoring tools for instrumentation
- High speed turbine control and data acquisition systems such as Woodward Peak and Protech Governor Control experience
- Condition Monitoring Systems experience (Bentley-Nevada or related)
If interested in this role, apply and email me your resume directly at zack.khalil@ptsadvance.com
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