DCS Specialist

Job Summary

The DCS Specialist will lead the implementation of the overall control system from the detailed design phase through the commissioning and turnover phases for the new Blue Point site, ensuring a safe, efficient, reliable, and environmentally friendly plant.

Major Responsibilities

• Participate in-person, at the kick-off, design review, and pre-inspection meetings at vendor’s offices.
• Review and comment on functional design specifications and hardware/software design documentation.
• Provide technical leadership to the control system vendor in developing software typical including control loops and graphics layouts; and ensure established typical are maintained in all control system sub systems.
• Work closely with Process engineers, I&E engineers, and Operations representatives to ensure control and safety functions are properly implemented.
• Travel domestically and globally to attend factory and module yard acceptance testing of DCS, SIS, and PLC systems as required.
• Lead site acceptance testing of DCS, SIS, and PLC systems including loop checks, logic verification, and functional testing.
• Aid the IT team to integrate the site control systems into various other business systems.
• Identify and resolve control system problems during all project phases.
• Participate in plant start up, commissioning, and turnover.
• Work with key site stakeholders to develop site procedures pertaining to all control systems.
• Write, modify, and implement complex process control logic, including interlocks, using proprietary control system language and standard industry protocols such as function blocks, ladder logic, and structured text.

Supervisory Relationships

• Reports To: I& E Supervisor
• Subordinate Positions: None

Incumbent Attributes

• Practical knowledge of operating and maintaining safety instrumented systems per IEC61511.
• Possesses strong cyber security values and will ensure all installations / configurations keep the DCS networks secure.
• Knowledge of routine DCS maintenance tasks such as back up methods, anti-virus patching, and online hardware replacements.
• Ability to identify improvements to complex control schemes implemented across multiple controllers including on PLC, BPCS, and SIS.
• Ability to translate technical documentation such as cause-and-effect diagrams and control narratives into working DCS configuration.

Preferred Qualifications

• Academic degree, certifications and/or licenses.
• More than 8 years of related work experience at a chemical or manufacturing plant.
• Previous experience as an I&E technician.
• Experience with Yokogawa or Emerson Delta V control system programming.