Process Control Specialist Sr.

About the role

Provides engineering design, orders equipment, and coordinates the construction of expense and capital projects. Ensures projects meet scope, cost, and schedule requirements. Provides engineering support to the maintenance organization to allow the plant to meet its cost and production goals.

Responsibilities

• Develops the general plan for a project, prepares a budget estimate, and obtains approval for the plan.
• Provides conceptual and detailed designs for instrumentation and control systems in accordance with good engineering and safety practices, government regulations, plant specifications, applicable codes, and underwriter requirements.
• Initiates procurement of materials and communicates with purchasing, vendors, and stores to control expediting and receiving of material.
• Inspects new equipment for quality and conformance to specification.
• Prepares work descriptions and drafts of engineering contracts for outside contract work, contacts contractors as necessary to obtain quotations on work to be performed. Prepares bid comparison, selects contractor, prepares requisition, and submits for approval.
• Coordinates field installation, inspects, and accepts work.
• Investigates and studies major maintenance problems and proposes solutions.
• Provides engineering consultation and technical guidance for instrumentation and control systems including safety instrumental systems (SISs), distributed control systems (DCSs), and programmable logic controllers (PLCs) as required by Maintenance and Production.
• Coordinates the activities of consulting firms when necessary.
• Consults with other engineering personnel and vendors and reviews trade journals and other professional publications in order to stay informed on materials, equipment, and design methods.
• Maintains engineering records.

Requirements

• Associate’s degree in engineering/electronics discipline or progressive engineering/technical experience acceptable to management.
• At least 8 years of engineering design experience required.
• Chemical or petrochemical plant experience preferred.