What are the responsibilities and job description for the SCADA Product Expert, Pipeline Operations position at Air Liquide USA LLC?
Air Liquide Large Industries provides our customers with industrial gas and energy solutions that are vital to their own industrial production. We own and operate over 2,000 miles of industrial gas pipelines in the U.S. supplying mainly oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and syngas in large quantities from multiple production sources to major customers in the chemicals, petrochemicals, refining and steel industries. Our pipeline operations and industrial gas production facilities are closely monitored 24/7 within our leading-edge operations control center located in Houston, Texas. Our operations control group monitors over 89,000 data points and assists with product supply and coordination. We are constantly optimizing our supply network to provide high reliability and energy efficiencies allowing Air Liquide to adjust supply needs more quickly and effectively enabling growth to our customers.
How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?The SCADA Engineer's mission is to manage the development & support of the GeoSCADA system. The new GeoSCADA system is currently in the implementation phase, this role will be crucial to the deployment of the new system & replacement of the existing SCADA solution. This person is an expert within the Pipeline Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition application and works closely with the Operations Control Center business owners to assist in day-to-day development needs, along with 24 hour emergency support after the system has been deployed. This person serves as the functional point of contact for SCADA System and is the link to the various IT resources needed for successful implementation of business needs.Deploy resources to communicate with DCS, RTUs, and PLCs into GeoSCADA.
Support control room regulatory requirements for HMI screen development, alarm management, change management, and Point-to-Point, in compliance with PHMSA & CRM, as applicable.
Acts as the liaison between users, SCADA Vendor, D&IT PMO (during deployment), and IT technical teams (Security, Infrastructure, Applications, etc.)
Works with the technical teams in the execution and design of application enhancements and digital projects related to, or interfacing with, GeoSCADA.
Facilitate decision making and arbitration relating to trade-offs both within and between GeoSCADA and other applications (ex. Billing, OSI PI)
Install new software releases, patches & program fixes for the pipeline SCADA system
Assists the business users and interface with the other technical support teams in support of application for critical issues.
Ensures uptime of the application and is available to resolve issues as primary point-of-contact for the Operations Control Center outside of working hours.
Configuration & management of the GeoSCADA system tag, alarm, and script database.
Configuration & management of the user accounts to manage access control & security of GeoSCADA.
Understand the interface requirements & manage the technical interface for external & internal business applications.
Evaluate and facilitate purchasing of new hardware used for pipeline device communication.
Documents the functional designs for all enhancements and projects for the GeoSCADA system.
Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate IT personnel as needed.
Support training for new users of the GeoSCADA system.
Assist the users (customers) in acceptance testing, developing procedures, and updating documentation.
5 years experience with ClearSCADA/GeoSCADA product suite
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or a related discipline
10 years experience in: Pipeline Operations, IT, or SCADA operations/applications
Strong knowledge of Pipeline Operations, processes and SCADA applications
Expert in ClearSCADA and/or GeoSCADA applications
Demonstrated understanding of SQL Database operation
Preference to candidates that have Microsoft certification, OR other applicable certifications
Knowledge of pipeline field instrumentation, communication with distributed control systems and networking hardware.
Customer-oriented and service-driven: Precisely answers customer requests, is attentive to customers and initiates new ideas in order to meet customer expectations.
Strong interpersonal skills: Gets to know others and forms relationships, maintains very good relationships with colleagues, respects the ideas and opinions of others.
Team Player:Shares knowledge and experience, cooperates and makes self available, listens, gathers information, takes into consideration the needs, ideas, opinions of others. Ability to achieve consensus between stakeholders with divergent interests.
Problem-Solving: Identifies problem situations within an appropriate time frame, develops several alternative solutions to problems, analyzes situations and highlights important issues, suggests adequate, valuable and feasible solutions.
Decision-making skills: Considers all factors before making a decision, makes quick decisions when necessary and accepts the consequences and risks involved.
Technical Abilities: Masters concepts, tools and methods related to his/her job, meets or exceeds professional requirements, keeps abreast of progress in his/her field.
Initiative: Initiates actions, ideas or solutions spontaneously on his own, undertakes action without waiting for directives, uses all of his/her resources before asking for help, establishes his/her performance objectives and deadlines.
Ability to understand and translate business requirements into technical requirements and vice versa
Working knowledge of the Google Suite of office tools
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At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.
We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.
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