DCS Specialist

Job Summary

The DCS Specialist will lead implementation of the overall control system from detailed design through commissioning and turnover for the Blue Point site, ensuring a safe, efficient, reliable and environmentally friendly plant. The successful candidate will possess technical expertise in distributed control systems (DCS), safety instrumented systems (SIS) and programmable logic controllers (PLC). This position requires a combination of office and field work ranging from document reviews to troubleshooting control system software and assisting I&E technicians with hands‑on troubleshooting of hardware.

• 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 typical software including control loops and graphics layouts, and 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.

• Position
  
  Reports To:
  
  I&E Supervisor
• Subordinate Positions: None

• Practical knowledge of operating and maintaining safety instrumented systems per IEC 61511.
• Possesses strong cyber security values and will ensure all installations/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 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.

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