Control Systems Specialist

Job Summary :

The Control Systems Specialist supports day-to-day operations for Central Valley Renewable Fuels (CVRF) ensuring control systems are reliable, efficient, and operating as expected. This role collaborates closely with Operations, Maintenance, the Technical Services engineering team, control equipment suppliers, and the capital project team.

Essential Functions :

• Support existing CVRF Honeywell DCS & PLC network to maintain safe and reliable operations until project completion and startup
• Provide troubleshooting, maintenance, and optimization of control systems, including DCS, SIS, and PLCs.
• Analyze and resolve operational problems related to control systems.
• Assist with alarm rationalization and address alarm bad actors.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams to ensure proper instrumentation, electrical systems, and network configurations are integrated into the controls infrastructure.
• Perform upgrades, configuration changes, and tuning of control systems, ensuring safety, reliability, and efficiency.
• Assist in maintaining technical documentation such as cause and effect tables, piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), and control system logic diagrams
• Participate in control system design, specification, testing, and commissioning for new projects and system upgrades
• Troubleshoot and resolve network and IT-related issues within the process control network (PCN)
• Ensure compliance with all safety and operational protocols, particularly with respect to safety instrumentation systems
• Ensuring process control documentation is up to date, and MOC's are approved and closed out timely
• Responsible for continuous improvement of the base layer control system performance through process control structured monitoring, addressing bad actors with respect to controller uptime, compliance, interventions, and demand rate.
• Work with site engineers and staff from other disciplines to evaluate requirements and develop new concepts that could add value to the commercial applications
• Transfer controls design knowledge to operations by providing the tools, training, information and other essential skills to the Plant Engineers
• Review, analyze, and approve controls data during commissioning to ensure that it meets the contracted performance metrics, support project commissioning and startup activities as needed
• Assess the health and day-to-day operations of the facility (i.e., checking control systems, alarms, errors, and malfunctions; improving performance, optimizing control schemes to ensure that associated commercial and safety requirements are met)
• Modify control system for schemes that will better support operations
• Provide suggestions, strategies, and recommendations for improved production rates, efficiencies, yields, and cost reduction initiatives
• Configure and optimize graphical user interfaces, including console environments, PLC HMIs, and Ignition graphics, to ensure intuitive operation, system visibility, and effective alarm management.
• Utilize industry best practices, techniques, and standards throughout entire project and operation
• Provide after-hours support when appropriate - emergency call out
• Perform related tasks as assigned

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Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Grapevine Energy Holdings provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.