DCS Specialist

CF Industries•Modeste, LA

About The Position

At CF Industries, our mission is to provide clean energy to feed and fuel the world sustainably. Our employees are focused on safe and reliable operations, environmental stewardship, and disciplined capital and corporate management. By joining CF, you will be part of a team that brings their varied experiences, wide-ranging knowledge and diverse talents together to deliver important work and you’ll be able to pursue complex, exciting opportunities that help you continue to grow and achieve your potential in different areas. You’ll take pride in working for a company that lives its values and where you can be yourself at work, as part of an authentic team that encourages you to share your views and opinions. Our eight manufacturing complexes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, an unparalleled storage, transportation and distribution network in North America, and logistics capabilities enabling a global reach underpin our strategy to leverage our unique capabilities to accelerate the world’s transition to clean energy. Function: Maintenance Job Summary: The DCS Specialist will lead the implementation of the overall control system from the detailed design phase through the commissioning and turnover phases for the new Blue Point site, ensuring a safe, efficient, reliable, and environmentally friendly plant. The successful candidate will possess technical expertise in the areas of distributed control systems (DCS), safety instrumented systems (SIS), and programmable logic controllers (PLC). This position requires a combination of office work and field work with job responsibilities varying from document reviews to troubleshooting control system software and assisting I&E technicians with hands-on troubleshooting of control system hardware.

Requirements

Practical knowledge of operating and maintaining safety instrumented systems per IEC61511.
Possesses strong cyber security values and will ensure all installations / configurations keep the DCS networks secure
Experience with alarm management software including implementation of an alarm management philosophy, and operational alarm audits
Knowledge of routine DCS maintenance tasks such as back up methods, anti-virus patching, and online hardware replacements
Experience with high availability server installations running hypervisor and KVM environments.
Ability to identify improvements to complex control schemes implemented across multiple controllers including on PLC, BPCS, and SIS
Ability to translate technical documentation such as cause-and-effect diagrams and control narratives into working DCS configuration

Nice To Haves

Academic degree, certifications and/or licenses
More than 8 years of related work experience at a chemical or manufacturing plant.
Previous experience as an I&E technician
Experience with Yokogawa or Emerson Delta V control system programming

Responsibilities

Participate in-person, at the kick-off, design review, and pre-inspection meetings at vendor’s offices.
Review and comment on functional design specifications and hardware/software design documentation.
Provide technical leadership to the control system vendor in developing software typical including control loops and graphics layouts; and ensure established typical are maintained in all control system sub systems.
Work closely with Process engineers, I&E engineers, and Operations representatives to ensure control and safety functions are properly implemented.
Travel domestically and globally to attend factory and module yard acceptance testing of DCS, SIS, and PLC systems as required.
Lead site acceptance testing of DCS, SIS, and PLC systems including loop checks, logic verification, and functional testing.
Assist the IT team to integrate the site control systems into various other business systems.
Identify and resolve control system problems during all project phases.
Participate in plant start up, commissioning, and turnover.
Work with key site stakeholders to develop site procedures pertaining to all control systems.
Write, modify, and implement complex process control logic, including interlocks, using proprietary control system language and standard industry protocols such as function blocks, ladder logic, and structured text.