DCS Engineer - Pilot Plant

Role - DCS Engineer (Pilot Plant)

Purporpose

• Ensure safe, efficient, and reliable operation of the Distributed Control System (DCS).
• Configuring the recipe, monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing the DCS to support scale-up trials.
• Providing automation support, implementing control logic modifications, and maintaining system integrity.

Challenges of the role:

• Managing frequent changes in process recipes, control logic, and interlocks due to experimental batches.
• Supporting operators and shift In-charges with DCS troubleshooting under time constraints.
• Driving the regular process in absence of shift-in-charge.

Principal Accountabilities & Responsibilities

• Operate, monitor, and maintain the DCS to ensure smooth plant operation.
• Develop, modify, and test DCS control setpoints, strategies, interlocks, alarms, and graphics as and when required.
• Ensure robust data logging and trend availability for process analysis.
• Review the process trends and report to plant manager on any abnormalities observed.
• Ensure all process interlocks are implemented and simulated
• Coordinate with the Instrumentation and ABB for complex issues and upgrades
• Provide first-line troubleshooting and support for DCS-related issues during shifts.
• Zero incidents and adherence to safety protocols
• Start-up, shutdown, and emergency handling of process units.
• Acknowledge and analyse process alarms; take corrective actions promptly.
• Maintain plant operation within specified limits and comply with standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Record critical parameters like temperature, pressure, flow, level, and maintain logbooks.
• Prepare daily shift reports, production summaries, and handover notes.

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