Control Systems Engineer IV

Fluor•Houston, TX

11h

About The Position

The purpose of this position is to provide the essential administrative processes, technical knowledge, and perform the work listed. This role has the responsibility to promote Fluor’s competitiveness within the global marketplace by delivering quality services of unmatched value and technical competence. This position serves as an Area Lead or Lead on assigned projects or performs moderately complex engineering assignments, evaluates, selects, and applies standard engineering techniques to a broad set of complex assignments.

Requirements

Accredited four (4) year degree or global equivalent in engineering field of study and eight (8) years of work-related experience
A recognized professional certification or registration in the applicable field, if required
Ability to communicate effectively with audiences that include but are not limited to management, coworkers, clients, vendors, contractors, and visitors
Job related technical knowledge necessary to complete the job
Ability to learn and apply knowledge of applicable local, state/province, and federal/national statutes and guidelines
Ability to attend to detail and work in a time-conscious and time-effective manner
Must have at least 8 years of control systems engineering experience in the EPC industry
Intermediate computer and software skills to include the use of word processing, e-mail, spreadsheet and electronic presentation programs

Nice To Haves

Professional registration and membership in technical society
Advanced knowledge of discipline codes and standards, commercial availability and cost of materials
Effort-hour estimating and staff forecasting
Practical field experience

Responsibilities

Apply Cost Competitive Execution techniques to develop the most cost-effective total project solution for execution of the discipline engineering work
Develop and review specifications, including design criteria
Perform control systems sizing calculations for control valves, relief valves, flow elements, thermowells and other instrumentation
Create instrument index and datasheets, generate reports, and monitor design wiring and loop development activities in Hexagon Smart® Instrumentation database
Develop intermediate complexity control systems narrative specifications
Develop control systems, cause and effect diagrams, or logic diagrams as required by project
Represent control systems in model reviews; closely monitor 3D modeling prepared by design group utilizing review software
Develop specifications and design of Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) and Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) hardware and software applications; monitor DCS/PLC/SIS design developed by the design group
Knowledge of: Specifying instrumentation
Knowledge of: Control systems procurement activities including knowledge to generate instrument Request For Quotation (RFQ)/purchase orders (PO)
Knowledge of: Piping and Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID) representation; can recognize/report problems associated with control systems representation on P&ID
Intermediate level knowledge to develop control strategies and represent on P&ID
Understanding of instrument design and installation requirements