Instrument Engineer

Airswift has been tasked by a major Petrochemical company to seek an Instrument Engineer in Los Angeles, CA to work on a 1-year assignment with the possibility of extension.





Purpose:





The Instrument Engineer, Los Angeles Refinery is a cross-functional leader and advocate for best practices in the selection, implementation, and maintenance of the instrument asset base to ensure that regulatory, production, and optimization objectives are met at LAR, under the direction of the Instrument and Controls Superintendent. The instrument asset base includes all process measurement, SIS and regulatory process control analyzers and instruments.





Responsibilities:


- Serves as lead for asset base troubleshooting, including technical support for the Maintenance, Operations, and Technical Services departments to improve the quality of maintenance repairs, daily operations, engineered modifications, and new equipment installations by resolving questions and issues through familiarity with industry, regulatory, and corporate standards.


- Creates strategies for the development, implementation, monitoring, and coordination of instrument reliability improvement efforts, including preventative maintenance programs.


- Supports the Instrument Mechanical Integrity and Safety Lifecycle programs. - Supports Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) / Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) efforts.


- Reviews, executes and maintains SIL verification calculations for SIS. - Provides Maintenance and Technical Services with guidance and direction regarding safety, reliability, and maintainability for instrument selection in accordance with the site approved manufacturers list (AML).