TARGETED OUTCOMES

• Provide technical support, guidance, and expertise for all phases of instrumentation predictive maintenance lifecycle, including project scope, engineering, implementation, and optimization.
• Install, Support, maintain Instrumentation predictive maintenance solutions across multiple sites.
• Support the implementation of modern document management solutions for instruments and equipment on a corporate scale
• System Life Planning, which can include but not limited to the development and implementation of a migration plan from one predictive maintenance program platform to another.
• Act as a technical resource and administrator for process data historian instances for US and foreign-based manufacturing facilities
• Provide technical support and act as the liaison between various IT departments such as IT security, networking and infrastructure teams, and manufacturing site personnel on projects related to the digital transformation efforts

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support the predictive maintenance program for all the manufacturing facilities across the company as a IT/OT technical resource.
• Work closely with manufacturing units and reliability engineers to define predictive maintenance application cases and support their implementation. Maintain OT servers in compliance by applying windows patches and software hotfixes.
• Develop knowledge of existing processes to identify process control improvement opportunities.
• Work with multi-disciplined teams to design, develop and implement solutions for manufacturing processes.
• Support development of key performance indicators by leveraging automation knowledge and being a technical resource for both manufacturing and MES/ERP teams.
• Leverage Six Sigma techniques to improve process performance and efficiency.
• Act as a remote resource to reliability engineers for any general questions, technical support or vendor support requests.

TEAM

• Reports to: OT/IT Business Manager

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 5 years of experience in chemical, refinery, or energy manufacturing processes
• Working knowledge of Process Control systems in a manufacturing environment
• Experience with DCS programming and process information management, preferably DeltaV
• Working knowledge of DeltaV, AMS, Instrumentation, and equipment predictive maintenance technology.
• Working knowledge of networking, firewall, cybersecurity skills.

DESIRED EXPERIENCE

• Experience in digital transformation for chemical process control and instrumentation highly preferred
• 3 years of experience with OT or digital transformation initiatives for chemical process control and instrumentation.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• DCS programming understanding as applied to batch or continuous production process control, data communication, data collection and display systems
• Understanding of the reliability, documentation and Management of Change requirements imposed by process control systems
• Demonstrated ability to work as both an individual contributor as well as part of larger teams
• Good time management skills and ability to prioritize assigned tasks
• Positive attitude and open mind approach to problem solving
• Demonstrated ability to apply Continuous Improvement Tools
• Strong initiative to identify and address areas for improvement
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment and effectively manage multiple complex projects

REQUIRED EDUCATION

• BS in Chemical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or an equivalent relative experience of 6 years.