DCS Technician

Flint Hills Resources in Corpus Christi, Texas is looking for a DCS Technician to join our team. If you are looking for a way to accelerate your career and be part of an industry‑leading company, this may be the opportunity for you! Flint Hills Resources, LC operates oil refineries, chemical plants, and biofuels facilities across North America and is part of Koch Industries, a global leader in several industrial markets.

At our Corpus Christi refinery, DCS technicians are recognized as subject matter experts (SMEs) regarding the specification, installation, maintenance, configuration, life‑cycle management, reliability/availability, troubleshooting, upgrading, and the best practices of DCS applications in current use in the plant and as recommended by the vendor and industry. Our DCS technicians apply their knowledge and talents while collaborating daily with (DCS) Board Operators, Process Control Engineers, IT engineers, and Project Engineers, their design teams, and project stakeholders to achieve stable site operations and business‑focused results.

The primary DCS technology at Corpus Christi refinery is Emerson Delta

V. We interface the Delta

V with Allen‑Bradley and Triconex PLCs, and our plant uses HART device alerts from Delta

V in our AMS system.

• Assist instrument and analyzer techs and electricians with troubleshooting unexpected data to or from or within the DCS.
• Collaborate with DCS console operators to make operability improvements, including DCS graphics modification and alarm management and rationalization.
• Collaborate with process control engineers in the development, implementation, and improvement of DCS‑based advanced control strategies, including state‑based control, transition automation, and model predictive control; implement configuration for supervisory controls capabilities.
• Collaborate with project engineers to guide project scopes that economically meet expected business outcomes.
• Collaborate with project designers, from reserving system IO and performing field walk‑downs to providing the guidance necessary for their development of complete and error‑free IFC project design packages.
• Implement DCS vendor hot‑fixes and security updates; upgrade DCS system hardware and software without interrupting the process.
• Proactively frame‑up and recommend improvements to DCS installed equipment to meet potential future needs of customers and users.
• Collaborate with instrument techs and DCS console operators in the commissioning of new or modified DCS configuration and enabling HART communications for smart field devices.
• Collaborate with peers at other FHR sites, sharing what you know and learning from them.
• Collaborate with IT engineers in the network design, hardware selection, commissioning, monitoring, and troubleshooting of outside‑of‑the‑DCS network communication.
• Troubleshoot OPC, Modbus, and Ethernet interfaces with foreign‑to‑DCS devices.
• Support remote logins to the DCS.
• Troubleshoot unexpected "loss of data" events with process and environmental engineers.
• Proactively monitor the health of DCS hardware.
• Available for on‑call rotation.