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Our client is a major refinery in the Los Angeles area serving the fuel transportation and aviation fuel needs of the western United States. Operates an integrated network of strategic assets that creates and sells refined petroleum products, from feedstock acquisition to wholesale, commercial and retail sales outlets.


The work includes engineering design, configuration, programming, maintenance, trouble-shooting, failure analysis, performance analysis in support of safe and reliable operations of instrumentation equipment within the Complex, including:
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Field instrumentation for process measurement (e.g. Pressure, Temperature, Level, and Flow) as well as specialty measurements (density, vibration) and control valves, shutdown valves, and their transmission systems (e.g. 4-20mA, HART)
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Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS)
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Machinery controls and protection systems
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Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC's) for monitoring and control of packaged systems
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Instrumentation cabling, wiring, junction box, power supply and distribution, UPS, and associated TCP/IP, SCADA, Modbus networking (switches, routers, Ethernet, fiber optics, etc.) and transmission systems
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Supporting an operating utilities plant as the instrumentation engineering contact
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Supporting the maintenance team and interfacing with vendors and contractors to maintain, troubleshoot, repair / replace, configure / tune / program, test / commission / de-commission, etc
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Developing strategies for improving reliability challenges
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Sizing and specifying various types of instrumentation for new or existing instruments undergoing a change
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Supporting development of equipment strategies, understanding the impact of equipment sparing, redundancy, reliability, availability, maintainability, and maintenance cost in support of operations excellence and capital efficiency
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Participating in activities related to safety, risk assessment and safety incident investigations related to instrumentation equipment
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Support small projects within the utilities portion of the site
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Primary contributions will be at the individual contributor level with close interfaces within the immediate work group and interfaces with other disciplines within engineering and maintenance
  • Experience with Allen Bradley programmable controls systems (ControlLogix, CompactLogix, and legacy platforms.
  • Proficiency with Allen Bradley PLC software (RSLogix 5, 500, & 5000 and legacy software)
  • Experience with Allen Bradley PowerFlex variable frequency drives
  • Expertise focused on electrical components, electrical power distribution systems, PLC's, instrumentation, and variable speed AC and DC drives. Demonstrated process control experience in defining, designing, installing, and maintaining control logic systems and equipment in a manufacturing environment
  • Process control experience in defining, designing, installing and maintaining control logic systems and equipment.
  • Effective communication skills.
  • Experience working with Rockwell - PanelView 5000, PanelView Plus, PanelView 800 | PanelView Factory Talk View and Siemens - S7-200, S7-300 | Step 7
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  • Rate range $65 to $80hr based on experience level.