Process Control Specialist, Los Angeles Refinery

2 weeks ago


Wilmington, United States Phillips 66 Full time

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The Process Controls Specialist maintains the process control asset base at Phillips 66 Los Angeles Refinery under the direction of the Instrument and Controls Engineering Superintendent.

The process control asset base includes Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), Distributed Control Systems (DCS), and the Process Controls Network (PCN) hardware, logic and controls. The Process Controls Specialist is an advocate for best practices in the development, selection, implementation, maintenance and effectiveness of the process control asset base to ensure that company guidelines, policies, procedures, regulatory, production, and optimization objectives are met at LAR.

This position is eligible for the Phillips 66 9/80 Policy work schedule.

**Responsibilities May Include**:
Provides technical support to Maintenance, Operations and Technical Services departments to troubleshoot, analyze, and provide direction to safely resolve issues with the process control asset base, improve the quality of maintenance repairs, daily equipment operation, engineered modifications, and new equipment installations

Ensures the reliability of process operations, graphics and controls through daily monitoring of control systems performance. This includes developing and implementing tools such as trends, histories, reports and displays to provide accurate and timely information to operations on process unit performance

Supports turnarounds and develops process control asset base work scope for assigned production areas. Maintains an ongoing priority work list developed with engineers, maintenance supervisors, instrument technicians, and operations

Supports process control systems hardware and software maintenance/upgrades, including on/off process migrations

Provides support for the MOC process to incorporate changes to the process controls asset base including control configuration/ programming, logic design/testing, graphics development, and documentation

Leads or participates in root cause analysis of process controls asset base equipment failures

Provides support to maintenance and capital projects, including development of hardware and logic design, testing, graphics, commissioning, start-up and documentation

Develops, recommends and manages the process controls asset base spare parts inventory for supported equipment/systems to reduce downtime and improve system reliability

Supports the training of operators, craftsman and plant engineers on the functionality of the process controls asset base

Participates in monthly Process Control and Human Centered Technology Network meetings

Supports Alarm Management for assigned production areas to maintain monthly alarm metrics and address standing alarm issues as well as reduction of bad actors

Communicates effectively with the Maintenance, Operations, and Technical Services departments, along with a wide range of personnel from various departments and divisions. This position regularly interfaces and interacts with craftsperson, vendors, contractors, and plant supervisors on process instrumentation and control issues

Responds to, independently evaluates, plans, and directs unexpected repair efforts during emergencies and after-hours call-outs

**Required Qualifications**:
Legally authorized to work in the United States on a regular full-time basis without restrictions

5 or more years of work experience related to instrumentation and automation control systems

Valid driver’s license

High school diploma or GED equivalent

Willing and able to respond to off-hours support requests, including weekends and/or holidays for turnarounds and/or operational upsets and participates in a weekly call out rotation

Experience with Honeywell DCS platforms (Experion PKS and / or TPS)

**Preferred Qualifications**:
At least ten (10) years of equivalent combination of education and/or experience with emphasis on instrumentation and automation control systems in the refining industry

Experience with implementation and/or troubleshooting of the following systems: Allen Bradley, Triconex, Foxboro IA, Siemens TDC 3000, GE BentlyNevada, and/or Ovation

Experience with DCS and /or PLC software and / or hardware upgrades

The Los Angeles Refinery consists of two linked facilities located five miles apart in Carson and Wilmington, California. The Carson facility processes crude oil, and the Wilmington facility upgrades the intermediate products to finished products. The facilities include crude distillation, naphtha reforming, fluid catalytic cracking, alkylation, hydrocracking and delayed coking units. The refinery processes mainly heavy, high-sulfur crude oil. It receives domestic crude oil by pipeline from California, Canadian crude via rail, and both foreign and domestic crude oil by tanker through a third-party terminal in the Port of Long Beach. The refinery produces a high percentage of transportation fuels. The refinery produces CARB-



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