Senior Instrument Engineer – Baytown, TX

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Baytown, Texas, is a community of more than 77,000 people located on the Gulf Coast, east of Houston. Exxon Mobil’s Baytown Complex sits on about 3,400 acres along the Houston Ship Channel and employs more than 8,500 people across its sites, including the Baytown Refinery and Baytown Olefins Plant. Our products include fuels, lubricants, and chemical compounds used in a wide range of everyday products.

The Baytown area sites are highly integrated to develop cleaner fuels and operate more safely and reliably.

Provide instrument engineering expertise at Exxon Mobil Baytown, TX.

The work includes engineering design, configuration, programming, maintenance, troubleshooting, failure analysis, and performance analysis to support safe and reliable operations of instrumentation equipment within the Complex, including:

• Field instrumentation for process measurement (e.g., pressure, temperature, level, and flow) and specialty measurements (density, vibration) and control valves, shutdown valves, and their transmission systems (e.g., 4-20 mA, HART, Profibus).
• Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS)
• Machinery controls and protection systems
• Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) for monitoring and control of packaged systems
• Instrumentation cabling, wiring, junction boxes, power supply and distribution, UPS, and associated TCP/IP, SCADA, Modbus networking (switches, routers, Ethernet, fiber optics, etc.)

• Sizing and specifying various types of instrumentation for new or existing instruments undergoing a change
• Supporting the maintenance team and interfacing with vendors and contractors to maintain, troubleshoot, repair/replace, configure/tune/program, test/commission/de-commission, etc.
• Supporting development of equipment strategies, understanding the impact of equipment sparing, redundancy, reliability, availability, maintainability, and maintenance cost in support of operations excellence and capital efficiency
• Participating in activities related to safety, risk assessment and safety incident investigations related to instrumentation equipment

Primary contributions will be at the individual contributor level with close interfaces within the immediate work group and interfaces with other disciplines within engineering and maintenance.

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Electrical / Electronic Engineering or equivalent
• Understand the principles of fundamental process measurements (e.g., pressure, temperature, level, and flow)
• Able to size and specify various types of instrumentation (e.g., flow meters, control valves, shutdown valves) under the guidance of experienced resources
• Understand Instrumentation Society of America (ISA) and American Petroleum Association (API) Symbols and Process and Instrumentation Diagram and how to read a P&
• Understand basics of piping for instruments, tubing and fittings, signal transmission media, communication hardware and software, and basic process and safety requirements for field devices
• 3+ years of working experience related to petrochemical industry or design institute
• Demonstrated understanding of overall Instrumentation and Control (I&C) requirements and design principles and knowledge of field measurement and control devices and their proper application
• Knowledge of troubleshooting techniques, performance analysis and the ability to solve field problems and familiarity with measurement and control devices from major vendors in the industry
• Sound knowledge and experience in equipment engineering specifications and standards, including industry standards
• Knowledge of safety system hardware,…