Senior Automation Engineer

Senior Automation Engineer

About the Unit

Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Electrical and Automation Engineering Lead, the Automation Engineer is responsible for configuring, updating, maintaining, administrating and the security of the following systems: distributed control system, supervisory control and data acquisition system, safety shutdown system, human machine interfaces, assorted programmable logic controllers, and the Ethernet process control network infrastructure. This includes all ancillary systems (such as data historian, domain controllers).
• Ensure the control systems are operating with full availability. Leverage planned/unplanned maintenance windows. Ensure systems are meeting needs of operators
• Provide technical guidance for Control/Automation Group Technologists/Technicians
• Design/implementation of capital and alteration work involving the Yara control systems in accordance with management of change procedures, including updating documentation.
• Maintain and troubleshoot the control and safety system hardware and software. Install bypasses on systems, in coordination with operations, in abnormal operating conditions.
• Provide technical support and information regarding the control system to other departments. Analyse process data and event histories to provide sequence of events and trip “first-out” information to determine root causes of abnormal operating conditions, equipment failure, and to propose changes to prevent these incidents from recurring.