Airswift has been tasked by one of our major oil & gas clients to seek an Instrument & Controls Engineer to work within their facilities located in Borger, TX for an on-going contract.
Within this position, you will be responsible for providing technical support for routine maintenance of the refinery's instrumentation and controls (I&C) properties while leading reliability improvements in these areas.
Day to day responsibilities:
- Drive the development, design, and implementation of instrument and controls portions of capital projects
- Develop capital and expense budget requirements related to instrumentation and controls upgrades
- Generate detailed functional requirements specifications to ensure new instruments / controls meet project requirements
- Write and participate in Factory and Site Acceptance Testing of PLC / SCADA systems
- Provide designs to improve instrument / control’s reliability
- Assist in implementing and improving reliability programs and processes: Defect elimination Predictive/Preventive Maintenance Plans, Criticality Analysis, SIS and associated metrics
- Processing Hazards Analysis (PHA) / Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) support
- Specify and procure new and replacement instruments and control hardware for PLC / SCADA systems and industrial networks using industry protocols
- Assist and complete MOCs, P&IDs, PHAs
Previous education and experience required:
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical or Chemical Engineering
- 3+ years of instrumentation experience within an industrial environment
- Knowledge of instrumentation specification through design and field installation experience
- Understands safety and mechanical integrity standards and maintains competence in these fields
- Knowledge of instrument maintenance practices
- Familiar with Smart Plant for Instrumentation (SPI) and SAP
- Ability to program or modify programming for Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) for general purpose and safety applications
- Knowledge of instrument safety requirements, including the applicable sections of OSHA 1910.119, ANSI/ISA 84.00.01-2004 and API documents