CF Industries

CF Industries

DCS Specialist

Modeste,LA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 28 days ago
Machine LearningLogisticsRecruitingPLCControlsLeadership

About the role

  • The successful candidate will possess technical expertise in the areas of distributed control systems (DCS), safety instrumented systems (SIS), and programmable logic controllers (PLC).
  • Work closely with Process engineers, I&E engineers, and Operations representatives to ensure control and safety functions are properly implemented.
  • Assist the IT team to integrate the site control systems into various other business systems.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Lead site acceptance testing of DCS, SIS, and PLC systems including loop checks, logic verification, and functional testing.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • Practical knowledge of operating and maintaining safety instrumented systems per IEC61511.
  • Experience with alarm management software including implementation of an alarm management philosophy, and operational alarm audits
  • Knowledge of routine DCS maintenance tasks such as back up methods, anti-virus patching, and online hardware replacements
  • Experience with high availability server installations running hypervisor and KVM environments.
  • Ability to identify improvements to complex control schemes implemented across multiple controllers including on PLC, BPCS, and SIS
  • Ability to translate technical documentation such as cause-and-effect diagrams and control narratives into working DCS configuration
  • Travel domestically and globally to attend factory and module yard acceptance testing of DCS, SIS, and PLC systems as required.

Nice to have

  • Academic degree, certifications and/or licenses
  • More than 8 years of related work experience at a chemical or manufacturing plant.
  • Previous experience as an I&E technician
  • Experience with Yokogawa or Emerson Delta V control system programming
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