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Position: Field Service Engr I, DCS – Houston, TX
Innovate to solve the world’s most important challenges
Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) is a pioneer in automation control, instrumentation and services for the oil and gas; refining; energy; pulp and paper; industrial power generation; chemicals and petrochemicals; biofuels; life sciences; and metals, minerals, and mining industries.
As a leader in digitization, Honeywell’s comprehensive portfolio in process control, monitoring, and safety systems and instrumentation provides optimized operations and maintenance efficiencies to meet diverse automation needs
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Position Overview:
As a Sr. Field Service Technician, DCS Control Systems you will be joining our Lifecycle Solutions & Services (LSS) business. LSS focuses on providing customers with maintenance and modernization services.
The Sr. Field Service Technician, DCS Control Systems will act as the primary face of Honeywell for the customer and is responsible for design, development, programming, testing of Honeywell DCS-based Control Systems.
You will validate customer requests, developing/maintaining/improving customer relationships, upgrades/migration planning and execution, all while ensuring Right and Fast Delivery.
Location/Relocation:
• List location (Onsite OR Multi site covering – Houston)
• Relocation may be available depending on job and candidate location
Work & Travel
Schedule:
• Typical work week is Monday
-Friday covering one site or multisite with ability to work overtime when needed. Occasional overnight stay
• Be available for off hour “Emergency On-Call” as needed.
• Depending on the service requirements for a particular customer or region, this position may require up to 25% local travel in the (Houston, TX area).
Company Vehicle / Travel Expenses:
• Company vehicle is provided
– Must have valid driver’s license.
• Corporate Travel card will be offered to pay for expenses (No expenses come out of your pocket)
Ideal Candidate:
• 4 + years’ experience with DCS control systems (Honeywell, Emerson, Yokagawa, ABB, Bailey, Siemens, and others while not required will be considered a plus)
• Comfortable leading a team of engineers while overseeing project work and completion.
• Ability to independently design, develop, in-house test, and commission a system at the client location.
• Experience with Software configuration, migration, project engineering experience, virtualization, Cyber process control, electrical, or other application experience
• Development of DCS Logic and Interface software applications compliant with customer/company specifications and/or applicable industry standards
• Development / Execution of Test Procedures
• Remote Support / Troubleshooting of system after installation
Your Focus:
This position will be responsible for execute automation projects from design and implementation to commissioning support at the customer´s site.
You will perform maintenance, audits, configuration, programming, new installation, retrofit, commissioning, upgrades, and migration of complex/advanced multiple generations of Honeywell’s DCS platforms to the current generation Experion DCS family for both new and existing customers on site.
Controls
• Configure/maintain Honeywell DCS based control systems
• Honeywell Visualization (HMI) configuration
• Other controllers, HMIs and general programming languages are a plus
• Controller, I/O, communication module specification, configuration and wiring
• Development of documentation (Functional Specification, Control Narrative, I/O List, Cause and Effect, Operations Manual, Testing Procedure)
Telecommunication
• Knowledge of Network Architecture
• Knowledge of multiple Control Communication Protocols – Ethenet
IP, Modbus, OPC/DA, OPC/UA, Profibus/net, CIP, DLR
• Specification and configuration of plant specific instrumentation
Electrical
• Control System Design (Block Diagram, Panel Layout and Wiring Diagrams, DC Load List, Hazardous Area, etc)
YOU MUST HAVE
• 3 years’ experience with control methodology in DCS, PLC, and HMI platforms
• Strong DCS/PLC background
WE VALUE
• Experion PKS Hardware & Software (Highly desired)
• 3rd Party controls experience
• Remaining current in technology being developed in the field of automation and recommend new fit for purpose technologies
• Detailed Process Control
• Strong electronics background: ability to work with electronic test equipment
• Strong understanding and experience with various programming languages
• Takes initiative on projects and processes.
• Actively partakes in peer team meetings as a lead to further strengthen engineer teams.
• Served as technology expert and support to Sr./Project Manager
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