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Project DCS Control System Specialist

Job Summary

The Marathon Carson California Refinery has an opening for an Project DCS Control System Specialist. This position will contribute to the Major Projects Group and refinery’s visions in the areas of safety, reliability, and profitability defined by the department in accordance with its business needs. They will support Major Project Group and maintain relationship with various departments such as Process Control Group, Maintenance and Operations.

This position will identify and address varying levels of technical obsolescence in the refinery's basic process control systems (BPCSs), third-party programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and associated third-party devices as well as the fiber communication cabling, patch panels, and switches required to support the new BPCS equipment. This position will also support the standardization and migration of the legacy refinery control systems(TDC 2000/3000), instrumentation, and controls for fired and rotating equipment by moving toward a common and more modern Basic Process Control Systems (BPCS) and safety instrumented systems (SIS).

The schedule for the position is 9/80, after hours calls can occur several times a month and this position supports construction and TAR 1-2 times a year on average.

Key Responsibilities

• Define scope for migrating obsolescence legacy BPCS systems by providing guidance to project with the infrastructure needs (consoles, servers, switches, fiber and routing, etc.).

• Determine the necessary hardware and infrastructure needed such as controllers (C300, UPC, etc. to support project I/O needs.

• Support Operation's Reps to ensure and provide alignment and consistency with the operational requirements as it relates to the decision-making process to achieve the Lines of Progression requirements.

• Assist with the scheduling of operator Experion training on the new systems.

• Assist with proving assimilation station and equipment to support the Operator training.

• Help develop the Functional Design Spec (FDS) as necessary.

• Review, comment and approve BlueBeam documents developed by the project team as necessary.

• Participate in various project meetings such as P&ID reviews, risk registers, VIP workshops, BlueBeam reviews, etc.)

• Participate in HFATs, CFATs and SATs and job-walks as required.

• Participate in Alarm Rationalization reviews as required.

• Support engineering and Integration contractors by providing necessary information as necessary. This includes gathering and capturing of the existing databases including legacy platform to help develop scope and reverse engineering process.

• Develop or provide standards, guidelines, and specs to guide projects on controls, database, HMI displays and hardware installation as needed.

• Support the project by helping define and design the new system. This includes CM control strategies and modifying the existing databases as needed. This also includes configuring Experion History assignments, Display groups, HMI Displays, STB files, STN files, Safeview, Menu Navigation, etc.

• Define the requirements to support the project needs and design with the necessary LCN network configuration file changes (NCF). Help and support executing the NCF changes.

• Define the requirement and perform the necessary modifications to the legacy database such as Network infrastructure (i.e., UCN/HWY) and as these systems are migrated to the new systems.

• Develop the Console Cutover Strategy Plan (swim lanes, step-by-step procedures, etc.) and the potential necessary changes to the existing LCN Consoles during the cutover.

• Support and perform Experion EMDB modifications as necessary. This includes modifying, deleting or adding new assets, alarm groups, etc.

• Perform Experion System Configuration modifications as necessary. This includes making changes when adding, deleting, or modifying hardware on the network. This may also include the following: OPCI, System Wide Settings, Alarm Configuration and Appearance, Hardware and Operator Security (asset rights – scope of responsibility).

• Support the install and migrations of the legacy LCN software releases (NCF Release upgrades) and Experion Releases (OPM) as they are required by the project.

• Update the legacy documentation of control systems, drawings, administration policies and procedure