Instrumentation Reliability Engineer

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Marathon Petroleum Company’s (MPC) St. Paul Park Refining Division has an opening for an Instrumentation Reliability Engineer II. We are seeking a motivated, team-oriented individual to provide technical and reliability engineering support for refinery instrumentation, analyzers, control valves, and associated control and protective systems.

• Provide technical and troubleshooting support for process instrumentation, control valves, analyzers, and associated control and protective systems.
• Troubleshoot recurring and complex instrumentation problems involving pressure, temperature, flow, level, vibration, analytical measurements, and final control elements.
• Analyze equipment history and failure trends to identify instrumentation bad actors and emerging reliability threats.
• Utilizes reliability tools such as reliability analytics, failure evaluations, and cost analysis to improve reliability of instrument and analyzer equipment/systems.
• Writes PRFs for reliability improvement projects, equipment upgrades, etc. including financial justification (life cycle cost analysis) and facilitates DSP development.
• Champions MOC as appropriate.
• Reviews turnaround work lists and scopes for critical equipment.
• Helps establish equipment monitoring plans and control limits.
• Ensure repairs and installations meet/exceeds applicable OEM requirements, company specifications, engineering standards, and industry practices.
• Develops and maintains instrumentation, control, and Safety Instrumented System (SIS) settings and specifications, as applicable.
• Develops and manages system studies with applicable analysis tools.
• Conducts post-audits to measure the effectiveness of significant reliability related projects and activities.
• Provides technical assistance to aid decision-making on repair solutions during turnarounds and unplanned equipment outages.
• Reviews corporate specifications for potential improvement based on industry and site-specific experience as appropriate.
• Provides technical expertise and support to capital project development.

Minimum (Required) Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering required.
• Two (2) years or more of experience required
• A valid driver's license
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. on a full-time indefinite basis without the need for employment visa sponsorship now or in the future.
• Able to work off-hour duties such as plant shutdowns and routine on-call support.
• Able to wear appropriate PPE in the refinery and be able to physically perform all tasks in the field.
• Develop and optimize preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance strategies for instrumentation and analyzer equipment based on equipment criticality, failure history, and performance.

• Three (3) plus years of post-degree engineering experience working with instrumentation in the refining, petrochemical, or other related heavy industry.
• Experience with instrument system design, applicable standards, and repairs as well as associated equipment specific failure modes are preferred.
• Experience with Rosemount and Honeywell instruments/transmitters, Honeywell control systems, analyzers, Triconex SIS, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and emergency shutdown systems (ESDs).
• Experience with pressure, temperature, flow, level transmitters, and process analyzers.
• Experience with control valves, actuators, positioners, and final control elements.
• Experience with DCS, PLC, SIS, and ESD systems.
• Knowledge of instrumentation failure…