Instrumentation Engineer (Philadelphia)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintenance, reliability, and Capital Project support of instrumentation, safety instrumented systems (SIS), programmable logic controllers (PLC), and field relay logic.
• Gather improvement feedback from Operations, Technical, Reliability & Maintenance teams to improve designs, installations, and increase uptime.
• Identify technology upgrades with application opportunities in capital projects working alongside the Maintenance & Reliability engineers.
• Provide quality control and design reviews of new projects that involve any instrumentation apparatus or systems.
• Create bid packages to obtain engineering services and installation quotes from contractors.
• Provide leadership and oversight for equipment record tracking to ensure correct as-built information is filed and accessible in the document management system.
• Create project estimates and sketches needed to obtain funding.
• Provide assistance in the field during start-ups, testing, tuning and tracking of shutdowns or upsets.
• Provide troubleshooting assistance and Root Cause Failure Analysis expertise and support as needed for equipment failures.
• Initiate Management of Change for Instrumentation related changes and follows MOC process.

Qualifications:

• BS in an Engineering discipline. Skilled in process unit operations.
• Minimum experience, 3 years in the chemical, or oil and gas industry supporting Electrical / Instrumentation in a plant environment.
• Logic proficiencies: Configuration definitions for Bently-Nevada vintages and Woodward products, Triconex logic coding and structured text, PLC ladder logic and function blocks, relay logic & component assembly.
• Willing to be available outside of normal working hours to serve as technical consultant.
• Use engineering design tools for instrument calculations including but not limited to orifice plate sizing, level transmitter span calculations, control valve sizing.