What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Engineer, Instrumentation position at Messer?
Company Description
Messer is the largest privately held industrial gas business in the world, and a leading industrial and medical gas company in North and South America. Messer offers over 120 years of expertise in industrial, medical, specialty, and electronic gases and safely delivers quality gases, related services and technology via an extensive production and distribution network.
The Messer Group GmbH is a supplier of industrial gases. Business is focused on 30 European and Asian countries. The company headquarters are located in Bad Soden. Messer is selling gases for industrial use like oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, helium, shielding gases and gases for medical use.
Job Description
Job Summary :
Messer owns and operates a large portfolio of industrial gas plants, including ASU, CO2, H2, He, as well as on-site plants, serving customers within a wide range of industries. Instrumentation and automation are key components required for operation of these industrial gas plants. This position will report to the Area Maintenance and Reliability Hub Team, supporting the Area Operations Teams, providing technical engineering support and SME recommendations for all instrumentation, analytical, and controls equipment utilized within the facilities in the area.
Principal Responsibilities :
- Provides technical, troubleshooting and maintenance support to all ASU, CO2, H2, and He plants within the area for all instrumentation equipment including PLC / DCS hardware, control wiring, I / O, transmitters, positioners, control valves, pneumatic systems, metering systems, and analytical equipment.
- Provides day to day plant instrumentation and associated low voltage electrical support where qualified; to operations and assists with execution of small improvement projects.
- Experienced with redlining, maintaining, and developing necessary electrical and instrumentation documentation including wiring schematics, elementary drawings, layout drawings, I / O drawings, cable and conduit schedules, panel schedules, & loop drawings.
- Supports plant instrument technicians with troubleshooting and repair of failed instrumentation, including MOC guidance, plant / equipment outage decision making, repair plan, and root cause analysis
- Identify, define, estimate, develop, and execute instrumentation turnaround maintenance activities including instrument replacement, upgrades, new installations, calibrations, and functional checks. Provide supervision and oversight for Instrument technicians and external contractors
- Manage and provide technical support to instrument contractors to ensure accurate scope completion, proper documentation updates, standards compliance, and applicable code compliance (ISA, IEEE, NEC, NFPA, etc.).
- Complete area instrumentation technical reviews of MOCs and provide supplemental engineering data, drawings, analysis as necessary.
- Supports the certification process of all area Instrumentation Technicians in regard to ISA CCST (Certified Control Systems Technician) Level I, Level II & Level III
- Provides guidance and supports required training for the ISA certification process of all area technicians, ensuring proper knowledge and practical training around utilization of instrumentation equipment within each Messer plant in the area.
- Travels as required.
Qualifications
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Additional Information
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