Senior Instrumentation & Controls Designer

Senior Instrumentation & Controls Designer - Refining
Denver, CO


Overview

10+ years of direct Instrumentation & Control design and engineering experience.
To ensure all engineering and design work performed adjusts to quality, cost, and schedule requirements.
This onsite position is located near Denver, CO in a refinery/ plant environment.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Perform designing/engineering work/deliverables as part of the Instrumentation & Control team.
• Ability to interpret client specifications.
• Coordinate/Communicate with other disciplines and the client.
• Quality Assurance - Responsible for working within the provisions and guidelines of the our client's Quality Assurance system.
• Identify issues and problems, develop appropriate solutions, and ask for assistance when required.
• If required, assist and support junior personnel within the instrumentation & controls engineering team.
• Keep up-to-date with the latest developments and technical innovations in instrumentation & controls engineering.
• If required, act as the instrumentation & controls engineering Lead on specific projects.
• May be required to provide assistance and advice during procurement, construction, and commissioning activities.
• Ensure all engineering and design work performed adjusts to quality, cost, and schedule requirements.
• Ensure all design work is safe and carried out in a safe manner.
• Ensure all design work conforms to the codes and standards used by the client, or to agreed industry standards.

Technical and Industry Experience:

• Working knowledge of Instrumentation & Control deliverables such as:
• Panel (JB and Marshalling) Design.
• P&ID's.
• Loop Drawings.
• Wiring Drawings.
• Motor Control Schematics.
• Instrument Location Drawings.
• Instrument Installation Details.
• Instrument Specifications (Datasheets).
• I/O Lists.
• Bill of Materials.
• Conduit/Tray/Cable Schedules.
• Control Narratives.
• Cause and Effect Diagrams.
• Material Requisitions.
• Construction or Engineering Work Packages.
• Working knowledge of Instrumentation Calculation/Selection, such as:
• Flow (Orifice Plates, Vortex, Venturi, Magnetic, Ultrasonic meters).
• Level Measurement (Radar, Displacers, Gauges).
• Temperature (including Thermowells Freq. wake calculation).
• Process Analysers and sampling systems would be a plus.
• Competent use of instrument calculation/selection specific software.
• Working knowledge (design/configuration/implementation) of any of the following systems:
• PLCs, preferable Modicon, GE, or Rockwell.
• SISs, preferable Triconex.
• DCS, preferable Honeywell TDC/TPS/Experion, Foxboro I/A, ABBxA.
• Working knowledge of industry standards and codes related to Instrumentation & Control system deliverables.
• Being able to work with multiple and concurrently small and medium projects.
• Working knowledge of Computer-Aided Design software.
• Working knowledge of SmartPlant Instrumentation (SPI) software.
• Working knowledge (design/implementation) of Communication Networks is a plus.
• Competent use of relevant software such as MS Office Suite.

Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.