Process Controls Engineer
About the role
Cenovus Energy is seeking a new Process Controls Engineer for the Lima Refinery with a strong attention to detail, ability to learn, and the flexibility to adjust to changes based on plant priorities. The role will ensure that DCS Regulatory/Supervisory Controls, Operator Graphics, Alarm System, Process Historian and PI are designed and implemented in accordance with refinery standards to maintain, optimize and continue safe operation. This position will also manage Budget Adherence, Schedule Adherence, PSM compliance, Alarm Performance and Control Scheme Implementation. The Process Controls Engineer's level of problem-solving will vary with tenure & maturity in the position. This role requires complex problem-solving skills to assist Operations and Process Engineering in diagnosing and developing solutions to refinery operational issues.
Responsibilities
- Provide new and maintain existing DCS control scheme designs, control configurations, alarm configurations and operator graphics that meet refinery guidelines and provide improved reliability/safety for ongoing plant operations
- Participate in Design Review, P&ID’s Review, Engineering Milestone Review, MOC, Investigation, Hazard & Operability (HAZOP) Study, Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) processes
- Provide Project Engineering support in accordance with sites standards and practices and provide ease of maintenance and increased reliability to the refinery
- Develop control schemes in accordance with site standards that allow for ease of use for operations and maintainability and reliably for the Area Business Team Process Controls Engineers
- Specify and procure DCS Hardware in accordance with site standard hardware
Requirements
- Legally authorized to work in the US
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering or Electrical Engineering
- 1+ year of direct refinery Process Controls experience or other closely related experience
- Proficient technical skills and knowledge of refinery operations, process flows, coordination, and systems
MBA, PMP Certification, or Professional Engineer License considered an asset. We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.
Benefits
- Generous paid vacation
- Annual bonus
- Retirement savings plan matching
- Long-term incentives*
- Medical & dental coverage
- Life insurance
- Disability benefits
- Employee assistance program
- Virtual healthcare coverage
- Generous leave of absence programs
- Fitness membership reimbursement
- Employee Giving and Volunteering Program (Cenovus Cares):
- Support causes you care about with volunteer opportunities in and outside of work
- Earn donation grants while volunteering (up to $1,000 per event)
- Receive donation matching up to $10,000 annually
- Staff resource groups (voluntary, employee-led, open to all staff)
Eligibility for Total Rewards varies by position. This role may not be eligible for all Total Rewards offerings.
About the company
Cenovus is an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary. We’re committed to maximizing value by developing our assets in a safe, responsible and cost-efficient manner. We operate in Canada, the United States and the Asia Pacific region. Our downstream operations include upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States. We are currently the largest refiner in Ohio and transport products from our refineries in Lima and Toledo, Ohio and Superior, Wisconsin via pipelines, rail cars and trucks to customers throughout the United States. Other operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta, thermal and conventional crude oil and natural gas projects across Western Canada, crude oil production offshore Newfoundland and Labrador and natural gas and liquids production offshore China and Indonesia.
Our purpose: We energize the world to make people’s lives better.
- Our values:
- Protect what matters
- Do it right
- Make it better
- Do it together