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Senior Process Controls Engineer
Tyler, TX
- Benefits: Health, Vision, Dental, 401K
- Schedule: Every other Friday off
- Estimated Start Date: ASAP
- Duration: 3-6 months, possibility to go direct
The Sr. Process Controls Engineer supports in-service operating systems to ensure continued operation and maintenance and optimization throughout. Determines, selects, and implements technically feasible and economically viable alternatives for sustainment. Analyzes and evaluates how to improve a system and/or equipment's sustainability under continued operation, maintenance, and unexpected change.
- Assists engineering leadership with design of control strategies through achieving and sustaining improvements in advanced process controls, loop tuning, inferential estimator and complex PID (proportional integral derivative) loops.
- Utilizes knowledge of DCS (Yokogawa Centum VP), PLCs (Rockwell Allen Bradley), SIS (Yokogawa ProSafe), SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition), instruments, analyzer, process networks in process control configuration and implementation.
- Ensures adherence to corporate standards, guidelines, and performance metrics to define, implement and promote optimal utilization and benefits of process control engineering solutions.
- Provides support for all process control applications, maintenance, installation, migration, control loop management as well as steady state and dynamic models.
- Monitors performance and recommends modifications to improve reliability of models.
- Supports configuration of process control technology versions and operator interfaces.
- Mentors and trains operations and technical staff.
- Provides support for site projects related to process control engineering. Influences sound process control project methods.
- Participates in Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) and Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) to evaluate risk.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
- 5-10 years engineering experience in refining and/or petrochemical industry with ability to learn dynamic matrix control.
- Demonstrated ability to collaboratively work with plant operators and applying current process control theory including multivariable model-based predictive control and inferential technologies to refining process units.
- Yokogawa Centum VP
- Allen Bradley ControlLogix, MicroLogix, SLC.
- Knowledge of Modbus and other field device communication protocols.
- RedLion, PanelView HMI and graphics development.
- Ability to read and understand P&IDs, loop drawings, spec sheets, and other industry-related technical documents.
- Understanding of cabinet design and field wiring with different field devices and instrumentation.
- PC networking theory (IP addressing, Masking, etc.)
- Cause and Effects documentation, control narratives, risk analysis, and other controls-related documentation.
EOE M/F/Disabled/Veteran
Tyler, TX
Process Controls Engineer
