DCS Specialist

The DCS Specialist will lead the implementation of the overall control system from the detailed design phase through the commissioning and turnover phases for the new Blue Point site, ensuring a safe, efficient, reliable, and environmentally friendly plant.

Requirements

• Participate in-person, at the kick-off, design review, and pre-inspection meetings at vendor’s offices.
• Review and comment on functional design specifications and hardware/software design documentation.
• Provide technical leadership to the control system vendor in developing software typical including control loops and graphics layouts; and ensure established typical are maintained in all control system sub systems.
• Work closely with Process engineers, I&E engineers, and Operations representatives to ensure control and safety functions are properly implemented.
• Travel domestically and globally to attend factory and module yard acceptance testing of DCS, SIS, and PLC systems as required.
• Lead site acceptance testing of DCS, SIS, and PLC systems including loop checks, logic verification, and functional testing.
• Assist the IT team to integrate the site control systems into various other business systems.
• Identify and resolve control system problems during all project phases.
• Participate in plant start up, commissioning, and turnover.
• Work with key site stakeholders to develop site procedures pertaining to all control systems.
• Write, modify, and implement complex process control logic, including interlocks, using proprietary control system language and standard industry protocols such as function blocks, ladder logic, and structured text.

Benefits

• FMLA
• Employee Polygraph Protection Act