Job Description

Role Summary:
Provide control system support for the continuous manufacture of high-quality products at high production rates and minimal costs, ensuring compliance with high standards of quality, safety, housekeeping, and good employee relations. The workflow is varied and often requires urgent resolution.

Responsibilities:

• Perform complex work assignments requiring considerable technical expertise.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by offering suggestions for long-term solutions to minimize costs, improve reliability, and enhance loss control performance.
• Position is in a chemical processing facility, requiring overtime to meet plant needs, including alternative shifts as necessary.
• Position requires periodic on-call duties, and the successful candidate must be able to respond 24/7 to plant emergencies on short notice, including nights, weekends, and holidays while on-call.
• Complete all assigned training by deadline.
• Understand and follow all lock-out/tag-out (LOTO) and other health, safety, and environmental requirements necessary to achieve plant loss control objectives, including the use of loss control software for reporting and communication to management of potentially hazardous conditions or practices.

Operational Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain all process automation systems on-site.
• Independently troubleshoot and solve control issues.
• Stay current on new technology and identify new applications to implement.
• Develop new routines and methods to implement new technology.
• Develop business case for new technology.
• Manage projects that affect Advanced Process Control (APC) / Distributed Control Systems (DCS) applications developed by outside resources.
• Develop and modify operator interfaces as needed.
• Plan and execute testing as needed.
• Train operations staff on new technology and applications.
• Lead the start-up, commissioning, and tuning of new applications.
• Gather, select, analyze, and interpret data to understand the impact of changes on APC systems, DCS, and Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS), specifically the potential for domino effect problems, loss of view, loss of control, incorrect logic, and the interconnected nature of the system.
• Assist contract DCS programmers, as needed, for larger projects.
• Serve as the site automation engineer for both Emerson and Honeywell DCS.

Maintenance Responsibilities:

• Maintain DCS, ESD, SIS, and PLC systems.
• Perform hardware and software updates for automation systems while online.
• Install, set up, upgrade, and edit PLC logic statements without bringing systems down.
• Set up new equipment and adjust how equipment is viewed on the DCS.
• Investigate, repair, and provide preventative maintenance on APC, DCS, SIS, and PLC hardware and software.
• Guide instrument technicians and electricians in the field to identify equipment malfunctions.
• Partner with engineers to program alarms and operational limits.
• Partner with capital support for new APC and DCS installations.
• Interpret and follow guidelines for industrial control system security.
• Build various density, pressure, temperature, flow, auto/manual, valve position trends.
• Maintain documentation, instructions, and procedures.
• Participate in functional acceptance testing of APC and DCS applications.
• Manage vendor testing to ensure operating per company specifications.

Qualifications:

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering (other engineering/technical degrees will be considered depending on experience).
• 5 or more years of manufacturing experience in instrumentation or IT.
• 2 or more years of Advanced Process Control experience.
• 2 or more years of experience with Honeywell TDC300 and Experion or Emerson DeltaV systems.
• Computer proficient in Windows 10, Server 2016, MS Office, SAP.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Ability to manage multiple issues/projects simultaneously.
• Candidates will be required to successfully complete extensive testing and an extended training period.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Electrical, Electronics, or Controls/Automation Engineering.
• 8 or more years of manufacturing experience.

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