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At Air Products, our purpose is to bring people together to reimagine whats possible, collaborate and innovate solutions to the worlds most significant energy and environmental sustainability challenges. Grow with us as we embark on building tomorrow together by being the safest, most diverse, and most profitable industrial gas company in the world.


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Roles and Responsibilities:


We are seeking a Senior Principal Process Control and Instrumentation Engineer within our Global Engineering team located at our Houston, TX office. This position requires 30% domestic / global travel.

As Senior Principal Process Control and Instrumentation Engineer, you will lead an effort as a unit lead or an individual contributor for an Industrial Gas project. Your responsibilities include:
Delivers instrument specifications, participates in safety work process supporting LOPA, Design, and SIS validations, configuration of DCS, FAT, SAT for hardware and software, and commission support at AP facilities.
Develop Functional Execution Strategies, Project Execution Strategies, and estimates.
Meets project requirements managing schedule and budget in a multicenter execution team.
Serves as a consultant in one or two specific areas of technical expertise.


Required Skills / Abilities:

Develop process controls execution strategies in conjunction with overall project development team (both locally and with remote engineering centers)
Participation in P&ID development and Operability and Hazard Reviews
Author, check or approve specifications of process control equipment including control valves, relief valves, flow measurement devices, process instrumentation, analytical systems, and DCS, PLC, and SCADA systems
Identify and manage process controls technical risk items
Manage your functional project teams schedule, budget, and quality. This team may be a local in-house design team, geographically remote engineering and design center, or an outside engineering EPC.
Review SIL assessments and author SIL verifications
Participate in Control System Design reviews
Responsible for Cyber Security aspects of their scope of supply.
Participate in Factory Acceptance Testing of Process Automation equipment (DCS, Analyzers, PDC)
Production and maintenance of instrument summaries
Participate in plant commissioning, BPCS / SIS validations, SAT, and startups.
Manage deliverables and report to project management about progress.
May participate in preparing cost estimates for valves, instrumentation, analytical equipment, DCS equipment, SIS equipment and labor

Education and Licensing Requirements:


A bachelors degree in Chemical, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering with at least 15 years of applicable work experience
Able to demonstrate a deep understanding of the design and implementation of control and instrumentation systems for process plants
Experience developing BPCS / SIS architectures, control applications, and hardware specifications using Siemens PCS7.
Additional experience with other controls platforms is a plus
Must be able to demonstrate technical competence, leadership skills, communicate effectively
Instrumentation specification authoring in Smart-Plant Instrumentation toolset
Must be able to lead and direct the work of junior engineers assigned to projects
Must be a strong team player with a willingness to accept responsibility
Have good problem-solving abilities, be ambitious, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills enabling you to work well within a multi-disciplinary design team located in multiple geographies and to liaise directly with suppliers and clients
Travel is required, both domestic and international
Travel will include trips to plant sites, equipment fabricators, outside engineering firms, and customer locations (estimated at 30%)
Relevant practical site commissioning experience while not essential would be of benefit.
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At Air Products, we work in an environment where we put safety first, diversity is essential, inclusion is our culture, and each person knows they belong and matter. To learn more, visitAbout Air Products.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including paid holidays and vacation, affordable medical, dental, life insurance, retirement plans/401(k), and sick time. You will be eligible for benefits and also be 100% vested in your retirement benefits on your first day of employment.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer (U.S.). You will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, citizenship, gender, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, or veteran status.

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