Process Control Engineer

INEOS•Alvin, TX

4d•$125,000 - $178,500•Onsite

About The Position

The Olefins & Polymers USA division of INEOS is a major producer of olefins and polyolefins in North America. The Chocolate Bayou Site, located in Southeastern Texas, comprises two Olefins units, two Polypropylene units, and light ends storage & transfer facilities. This Lead Process Control Engineer role is part of the Process Control and Operational Technology team, supporting daily unit operations, advanced applications, process control infrastructure systems, and projects across O&P USA. The role will lead unit process control engineers, support advanced DCS applications, and perform hands-on projects for the Chocolate Bayou site and pipeline supply organization (PSO).

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree + 10-15 years (Chemical/ Electrical / Instrumentation/ Control Systems)
Strong knowledge of Honeywell Experion Systems (TDC & Experion)
Strong knowledge of Alarm management and loop tuning systems
Client Service Oriented, Skill in partnering with internal customers at all levels to define problems, identify solutions, and facilitate change
Impact and influence, able to persuade others to a particular course of action
Teamwork shares accountability for team results and utilizes interpersonal skills to improve team performance
Analytical and conceptual thinking, able to understand both the details and the underlying systemic issues in order to plan and implement creative and effective solutions to business challenges
Innovative and information seeking, monitors internal and industry trends to identify new opportunities.
Organizes work effectively and uses available resources
Anticipate problems and adjust accordingly
Demonstrated ability to manage progress and deliver multiple and competing priorities.
Ability to manage multiple projects, activities and tasks simultaneously
Strong estimating skills and practical understanding of costs (capital, operating & lifecycle)
Strong knowledge of Honeywell DCS (TPS, EPKS), architecture, networks etc.
Strong understanding of the Control systems Architecture, data mapping (data flows) between DCS and the MES
Strong understanding of Networking, Virtualization infrastructure, LCN infrastructure, fiber optic networks.
Ability to perform communication between the DCS and the 3rd party systems is required.

Nice To Haves

Hexagon Plant PAS State Integrity (PSI) and control wizards are preferred solutions
Experience in migrating from LCN to ELCN is preferred.
Knowledge of PLC’s (AB / Triconex/ HIMA) and their operations is desirable.

Responsibilities

Meet all SHE objectives and comply with all governmental laws and policies for a manufacturing site.
Ensure process hazards are systematically identified, risk assessed, reviewed and managed.
Always place safe operation or shutdown of the asset ahead of production.
Ensure assets operating envelopes and protective systems are in place to deliver safe operation and maintain asset integrity.
Identify and establish operating, maintenance, and CAPEX strategies to drive asset integrity and environmental compliance.
Promote, ensure and sustain commitment to operating assets with no harm to people and to the environment by visibly demonstrating Safety Leadership.
Ensure that a comprehensive SHE management process delivers and improves safety performance through incident reporting, behavioral awareness, compliance to policies, audits, and corrective action tracking/resolution and incident investigation.
Organize, lead and support site safety committees and emergency response teams.
Technical assurance for the timely front end engineering design for capital projects.
Lead assigned projects from early FEL to completion.
Responsible for interface with project management to ensure projects success in terms of functionality, budget and scope.
Manage project scope and provide technical guidance to process control engineers’ / control system engineers.
Work seamlessly with other pertaining groups such as instrumentation/ analyzers & operations to identify interfaces and solving any potential hurdles for project execution.
Responsible for all project pertaining documentations and related MOC’s that are assigned.
Interface with site leadership & operations to ensure projects installed are turned over to operations and functional as designed.
Provide Process control engineering quality assurance of the EPC deliverables.
Ensure Process control standards are followed in all assigned projects; work with technical authority and Team leads to address any standard deviations.
Complete all related documentation from project inception to startup.
Update all drawings pertaining to PSIM (P&ID’s, Loop Drawings, CFD’s, Drawings etc.).
Expected post project plant support for all projects.
Support all phases of assigned capital projects including equipment selection, installation, configuration, start-up, checkout, and supervision of personnel contracted for specialized equipment installation.
Responsible for identifying reliability issues and recommending solutions for system improvements.
Serve as a technical leader and keep to date technologies and work with Team Leaders and Technical Authority to create roadmaps.
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to recent graduates and site process control engineers.
Assign activities to recent grad process control engineers in the team and ensure successful outcomes are achieved.
Act as the site SME DCS and Process Control resource.
Source of knowledge and expertise in the application of process control technology and communication protocols.
Drive optimization effort and improvement with unit process control engineers (alarm management, loop tuning...etc.).
Key resource for site engineers for advice on specification and guidance issues.
Develop, maintain and review site process control related procedures, standards and runbooks.
Utilize background in engineering tools, systems, practices commonly used in the petrochemical and pipelines industries to peer assist sites and specific projects as appropriate.