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Our client is one of America's largest suppliers of biodiesel. They also have one of the industry's broadest and deepest talent pools of biofuels expertise and knowhow.
Position Summary:
The Instrumentation & Controls Engineer will be responsible for providing technical support to assigned refinery process areas and assigned capital project. They will be responsible for managing I&E Design, from conceptual engineering through detailed design, construction, and project completion.
The successful candidate will be a highly motivated, team-oriented individual who has a background in instrumentation/electrical engineering in a refining/petrochemical environment. They should also have a willingness to manage projects and be able to interface with different disciplines & groups within the refinery and among the project teams.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical support in design and development of instrumentation, controls, and electrical systems.
- Work with reliability engineering to formulate long range programs that sustain, renew, and improve the refinery instrumentation and controls infrastructure.
- Communicate with personnel from different disciplines and grade levels, along with outside resources to obtain needed information or resolve issues.
- Initiate/participate in management of change (MOC) reviews, P&ID reviews, HazOp/PHA's, and incident investigations
- Support the plant in high impact unplanned instrumentation/electrical issues with the ability to be on call
- Providing start-up commission and controls support for plant and plant operators. Assist in loop Tuning.
- Strong field presence conducting audits for compliance, safety, and housekeeping standards
- Prepare and/or review analysis, designs, and contract documents
- Review designs for compliance with engineering principles, company standards and requirements and related specifications
- Initiate, develop, and implement process control strategies on DCS/PLC equipment.
- Maintain and modify existing process control infrastructure and operator interfaces.
- Understand and utilize MainSaver project system for ACD
- Design and modification of automation and control systems including distributed control systems (DCS) and programmable logic controllers (PLC). Experience with Intelligent MCC and VFD.
- Develop I&E designs, specifications, and installation details in compliance with company standards, applicable industry codes and standards, and project deliverables.
- Design and checking of wiring diagrams, interconnection diagrams, schematics, controls, piping and instrument diagrams, instrument installation details, load list, instrumentation list and I/O list.
- Selection and specification of process instruments and electronic transmitters for pressure, temperature, flow, position, level, composition analyzers, etc.
- Configuration of typical transmitters (temperature, pressure, flow, liquid level, gas quality, rotating equipment speed, etc.) and valves
- Installation and maintenance of emissions control equipment and continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS) and Analyzers
- Selection and sizing of control valves and actuators.
- Provides daily refinery operations support to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient operations.
- Project Support Responsibilities
- Support the project engineering group in reviewing the design of instrumentation and control systems
- Participate in integrated project teams with other engineering disciplines to troubleshoot issues and provide engineered solutions
- Interface with contractors/capital crew on design questions
- Support Project Managers in execution of projects.
- Participate in technical reviews with project engineers, engineering firms and equipment suppliers.
- Communicate with the project team to establish essential functions and deadlines necessary to finish project
- Provides I&E Engineering support to the design teams in the execution of capital project
- Initiate procurement requests for instrumentation and electrical equipment.
- Work with project controls team to develop project schedule and spending curve and report progress monthly.
- Recognize and evaluate scope changes for impact to project cost and schedule
- Verifying conformity to project specifications and requirements.
- Interface design and project specifications with other discipline engineers.
- The ability to manage and lead the electrical, instrumentation and controls efforts on projects.
- Coordinate and ensure projects comply with regulatory and code requirements.
Additional Work/Skills/Knowledge/Experience Desired:
- Good understanding of current Industry Standards.
- Experience in the development of electrical drawings and documents that include one-line drawings, power plans, hazard classification maps, cable routing (cable tray/raceways), cable & conduit schedules, and grounding plans.
- Experience in the development of instrumentation drawings and documents such as IO lists, instrument lists, installation details, instrument locations drawings, wiring diagrams and loop sheets.
- Familiarity with industrial Communication protocols, HART, Foundation, Fieldbus, Modbus, and Ethernet /IP.
- Familiarity with Emerson DeltaV (Continuous) and/or Allen-Bradley PlantPAx configuration & troubleshooting is highly desirable.
- Willingness to learn new PLC/DCS Control System Platforms. Have a basic understanding of Safety Instrumented Systems.
- Working knowledge of Emerson AMS and 475 communicator is highly desirable.
Minimum/Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited 4-year college or university in Instrumentation/Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
- 2-5 years as an Instrumentation and Controls Engineer
- Refinery/petrochemical/bio-fuels industry experience preferred.
