Senior PI Administrator,Production Systems

Overview

Senior PI Administrator, Plant Technology based in Arlington, VA. The Senior PI Administrator, Plant Technology is responsible for managing OSI PI services including PI Vision, PI Data Link, PI Analytics, and Asset Framework. The Senior level is expected to have advanced knowledge of the PI system and to mentor PI Admins. This position is structured within IT under the Vice President of Plant Technology.

The role facilitates the implementation of PI services development, processes, strategies, and procedures. It requires translating business requirements into PI Vision screens or analytics and working with contractors and vendors to develop data inputs and automated interfaces.

• Management of all OSI PI services including PI Vision, PI Data Link, PI Analytics, and Asset Framework
• Implementation of best practices and governance regarding the PI system or development
• Develop Asset Framework modules and hierarchies with a focus on automation and scalability
• Mentor PI Admins, guide PI Admins on best practices, and support issues
• Understand business issues and formulate solutions and team tasks
• Identify opportunities for optimization or architecture improvements and plan implementations
• Develop user guides, establish best practices documentation, and conduct training on PI services
• Document scope of PI projects, coordinate with vendors, perform vendor evaluation and selection, and monitor vendor performance
• Support production excellence and Operations Engineering during process troubleshooting by developing required screens for engineering analysis
• Support AI / Advanced Analytics development for Integrated Production Excellence and provide technical support to transform data into insights for real-time optimization
• Maintain PI Historian and other infrastructure components to ensure data integrity and availability
• Develop OSI PI Vision screens and institute best practices
• Develop calculated tags, alerts, and event frames
• Perform system integrations of PI tags (to or from systems)
• Lead OSI PI workshops and IT architecture builds for current and future plants, collaborating with the business on screens, tags, asset framework, and security
• Develop Corporate PI screens to aggregate production data as new plants come online
• Provide insights into strategies for installing, maintaining, organizing, and expanding real-time capabilities
• Troubleshoot and support break-fixes or issues with PI tags displaying correct values
• Analyze and optimize compression rates for PI tag transfers

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Engineering, Mathematics, IT, Business, or related field
• 7+ years in OSI PI administration
• Proficient in PI Vision development, PI Data Link development, Asset Framework hierarchy builds, conditional alerting, and PI Analytics
• Proficient in integrating data sources with OSI PI Data Archive
• Experience leading workshops with multiple stakeholders
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with strong critical thinking and attention to detail
• Strong work ethic with ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, adapt to changing priorities and business needs, and succeed in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to summarize and prioritize information effectively

• Experience in Azure cloud services
• Experience in SQL
• Familiarity with transferring PI data to Azure Data Lake
• Experience in agile development and sprint planning
• Strong technical writing skills

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