Senior Engineer - Process Controls

TotalEnergies Group; Port Arthur (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

TotalEnergies Group in Port Arthur is seeking an experienced Senior Control Systems Engineer to administer and optimize the refinery DCS, data historians, and real-time environmental calculations. You will coordinate with Central Control Operators, Unit Supervisors, and Engineers to ensure safety, environmental and mechanical integrity across process units.

You will oversee 24/7 support, advise on projects, and guide contractor activities while maintaining secure, up-to-date DCS platforms and

Qualifications

• BS/BE in Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Process Control Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years in industrial process control, DCS/SIS, instrumentation, PCs and networks.
• Experience with Honeywell Experion PKS, TDC-3000/2000, and Honeywell PHD/OSI PI data historians.

Responsibilities

• Monitor DCS and Historians performance and troubleshoot view/control issues.
• Collaborate with control room staff and engineers to improve unit performance within safety and mechanical integrity boundaries.
• Support capital projects ensuring DCS compatibility and upgrades.
• Provide data and participate in incident investigations related to controls.
• Ensure cyber-security and backup strategies for DCS assets.

Skills

DCS engineering

Process control

OSI PI

Honeywell Experion PKS

PI data historian

Education

BS in Chemical or Electrical Eng

Tools

Honeywell DCS

TDC-3000

TDC-2000

Experion PKS

PI historian

Job description

Workplace location PORT ARTHUR-PORT ARTHUR REFINERY(TX-USA)

Dominio Technology

• Monitor performance of DCS, PHD/PI Historians and Environmental/COCL systems. Identify, troubleshoot and correct all impending view/control issues for Safety, Environmental, Economic, and Mechanical Integrity performance.
• Work directly with Central Control Operators, Unit Supervisors, Unit Process Engineers, and Environmental Engineers to improve unit control/performance within environmental and mechanical integrity boundaries.
• Support expense and capital projects to ensure new designs do not jeopardize the integrity of PAR’s control systems.
• Provide chronological alarm, event, and process data and participate in control related incident investigations.
• Monitor performance of regulatory control loops; including tuning loops and implement alternate control strategies as needed.
• Ensure all DCS assets are protected from internal and external cyber-security threats, and are kept current and at vendor supported release level. Identify and implement technology LifeCycle updates as required.
• Ensure all DCS assets are backed up to allow a quick recovery and continuity of business in the event of a disaster.
• Direct activities of contract Honeywell Site Support Specialist.
• Provide system level support for Advanced Process Control (APC) applications - DMC+/ANAMEL.
• Provide technical expertise and support to other Total sites.
• Provide guidance to engineering contractors for all DCS related project activities, including assigning instrument and DCS tagnames and system I/O addressing, developing DCS point/graphic configurations and integrating said controls into system.
• Train operators on new control schemes and support loop-check activities during check-out and start-up of new processes

Technically administer all aspects of the refinery Distributed Control System (DCS), Data Historians (PHD/PI), and real-time Environmental/COCL calculations. This position ensures that Operations maintains view and control of the process units in order to meet Safety, Environmental, Economic, and Mechanical Integrity goals. It also provides Process Control support for all Capital Projects ensuring technical compatibility, to include configuration and commissioning of the projects.

• Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Process Control Engineering, or other related field of study.
• 5+ years of experience in industrial process control, DCS systems, SIS systems, Field Instrumentation, Microsoft Operating Systems, Dell server grade PC’s and Workstations, Cisco Ethernet switching networks.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in the design, installation, startup and ongoing support of Honeywell Experion PKS, TDC-3000, and TDC-2000 DCS systems and Honeywell PHD/ OSI PI data historians.
• Good oral and written communication skills. Be able to communicate technical responses at both the management and operator level.
• Possess strong analytical skills to be able to think through a problem, evaluate all of the facts, and reach a satisfactory solution.
• Well organized with the ability to multi-task, work alone or in a team environment.
• Excellent customer support and personal relation skills.
• Self-motivated and goal oriented.
• Available by phone 24-7 for call out on holidays, off shift, and week-ends

Administer 3 Honeywell DCS platforms spanning 40yrs of technology. Estimated replacement cost is ~$200MM.

• TDC-2000 - 7 Data Hiways, 147 Hiway Nodes.
• TDC-3000 - 4 LCN Networks, 5 UCN Networks, 74 LCN Connected Nodes, 1 GUS Station, 7 HPM’s, 2 APM’s.
• Experion - 9 Experion Communities, 11 Server Clusters, 56 Operator Stations, 96 FTE Switches, 20 Firewalls, 64 C300 Controllers, 6 PCN Printers, 17,000 Control Loops, 70,000+ Process Indicators, 3,100+ Process/SIS Graphics.
• Misc PCN Devices - 93 L-3/3.5 application servers consisting of: Engineering Workstations, APC, VMWare Hosts, DOC4000, Field Device Manager, Time Synch, Digital Video Monitor, Analyzer Interface, Domain Controllers, Alarm Management, Backup & Restore, File Servers, Data Archivers, Event Archivers, PHD Collectors/Shadow Server, PI Buffer Node, Inventory Management, McAfee ePO, MS WSUS, etc.

• Administer: PHD/PI Data Historians - 71,336 PHD Tags, 51,092 PI Tags; Environmental calculations - 1,100 tags; COCL calculations - 400 tags.
• Support approximately 25 Capital Projects per year per individual.

• Provide 24-7 support to: 44 Central Control Operators, 8 Unit Supervisors, 4 Area Superintendents, 4 Process Coordinators, 8 Process Support Engineers, 3 APC Engineers, 16 Instrument Techs, 8 Analyzer Techs,

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to protected characteristics, including disability and protected veteran status.