Instrumentation and Controls Engineer II
About the role
This opportunity is based at a manufacturing facility and focuses on instrumentation engineering, process control, and day-to-day plant troubleshooting. The role supports field instrumentation, PLC troubleshooting, control valve activities, and process data analysis while contributing to reliability, safety, and continuous improvement. It offers work in a technically demanding environment with strong exposure to SIS, control logic updates, and instrumentation strategy development.
Responsibilities
- Support field instrumentation installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting
- Perform PLC troubleshooting and support
- Handle control valve activities (sizing, inspection, coordination with vendors/OEMs)
- Conduct process data analysis and trending using historian databases and visualization tools
- Contribute to reliability, safety, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Work with Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS), fire and gas detection hardware
- Assist with control logic updates and loop tuning
- Develop and execute process control surveillance programs
- Perform criticality assessments and develop equipment strategies and maintenance plans for instrumentation and control systems
- Support field execution and commissioning (testing and checkouts) of instrumentation, control panels, HMIs, reactor bed bundles, low‑voltage power and grounding
Requirements
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
Experience: Minimum 5 years of engineering experience in a manufacturing environment; experience evaluating discipline engineering work to ensure alignment with specifications, company standards, and regulatory requirements; experience with instrumentation and control systems maintenance, reliability, and troubleshooting.
Skills
- Strong knowledge of pressure, temperature, and level instrumentation, Safety Instrumented Systems, and fire and gas detection hardware selection and application
- PLC troubleshooting and support
- Control valve sizing, inspection, and coordination with vendors or OEMs
- Ability to analyze maintenance records, instrument failure rates, availability and reliability calculations, and failure modes
- Design and run sizing calculations for various instrumentation technologies (level, flow, pressure, temperature, etc.)
- Design and run sizing calculations for control valves and assembly components
- Design and run sizing calculations for On/Off valves and assembly components (SDV, EBV, MOV)
- Field execution and commissioning experience (testing and checkouts related to items above)
- Experience with local control panels and HMIs (e.g., on furnaces)
- Reactor bed bundle inspection, installation, and commissioning
- Low voltage power and grounding for instruments and system equipment (120V, 24V)
- Ability to develop and execute process control surveillance programs
- Ability to collect and trend process data using historian databases and visualization software tools
- Experience with process control philosophy reviews, stability reviews, control logic updates, and loop tuning
- Ability to conduct criticality assessments and develop equipment strategies and maintenance plans for instrumentation and control systems
- Strong knowledge of design standards, specifications, codes, and appropriate safety criteria
- Proficiency in data collection and analysis using tools such as SAP, Analytics for Excel, and Tableau
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
- Strong communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills
- Fluent English for technical and business communication
- Ability to adapt to tight deadlines, heavy workloads, and changing priorities
Qualifications
- Electrical Engineering degree (preferred)
- Prior experience in petrochemical manufacturing (preferred)
- Prior experience with Schneider Electric or Triconex systems (preferred)
- Previous experience supporting a refinery, chemical complex, or related manufacturing environment such as steel production (preferred)
- Previous direct or contract experience with a major operator in a similar environment (preferred)
Schedule
Monday–Friday, 8 hrs/day (flexible, ~8–5)