Lead Advanced Process Control Engineer

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Our client in Toledo, OH and one of the largest independent petroleum refiners in the United States has a petroleum refinery with a an opening for a Lead Advanced Process Control Engineer. As the Lead Advanced Process Control Engineer manage a group of Control Engineers and and work closely with existing APC team members, and the Operations and Technical departments to support the refinerys control system applications.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of process control system and application professionals
• Report directly to the Technical Manager
• Prepare and manage budget for Process Control System Department
• Responsible for supporting process control system reliability, alarm management system, model-based advanced control solution, and ensuring consistency of installed applications across the facility
• Responsible for monitoring and optimization of the process control applications used by the business unit
• Responsible for ensuring proper technical support for operations troubleshooting
• Champion development of process control capital projects which includes re-instrumentation, APC and control engineering in support of refinery capital plan.
• Participate in the justification of projects, as they related to process control system infrastructure, and modernizations among multiple departments.
• Ensure that project designs and modifications to existing systems adhere to process control and cybersecurity best practices.
• Assist in the selection and application of process control technology consistent with the business units strategy
• Develop staffing strategies to meet the demands for engineering and technical resources
• Clearly set and drive expectations of direct reports and communicate concerns or issues with Technical Department Manager
• Facilitate training for APC Engineers and Control System Specialists / Analysts as needed
• Provide process control engineering support to Area Business Team (ABT) as assigned
• Provide process control engineering support to turnaround group at scope development, planning, and execution stages as assigned
• Provide support to ensure process control capital project success at proposal, design, and construction stages as assigned
• Provide input and complete assigned Advanced Process Control reports; maintain neat and Advanced Process Control files for the refinery (paper and electronic)
• Ability to communicate and report at a high level to Upper Management

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering or similar field of study
• 10+ years in Refining or Petrochemical
• Must have Honeywell and Process Engineering experience
• Familiarity with industry process safety and environment regulations, work practices, and compliance strategies as well as knowledge of basic refinery processes, reliability principles, refining economics and basic budgeting and scheduling.
• US or US Green Holders apply only.My client won't sponsor or approve TN-1 Visa's.