Lead Chemical Engineer

Disability Solutions - Tulsa, OK

Full-time

Tulsa, OK

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

At Honeywell, we are committed to solving the world's most pressing challenges through innovation and technology. As a member of our global team, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of the refining, gas processing, and petrochemical industries. UOP, a Honeywell company, is a leading international licensor of processing technology and a supplier of engineering services, catalysts, adsorbents, equipment, specialty materials, and digital solutions. With over a century of leadership in hydrocarbon processing technologies, UOP has been at the forefront of six technological revolutions that have transformed our industry. In this role, you will be responsible for managing project work to meet budgeted hours, planned schedules, and quality standards. You will communicate regularly with the project manager regarding any necessary changes to budget, schedule, or quality levels, and keep them informed of progress on assigned projects. Your responsibilities will include interfacing with customers to determine their instrumentation and control system requirements, producing a complete definition of instrument requirements that incorporate applicable codes and customer specifications, and preparing detailed designs for instruments and controls. This includes creating instrument specifications, control system schematics, loop diagrams, logic diagrams, and control system narratives. You will also evaluate supplier bids for the instrument portion and participate in the supplier selection process, ensuring that the control system design conforms to customer requirements and applicable codes. Throughout the project, you will coordinate with fabricators on instrument and control system issues, inspect control system equipment and fabrication for compliance with project requirements, and analyze technical problems related to control system functionality. Your ability to program and troubleshoot Programmable Logic Controllers will be essential in this role. You will be expected to communicate key decisions made on projects to relevant stakeholders, ensuring that everyone is aligned and informed.

Responsibilities

• Meeting budgeted hours, planned schedule, and agreed-upon level of quality on assigned project work.
• Communicating with the project manager on required changes to budget, schedule, or quality level on assigned project work.
• Keeping up-to-date with current technology developments in the instrument-and-systems control area.
• Interfacing with customers to determine project instrumentation and control system requirements.
• Producing a complete definition of instrument requirements incorporating applicable code and customer requirements.
• Modifying and reviewing P&IDs.
• Preparing instrument/controls detail design including instrument specifications and requisitions, control system schematics, loop diagrams, logic diagrams, and control system narratives.
• Evaluating the instrument portion of supplier bids and participating in the supplier selection process.
• Reviewing the control system design for conformance with customer requirements and applicable codes, and identifying inconsistencies.
• Coordinating with the fabricator throughout the fabrication phase of the project on instrument-and-control system issues.
• Inspecting control system equipment and fabrication for conformance with project requirements and applicable codes.
• Inspecting control system site construction for conformance with project requirements and applicable codes.
• Analyzing and recommending solutions to technical problems in the control system functionality.
• Communicating key decisions made on projects to others.
• Ability to program and troubleshoot Programmable Logic Controllers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in a technical discipline such as the sciences, technology, engineering or mathematics.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in process/project, operations, or plant instrumentation and controls.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
• Experience with process instrumentation design and application.
• Oil/refinery or petrochemical industry experience is preferred, but will consider power/energy, food, or other chemical processing experience.
• Knowledgeable of UL/NFPA/IEC/NEC/API/PIP/ISA standards.
• Plant commissioning experience.
• An understanding of engineering principles and mathematics.
• Project management skills.
• Oral and written communication skills.
• Analytical and problem-solving ability.
• The ability to work as part of a team.