{"id":2015,"date":"2023-05-23T15:24:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T19:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mriomega.com\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2025-09-05T01:40:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:40:40","slug":"instrumentation-controls-engineer-128565-bsee-chemicals-refinery-paper-mills-powerplant-food-cement-water-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/controls-automation\/instrumentation-controls-engineer-128565-bsee-chemicals-refinery-paper-mills-powerplant-food-cement-water-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Instrumentation Controls Engineer (128565) BSEE \/ Chemicals, Refinery, Paper Mills, Powerplant, Food, Cement, Water Treatment \/"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Instrumentation, and Controls Engineer with 20+ years of experience supporting chemical, refinery, powerplant, paper mills, food plants, and cement operations<\/strong>. He is a BSEE and has a bachelor’s in computer information systems. He is practiced in multiple programming and industry software programs as well as hardware brands of PLCs, HMIs, meters, instrumentation, and control valves. He has done greenfield plant projects from specification to installation and commissioning. He is currently employed in a remote position but is interested in confidentially exploring new opportunities as he misses working onsite. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is based in the Atlanta area but could be coaxed to a location that is close to a beach along the Gulf Coast or Florida. <\/strong>His technical acumen, education, broad application and equipment skills, and multi-industry experience make him a highly versatile automation industry expert that is rare to find. Don’t snooze or you will lose the opportunity!<\/strong> His notable experience includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Applications have included chemical plants, pulp and paper mills, combined and simple cycle power plants (fossil), petroleum refineries, cement plants, as well as food and beverage plants.
\u2022 Lead discipline engineer for individual projects (instrumentation and controls).
\u2022 Instrumentation specification, loop sheets, P&ID’s, interconnect wiring, control panel design, MCC layouts, load calculations, circuit protection, motor starter circuit design, etc.
\u2022 Extensive checking of engineers’ and designers\u2019 work, both instrumentation and electrical.
\u2022 Coordination of efforts with other related disciplines such as piping, process and electrical.
\u2022 Database-oriented specification applications (SmartPlant Instrumentation, COMOS, Aveva).
\u2022 Thorough knowledge of NEC and NFPA codes.
\u2022 Field checkout, troubleshooting and startup.
\u2022 Control systems I\/O layout (DCS, PLC) and programming of Allen-Bradley PLC-5\u2019s.
\u2022 Very strong technical writing skills, which are both clear and concise.
\u2022 Vendor bid review\/evaluation.
\u2022 Estimating and scheduling of project execution, as well as scope of work.
\u2022 Excellent team working, organizational, interpersonal and communication skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Greenfield Chemical Plant
\u2022 Combined Cycle Power Plant
\u2022 Petroleum Refining
\u2022 Natural Gas and Biomass Fueled Power Boiler
\u2022 Manufacturing Automation
\u2022 Power Plants
\u2022 Natural Gas Fueled Combustion Turbine Generator
\u2022 Detailed Instrument Specifications For Control Valves including Sizing
\u2022 Flow And Pressure Instrumentation
\u2022 SmartPlant Instrumentation
\u2022 Control Valves
\u2022 Flow Meters
\u2022 Level Instrumentation
\u2022 Vendor Bid Submittal Review
\u2022 Water Treatment Plant
\u2022 Instrument Loop Sheets
\u2022 Junction Box Interconnects
\u2022 P&ID’s
\u2022 Interconnection and Logic Diagrams
\u2022 Instrumentation Specifications
\u2022 Loop Sheets
\u2022 Location Plans
\u2022 HMI graphics
\u2022 Allen-Bradley ControlLogix PLCs
\u2022 Conveyor Controls
\u2022 Designed Electrical Schematics and Control Elementarie
\u2022 480V, 4160V and 13.8kV
\u2022 Allocated Circuits for Power Panels
\u2022 Writing Instrument Specifications
\u2022 Combustion Control
\u2022 Burner Management I\/O.
\u2022 NFPA 85 and ASME Codes
\u2022 Instrument Loop and Control Panel Design
\u2022 Supervision Of Engineers
\u2022 Allen-Bradley PLC-5
\u2022 Control Panel Design
\u2022 PLC Programming
\u2022 Specified, Sized and Selected Instrumentation
\u2022 Power Distribution Systems
\u2022 Factory Acceptance Testing
\u2022 Triconex PLC-Based Emergency Shutdown Systems
\u2022 Allen-Bradley PLC-5\u2019s
\u2022 Modicon 584\/984 PLCs
\u2022 Upgrade Projects
\u2022 Fisher ProVox DCS
\u2022 COMOS
\u2022 Detailed Control Cabinet Design
\u2022 DCS I\/O
\u2022 Process Control
\u2022 Power Generation
\u2022 PanelView Operator Interface Graphics Configuration
\u2022 Motor Starter Sizing
\u2022 MCC Specification
\u2022 Construction Support
\u2022 Site Commissioning
\u2022 GE\/Fanuc Series Six Plus PLCs
\u2022 Configured HMI graphics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EDUCATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Bachelor of Science – Major: Computer Information Systems\/Computer Science (double major) \/ Charleston Southern University \u2014 Charleston, SC (Worked full-time as an instrumentation and electrical designer while also attending classes full-time.)
\u2022 BS Electrical Engineering – University of North Carolina at Charlotte \u2014 Charlotte, NC (Transferred studies to Charleston Southern University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SELECT CONTINUING TRAINING and SEMINARS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 GA Professional Engineer’s Exam Review Course (one week course) \u2013 Power Engineers
\u2022 Lead Engineer Workshop \u2013 Power Engineers
\u2022 Emerson Delta V DCS Configuration and Implementation \u2013 Emerson Process Management<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Instrumentation, and Controls Engineer with 20+ years of experience supporting chemical, refinery, powerplant, paper mills, food plants, and cement operations. He is a BSEE and has a bachelor’s in computer information systems. He is practiced in multiple programming and industry software programs as well as hardware brands of PLCs, HMIs, meters, instrumentation, and control valves….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[308],"tags":[28,52,53,55,61,175,212,319,488,538,573,676],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-controls-automation","tag-manufacturing","tag-bsee","tag-controls","tag-automation","tag-instrumentation","tag-chemicals","tag-powerplant","tag-refinery","tag-food","tag-paper-mill","tag-water","tag-cement"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}