Sr Process Control Engineer

Oxy Chem Job Opportunity

Contribute. Grow. Lead...with Oxy Chem. Looking for a challenge? Desire to achieve your true potential? Oxy Chem is a growing, action-oriented, safety driven chemical manufacturing company continually striving to be the best in the business while staying focused on environmental protection. The secret to our success has and will continue to be our people.

Oxy Chem, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a leading producer of essential chemistry with operations in the U.S., Canada and Latin America. Oxy Chem's products play an essential role in everyday life, supporting critical applications in water treatment, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, manufacturing, automotive, personal hygiene, and residential and commercial construction. Oxy Chem actively participates in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Voluntary Protection Program, underscoring our commitment to safety.

Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Oxy Chem is a top three U.S. manufacturer of polyvinyl chloride, chlor-alkali and chlorinated organic chemicals, and calcium chloride.

In a fast-paced industry that demands precision, we create a supportive workplace where the safety and well-being of our employees are paramount. We are committed to rewarding top performers, offering very competitive pay and benefits, and providing tremendous career development opportunities.

• Maintain protection of the environment and the health and safety of our employees, customers, and the communities in which we operate and/or transport our products, as our highest priority.
• Provide technical guidance on the operation and optimization of the Deer Park VCM site's Distributed Control System (DCS).
• Provide expertise by providing an exceptional level of technical skills with DCS controls/instrumentation.
• Prepare scopes, estimates and schedules of proposed control system projects. Coordinate control and instrument tasks for the successful completion of projects.
• Assist with configuration, installation, and maintenance of electronic microprocessor-based instrument control systems including, but not limited to, DCS/SIS control systems, PLC's, serial interfaces, and historians.
• Manage standalone instrumentation and control projects.
• Develop programming documentation for reference in process hazards reviews, layers of protection analysis, fault tree, and other hazard analysis methods.
• Provide recommendations on up-to-date process control systems and cost-effective technologies.
• Assist operating facility's DCS operations and performance by providing technical support and troubleshooting and recommend the development of programs for improvement.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge in; specifying field instrumentation, specifying analyzer systems, developing schematics including motor controls, interfacing third party packages to the DCS/SIS systems.
• Oversee the field construction, verification of proper installation, performance of loop checks and the oversight of final commissioning of DCS/PLC equipment and instrumentation associated with capital projects.
• Define spare parts and preventative maintenance requirements for DCS and related components.

• Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or related field with 5– 20 years of DCS design, programming, troubleshooting, and maintenance experience.
• Additional desired qualifications:
  Honeywell Experion/TDC
  3000 DCS experience, Triconex PLC experience, Allen Bradley Control Logix PLC experience.
• High proficiency in Microsoft applications (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)
• Strong troubleshooting and problems solving abilities
• Proficient written and verbal skills. Ability to read, write and speak in English.
• Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to work as part of a team.
• Must be able to respond to off hour emergencies.

• Good working knowledge of SAP.

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