SCADA Product Expert, Pipeline Operations

R10074978 SCADA Product Expert, Pipeline Operations (Open)

Location

Houston, TX (HO) - SIO - OCC

Air Liquide Large Industries provides our customers with industrial gas and energy solutions that are vital to their own industrial production. We own and operate over 2,000 miles of industrial gas pipelines in the U.S. supplying mainly oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and syngas in large quantities from multiple production sources to major customers in the chemicals, petrochemicals, refining and steel industries. Our pipeline operations and industrial gas production facilities are closely monitored 24/7 within our leading-edge operations control center located in Houston, Texas. Our operations control group monitors over 89,000 data points and assists with product supply and coordination. We are constantly optimizing our supply network to provide high reliability and energy efficiencies allowing Air Liquide to adjust supply needs more quickly and effectively enabling growth to our customers.

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

The SCADA Engineer’s mission is to manage the support of the GeoSCADA system. The GeoSCADA system is nearing the run phase and this role will be crucial to the final steps of deployment of the new system & replacement of the existing SCADA solution. This person is an expert within the Pipeline Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition application and works closely with the Operations Control Center business owners to assist in day-to-day development needs, along with 24 hour emergency support after the system has been deployed. This person serves as the functional point of contact for SCADA System and is the link to the various IT resources needed for successful implementation of business needs.

• Deploy resources to communicate with DCS, RTUs, and PLCs into GeoSCADA. 

• Support control room regulatory requirements for HMI screen development, alarm management, change management, and Point-to-Point, in compliance with PHMSA & CRM, as applicable.  

• Acts as the liaison between end users and IT technical teams (Security, Infrastructure, Applications, etc.)

• Works with the technical teams in the execution and design of application enhancements and digital projects related to, or interfacing with, GeoSCADA.

• Facilitate decision making and arbitration relating to trade-offs both within and between GeoSCADA and other applications (ex. Billing, OSI PI)

• Install new software releases, patches & program fixes for the pipeline SCADA system

• Assists the business users and interface with the other technical support teams in support  of application for critical issues.

• Ensures uptime of the application and is available to resolve issues as primary point-of-contact for the Operations Control Center outside of working hours. 

• Configuration & management of the GeoSCADA system tag, alarm, and script database.

• Configuration & management of the user accounts to manage access control & security of GeoSCADA.  

• Understand the interface requirements & manage the technical interface for external & internal business applications. 

• Evaluate and facilitate purchasing of new hardware used for pipeline device communication.

• Documents the functional designs for all enhancements and projects for the GeoSCADA system.

• Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate IT personnel as needed.

• Support training for new users of the GeoSCADA system.

• Assist the users (customers) in developing procedures, and updating documentation to maintain control room compliance for SCADA.

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Are you a MATCH?

Education, Training or Certification Requirements

• 5+ years experience with ClearSCADA/GeoSCADA product suite

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, or a related discipline required

• 10+  years experience in: Pipeline Operations, IT, or SCADA operations/applications

• Strong knowledge of Pipeline Operations, processes and SCADA applications

• Candidates must have valid employment authorization in the U.S. and must not require visa sponsorship now or in the future. This position is not open for non-immigrant visa sponsorship.

General Requirements and Knowledge

• Expert in ClearSCADA and/or GeoSCADA