Instrument & Controls Engineer

Omega AS; Borger, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

NSB Omega in Borger, TX is seeking an Instrument & Controls Engineer for our Oil & Gas client. The role focuses on integrating, testing, and commissioning DCS, SIS, HMI, and SCADA systems in a refinery environment, with emphasis on safety and process integrity.

You will review P&IDs, diagrams, and narratives, support FAT/SAT and turnarounds, and coordinate field installation, data validation, and cybersecurity requirements.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience integrating, configuring, testing, commissioning, or maintaining industrial DCS/SIS applications.
• Experience in refining or petrochemical process industries.
• Ability to read P&IDs, electrical/instrument drawings, and vendor docs.
• Strong written and verbal communication across Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and vendors.

Responsibilities

• Review, test, and support implementation of DCS, SIS, HMI, SCADA, and related control-system changes.
• Integrate deliverables into Borger Automation and Control System per procedures and cybersecurity requirements.
• Support FAT, SAT, loop checks, commissioning, startup, and post-installation verification.
• Coordinate configuration, validation, and documentation of I/O, logic, alarms, and graphics.

Skills

DCS/SIS integration

Industrial control systems

Troubleshooting

Field start-up support

Safety compliance

Tools

Experion PKS

C300

Triconex

SCADA

Job description

NSB Omega is searching for an Instrument & Controls Engineer for our Oil & Gas Client in Borger, TX.

AssignmentDescription

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-eAect 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 oA-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

Working knowledge of control-system engineering and implementation documentation, including I/O

lists, cause and eAects, 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

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 oA-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.

Experience developing or reviewing installation procedures, FAT/SAT plans, test scripts,

commissioning procedures, turnover packages, and punch-list closure documentation.

Knowledge of industrial control-system cybersecurity practices and process-control-network access

controls.

Experience supporting turnaround planning, hot cutovers, cold cutovers, or staged control-system