Control System Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Ensuring that Health and Safety is the number one priority by complying with all safe work practices, policies, and processes, and acting in a safe manner at all times.
- Work with automation vendors to specify, design, and commission new and upgraded control and SIS systems; Assess and maintain compliance with industry control system standards such as ISA, API, NIST, PIP.
- Drive continuous improvement in the control system infrastructure, including project activity to renew and evolve the DCS platforms. Process control algorithm development, prototyping, and implementation.
- Implement logic changes to minimize plant trips and improve plant reliability. Establish a management of change process to ensure logic changes are controlled and risk-assessed to ensure plant integrity is not compromised.
- Develop systems to maintain backups of critical systems.
- Assist in developing all capital project lists for the facility and help develop budget costs for such projects; Provide support and develop a multi-year strategy to standardize control systems across all sites.
- Organize, design, and initiate the development, implementation, and maintenance of Basic Process Control and Process Optimization.
- Work as part of the Controls Systems team to ensure operational readiness of sites.
- Lead the prompt resolution of control system performance issues through the application of strong critical thinking skills.
- Oversee reliability and maintenance of DCS/SIS hardware and software.
- Coach operations and other technical personnel on the concepts and use of control strategies.
- Establish and manage goals, reporting needs, key performance indicators, and dashboards for control system health.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering - Electrical, Chemical, Automation, Instrumentation, or a related field required. Alternative combinations of education and experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.
- 10-15 years of relevant experience.
- Rockwell Control Logix Programmer certificate/license required.
- DeltaV Control System Engineering and ABB Control System Courses.
- DCS/PLC proprietary system knowledge (e.g., Rockwell, Emerson DeltaV, ABB, WonderWare suite, Siemens, Canary).
- Working knowledge of Rockwell Platform FactoryTalk, ControlLogix.
- Working knowledge of DeltaV DCS.
- Working knowledge of Process Controls- PID control loops, Cascade, APC, Batch, Function Blocks, Ladder Logic, SIS interlocks, Alarm Management, HMI design.
- Working knowledge of Process Controls in the fields of chemical, refining, or waste incineration.
- Understanding of OEM software Wonderware, Canary, Siemens, Claroty.
- Experience in process control automation design from first principles to maintaining and optimizing existing systems.
- Ability to travel 10%-25%.
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