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%.