Instrument Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking an Instrument Engineer to join our team in Houston, TX. This is a direct hire, onsite position where you will play a crucial role in designing, maintaining, and troubleshooting instrumentation, control systems, and safety instrumented systems (SIS) within a chemical manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and troubleshoot instrumentation, control systems, and safety instrumented systems (SIS) within a chemical manufacturing environment.
• Collaborate with Operations, Maintenance, Process Safety, and Capital Projects teams to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient plant performance while maintaining compliance with regulations and industry standards.
• Develop and update instrument specifications, datasheets, engineering standards, P&IDs, loop diagrams, interlock diagrams, and control narratives.
• Support installation, commissioning, calibration, and troubleshooting of instrumentation equipment and systems.
• Lead efforts related to Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS), Safety Integrity Levels (SIL), and Safety Instrumented Functions (SIF), supporting PHA, LOPA, MOC, incident investigations, and ensuring OSHA PSM, IEC 61511 compliance.
• Investigate instrumentation failures and implement corrective actions to improve alarm management, interlocks, and control system performance.
• Support plant reliability initiatives, develop preventive and predictive maintenance strategies for instrumentation assets.
• Participate in capital and expense projects by providing design, equipment selection, vendor coordination, and technical reviews.
• Serve as a technical leader and mentor to I&E technicians, providing training and coordination during plant turnarounds, outages, and startups.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Instrumentation Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of instrumentation, controls, or automation engineering experience in chemical, petrochemical, refining, or process manufacturing industries.
• Knowledge of instrumentation design, SIS, SIL, SIF, alarm management, interlocks, and safety systems.
• Experience supporting plant operations and maintenance activities involving PLC and DCS systems.

Location: Houston, TX | Type: Direct Hire | Work Model: Onsite