BAYPORT POLYMERS LLC
Instrumentation Engineer
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Pasadena, TX, USA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Industrial engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- • B.S. in Electrical, Electronic, Instrumentation, ICET, or Controls/Automation Engineering (other engineering/technical degrees will be considered depending on experience)
- • 2 or more years of related experience in a plant environment
- • Experience with control valves, level, pressure, and temperature instruments, and control schemes
- • Familiar with but not limited to Rosemount, Honeywell, Emerson, and Vega instruments
- • DCS and PLC experience
- • Extensive knowledge of instrumentation and analyzer systems and troubleshooting with an emphasis on instrumentation
- • Computer proficient (MS Office, MS Project, SAP)
- • Excellent verbal/written communication
- Ability to plan and manage multiple issues/projects simultaneously
Nice to have
- • Master’s Degree in Electrical, Electronics or Controls/Automation Engineering
- • 10 or more years of manufacturing experience
- • Experience with extruders, temperature controls systems, motor drive systems, and material conveyance systems
- • Knowledge of both production and maintenance engineering
- • Strong problem-solving and leadership skills
- PHYSICAL CAPACITY REQUIREMENTS
- This position requires the incumbent to:
- • Follow site safety requirements for the role and wear mandatory FRC and PPE (foot, head, ear, eye, hand, and fall protection) when inside plant environment or where directed by signage or procedure
- • Read and understand technical documents and procedures in English
- • Specific vision abilities include near, far, and intermediate distances, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception
- • Required to work at ground level, from ladders, and from heights greater than 250’ above grade on fixed platforms, mobile equipment platforms, and scaffolding
- • Ascend and descend stairs and stationary vertical ladders with and without a safety cage
- • Access confined spaces and pressure vessels through standard 24" manways
- • Must be capable of lifting/carrying/pushing/pulling up to 50 pounds
- • Frequent bending, reaching, stooping, crawling, walking, and climbing
- • Sit or stand for extended periods of time
- • Work at computer for significant periods of time throughout the day
- • Required to reach overhead and at shoulder level with hands and arms
Full description
BASIC FUNCTION
Provide technical support to the instrumentation activities of the HDPE and HDA plant with the objective of continuously improving reliability and health, safety, environmental and loss control performance. Provide instrument and electrical technical information based on sound engineering practices to ensure a safe work environment for all plant personnel.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Position General
- Understand, support, and comply with all plant safety policies and procedures, including Lock-Out / Tag-Out (LOTO), hot work, fall protection, traffic, lifting and rigging, confined space entry, and line break.
- Position is located in a chemical processing facility and requires overtime to meet plant needs, including alternative shifts as needed to meet facility needs
- Position requires periodic on-call duties (about 3 out of 52 weeks per year), and the successful candidate must be able to respond 24/7, 100% of the time to plant emergencies on short notice, including nights, weekends, and holidays while on-call
- Complete all assigned training and field observations by deadline
- Contribute to continuous improvement by offering suggestions for long-term solutions to minimize costs, improve reliability, and improve loss control performance
- Ability to read and interpret PFDs and P&IDs
- Work closely with operations, other maintenance personnel, engineering, purchasing and outside contractors
Technical
- Provide direction and technical support to the Reliability Superintendent, other engineers, I&E specialists, Analyzer Specialist and DCS specialists
- Review performance of plant systems and recommend changes regarding operation, maintenance, or testing
- Optimize PMs, end of life strategy, and overall instrumentation and analyzer maintenance strategy
- Assist Operations in advanced troubleshooting instrumentation problems
- Assist in the professional development and cross training of maintenance technicians with primary focus on instruments
- Lead Root cause investigations and failure mode analysis into instrument reliability problems to implement counter measures to prevent recurrence
- Provide engineering assistance and supervision for the justification, design, and installation of capital projects
- Prepare and review engineering documents (i.e., data sheets, loop drawings, and isometric drawings, calculations, specifications, analysis, drawings, evaluations, etc.)
- Provide independent engineering support to Maintenance that requires field investigation, inspections, and solutions to problems, including instrumentation MOCs for feasibility.