Process Control Specialist Sr.
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Job overview
Westlake Chemical seeks a senior Process Control Specialist to provide engineering design, procure equipment, and coordinate construction projects. The role ensures projects meet scope, cost, and schedule while supporting maintenance and production with instrumentation and control system expertise in a chemical plant environment.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Full job description
Experience Required
8 - 20 years
Minimum Education Required
Associates Degree
Compensation
$7.25 / hourly
Hours Per Week
40
Number Of Positions
1
Work Schedule and Shift Requirements
First (Day)
Job Description
Westlake offers you the potential to enrich your work life and career experience in an entrepreneurial environment. We work together to enhance peoples' lives through our products and presence in the communities in which we operate.
Process Control Specialist Sr. provides engineering design, orders equipment and coordinates the construction of expense and capital projects as assigned. Ensures projects meet scope, cost and schedule requirements. Provides engineering support to the maintenance organization to allow the plant to meet its cost and production goals.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
Develops the general plan for a project, prepares a budget estimate and obtains approval for the plan.
Provides conceptual and detailed designs for instrumentation and control systems in accordance with good engineering and safety practices, government regulations, plant specifications, applicable codes and underwriter requirements.
Initiates procurement of materials and communicates with purchasing, vendors and stores to control expediting and receiving of material.
Inspects new equipment for quality and conformance to specification.
Prepares work descriptions and drafts of engineering contracts for outside contract work, contacts contractors as necessary to obtain quotations on work to be performed. Prepares bid comparison, selects contractor, prepare requisition and submits for approval.
Coordinates field installation, inspects and accepts work.
Investigates and studies major maintenance problems and proposes solutions, provides engineering consultation and technical guidance for instrumentation and control systems including safety instrumental systems (SISs), distributed control systems (DCSs) and programmable logic controllers (PLCs) as required by Maintenance and Production.
Coordinates the activities of consulting firms when necessary. Consults with other engineering personnel and vendors and reviews trade journals and other professional publications in order to stay informed on materials, equipment and design methods.
Maintains engineering records.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Associate's degree in engineering/electronics discipline or progressive engineering/technical experience acceptable to management.
At least 8 years of engineering design experience required.
Chemical or petrochemical plant experience, preferred.
Westlake is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristics protected by applicable legislation.
If you are an active Westlake employee (or an employee of any Westlake affiliates), please do not apply here.You will apply via the Jobs Hub application in Workday.
Westlake Management Services, Inc. is proud to offer equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants to join our company and to succeed as members of our team regardless of r ace, r eligion, color, national origin, ancestry, disability, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, s exual orientation, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Job Type
Full time
Benefits Offered
Not specified
Veteran Preference
No
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
R33432
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