Control System Engineer

CleanHarbors•Deer Park, TX

About The Position

This position assigned has responsibilities for support of the control systems (DCS, PLC, SIS, etc.). The main responsibility is to deliver, maintain, and upgrade the control systems that meet production’s requirements, perform as necessary to achieve functionality and safety obligations, and maximize system capability. This includes the leadership of the migration and lifecycle system process, maintenance recommendation and oversight of installed base equipment, co-ordination of concepts with production. Why work for Clean Harbors? Health and Safety is our #1 priority and we live it 3-6-5! Competitive pay and benefits Comprehensive health benefits coverage after 30 days Employee Stock Purchase Plan Group 401-K retirement savings with company matching Opportunities for growth and development for all the stages of your career Generous paid time off, company paid training and tuition reimbursement Positive and safe work environments

Requirements

Bachelor Degree Engineering (Chemical or Automation is ideal!) preferred
Experience in maintenance and operations and willing to learn programming
5-6 years experience (Programming related exp, hardware knowledge)
Out of the box thinker with great problem-solving skills.
Wants to grow in the role and with the company over the next 5-7 years

Nice To Haves

Mechanically inclined is an asset!

Responsibilities

Manage all control systems in a specific area
Responsible for oversight of control system critical spare parts.
Responsible for lifecycle status and develop diagnosis concept and periodic health check of installed base control systems
Develop and maintain long-term control system migration plans for their assigned plant with the Production and Maintenance.
Responsible for tracking total cost of ownership for control systems. This includes, monitoring failures, assisting in initial hardware installations, maintenance contract tracking and communication, optimizing software version upgrades and vendor liaison issues such as quick fixes for system problems.
Assigns and keeps record of all I/O points in the area.
Act as SIS Responsible Engineer including maintaining all required documentation for SIS system
Provides expert support for the control systems remotely for other sites as needed.
Perform advanced control and graphic configuration on systems in an assigned area that is beyond the capabilities of the technicians and specialists.
Understanding specific requirements and control systems, and in addition provides technical expertise for other systems and communications protocols used onsite such as SIMOCODE for motor control systems, Profibus and Fieldbus for field instrumentation systems, OPC communications systems, wireless communications, etc.
Lead and/or coordinate root cause failure analysis on significant failures.
Implement Corrective Actions for control system issues.
Maintains the master plan on assigned areas control systems (DCS, PLC and SIS).
Ensure all systems are following corporate standards.
Maintain all logic documentation for the production area for both instrument technicians and production technicians. This includes instrumentation related drawing updates as required.
Develops and ensures maintenance of a database of key advanced process control installations in their area and helps ensure their functionality.
Develop, implement, document and maintain manuals for every system in the production areas.
Responsible for the standardization and Quality of all configurations.
Organizes and coordinates technology and best practice sharing exchanges between control systems vendors, production and their support functions to allow the performance of the control systems and their associated activities to function to their highest level.
This position will own, maintain and communicate all best practices documents.
Supports Capital projects in area requiring interface to control systems
Ensure appropriate preventive maintenance is completed on all control systems in assigned area.
Ensure development and maintenance of WIM functional locations, bills of materials and preventive maintenance
Ensure mechanical integrity programs are in place and implemented, including inspection/testing and preventive/predictive maintenance programs (DCS interlocks, alarm management, safety instrument systems)
Ensure automation roadmap (spare parts, service agreements, obsolescence, etc.) and automation security programs (DCS, SIS, remote access, etc.) are in place
Ensure development, maintenance and availability of equipment files and up to date drawings, including P&IDs, loop drawings, etc.
Implementation of plant monitoring, DCS interlock, safety instrumented systems and alarm management programs