DCS Specialist

Job Summary

The DCS Specialist will lead the implementation of the overall control system from the detailed design phase through the commissioning and turnover phases for the new Blue Point site, ensuring a safe, efficient, reliable, and environmentally friendly plant.

• 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, including control loops and graphics layouts; ensure established typicals are maintained in all control system subsystems.
• Work closely with Process engineers, I&E engineers, and Operations representatives to ensure control and safety functions are properly implemented.
• Travel domestically and globally to attend factory and module yard acceptance testing of DCS, SIS, and PLC systems as required.
• Lead site acceptance testing of DCS, SIS, and PLC systems including loop checks, logic verification, and functional testing.
• Assist the IT team to integrate the site control systems into various other business systems.
• Identify and resolve control system problems during all project phases.
• Participate in plant start‑up, commissioning, and turnover.
• 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.

• Practical knowledge of operating and maintaining safety instrumented systems per IEC
  61511.
• Strong cyber security values and will ensure all installations and configurations keep the DCS networks secure.
• Experience with alarm management software, including implementation of an alarm management philosophy and operational alarm audits.
• Knowledge of routine DCS maintenance tasks such as backup 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.

• 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.