Automation Specialist

Airswift; Borger (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, Vision

3% matching 401k

Job summary

Airswift has been tasked to find an Automation Specialist for an initial one-year contract in Borger, Texas. The role involves reviewing, testing, and supporting DCS, SIS, HMI, and SCADA changes within a refinery setting.

Responsibilities include integrating deliverables, supporting Honeywell Experion/C300 and Triconex platforms, and ensuring safety-driven configuration and commissioning activities across FAT, SAT, and startup.

Qualifications

• Experience with integrating, configuring, testing, and commissioning DCS/SIS in process industries.
• Strong documentation and clear communication across operations, maintenance and vendors.

Responsibilities

• Review, test, and support implementation of DCS, SIS, HMI, and SCADA changes.
• Integrate project deliverables into Borger Automation and Control System per approved procedures.
• Support Honeywell Experion/C300 and Triconex-based systems.
• Review and interpret P&IDs, cause-and-effect diagrams, shutdown narratives, and instrument drawings.
• Coordinate configuration and data validation for analog/digital I/O, controllers, and networks.
• Participate in FAT, SAT, loop checks, commissioning, startup, and post-installation verification.
• Verify SIS logic, interlocks, trips, alarms, and bypasses meet safety requirements.
• Develop and follow installation, test, checkout, cutover, and commissioning procedures.
• Manage field questions, discrepancies, redlines, and turnover documentation.

Skills

DCS/SIS integration

HMI/SCADA systems

Industrial automation

Troubleshooting control systems

Field coordination

Tools

Honeywell Experion PKS

Triconex

Job description

Airswift has been tasked by one of our major clients to find a Automation Specialist to work for initially One-Year contract in Borger, Texas.

Work Schedule: 5/40

Job Type: W2 contract (One Year with possibility for extension)

Benefits: Health, Dental, Vision, 3% matching 401k

Key Responsibilities

• Review, test, and support implementation of DCS, SIS, HMI, SCADA, and related control-system application changes.
• Integrate project deliverables into the Borger Automation and Control System in accordance with approved procedures, specifications, and cybersecurity requirements.
• Support Honeywell Experion/C300 and Triconex-based systems, or comparable industrial control and safety platforms.
• Review and interpret P&IDs, cause-and-e?ect diagrams, shutdown narratives, control narratives, system requirements, I/O lists, logic diagrams, alarm requirements, graphics, and instrument documentation.
• Coordinate configuration and data validation for analog and digital I/O, controllers, remote I/O, logic solvers, junction boxes, networks, HMI graphics, SCADA points, alarms, and operator interfaces.
• Participate in and support FAT, software testing, SAT, loop checks, functional testing, SIS testing, startup, commissioning, and post-installation verification.
• Verify that SIS logic, interlocks, permissive, trips, bypasses, alarms, and final-element responses match approved project and process-safety requirements.
• Support alarm configuration and validation in accordance with approved alarm-response assessments, critical-alarm requirements, site standards, and project documentation.
• Develop, maintain, and execute installation, test, checkout, cutover, and commissioning procedures.
• Manage technical questions, field discrepancies, punch-list items, redlines, as-built updates, and turnover documentation through completion.
• Support configuration backup, version control, document control, and traceability of approved system files and changes.
• Follow site requirements for cybersecurity, virus-free file verification, access control, media handling, and transfer of project files to the Automation and Control System.
• Identify technical, schedule, interface, constructability, and operability risks and communicate mitigation needs to the project team.
• Provide field and startup support during planned maintenance windows, turnarounds, and project execution activities, including occasional extended or o?-shift coverage when required by the work scope.
• Promote safe work practices, process safety, management-of-change discipline, and compliance with applicable Phillips 66 procedures and standards.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience integrating, configuring, testing, commissioning, or maintaining industrial DCS and SIS applications.
• Experience working in refining, petrochemical, chemical, power, or another process-industry environment.
• Working knowledge of control-system engineering and implementation documentation, including I/O lists, cause and e?ects, control narratives, shutdown narratives, logic diagrams, alarm requirements, and HMI graphics, marshalling and termination drawings.
• Experience supporting FAT, SAT, loop checks, functional testing, commissioning, startup, or control[1]system cutover activities.
• Ability to troubleshoot control-system, instrumentation, communication, and application issues in a structured and safety-focused manner.
• Ability to read and apply technical specifications, approved procedures, P&IDs, electrical and instrument drawings, and vendor documentation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to coordinate across Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Construction, vendors, and contractors.
• Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and document technical decisions and field results.
• Willingness to work at an operating refinery, including field assignments and occasional o-hours support when required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Honeywell Experion PKS, C300, Honeywell TPS, TDC 3000, Triconex, or comparable DCS/SIS platforms.
• Experience with DCS/SIS migration, modernization, brownfield integration, remote I/O, electronic marshaling, SCADA, HMI, or control-network interfaces.
• Familiarity with SIS lifecycle activities, safety requirements specifications, SIL concepts, LOPA/PHA interfaces, interlock testing, proof-test requirements, and bypass management.