Chemical Engineer - Experienced

Responsibilities

• Understanding and ensuring compliance with relevant health and safety regulations and quality standards.
• Designing and developing new control systems.
• Testing, maintaining, and modifying existing systems.
• Analyzing data and presenting findings in written reports.
• Analyzing challenges in current control processes and recommend appropriate improvement solutions.
• Working together with operation engineers, process engineers to implement new process control model and strategies.
• Develop standards that incorporate the new/modified control system architecture.
• Provide control system support for capital projects.
• Train technical personnel on control and changes.
• Support internal commissions (CAC)
• Project management within cost and time constrained environments.
• Providing advice and consultancy support.
• Purchasing control equipment.
• Writing computer software and test procedures.
• Provide technical support to operations.

Qualifications

Knowledge:

✓ Safety Systems.
• Basic documentation: Safety requirements, specification, logic diagrams, test procedures, safety integrity level.
• Safety system design: I/O assignments, redundancy, software design.
• Testing: Methods, procedures, documentation.
• Management of change: Scope of change, impact of change.
• Codes, standards, and regulations: ANSI, IEE, IEEE, ISA, NFPA.

✓ Control Systems.
• Drawings: P&IDs, loop diagrams, process flow diagrams, ladder diagrams, electrical drawings.
• Basic Processes: 
Basic Control: Regulatory control, feedback control, cascade control, ratio control, PID, split range.
Discrete control.
Boolean algebra.
• HMI: Graphics, alarm management, trending, historical data.
• Configuration and Programming: DCS, PLC´s, hybrid systems, SQL, ladder logic, sequential function chart.

Requirements:

• BS in Chemical Engineering, electronic, electrical, or mechanical.
• 3-5 years working in a manufacturing environment.
• Prior experience in Process Safety Management (PSM) environment preferred.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to contribute effectively as an individual and within a team.
• Initiative and ability to plan, prioritize, and work with minimal supervision.