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Exxon Mobil

Senior Instrument Engineer

Exxon Mobil, Beaumont, Texas, us, 77726

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Overview Location: Beaumont, TX, US • Company: ExxonMobil

About us: ExxonMobil is a global energy company focused on energy innovations and a net-zero future. We value a diverse workforce and work to advance living standards through solutions in energy, chemicals, lubricants, and lower-emissions technologies. We invite you to bring your ideas to ExxonMobil to help create sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs.

Beaumont, Texas, located on the Neches River, is part of the Gulf Coast region with a rich history in the oil industry. The Beaumont complex includes a refinery, chemical plant, polyethylene plant, and lubricant blending and packaging plant, contributing to the local economy and community. The site continues to grow as part of ExxonMobil’s building and expansion plans for the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Learn more about what we do in Beaumont here.

What role you will play in our team Provide instrument engineering expertise at the ExxonMobil Beaumont, TX site.

What you will do The work includes engineering design, configuration, programming, maintenance, trouble-shooting, failure analysis, and performance analysis in support of safe and reliable operations of instrumentation equipment within the Complex, including:

Field instrumentation for process measurement (e.g., pressure, temperature, level, and flow) as well as specialty measurements (density, vibration) and control valves, shutdown valves, and their transmission systems (e.g., 4-20mA, HART, ProfiBus)

Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS)

Machinery controls and protection systems

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) for monitoring and control of packaged systems

Instrumentation cabling, wiring, junction box, power supply and distribution, UPS, and associated TCP/IP, SCADA, Modbus networking (switches, routers, Ethernet, fiber optics, etc.) and transmission systems

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Sizing and specifying various types of instrumentation for new or existing instruments undergoing a change

Supporting the maintenance team and interfacing with vendors and contractors to maintain, troubleshoot, repair/replace, configure/tune/program, test/commission/de-commission, etc.

Supporting development of equipment strategies, understanding the impact of equipment sparing, redundancy, reliability, availability, maintainability, and maintenance cost in support of operations excellence and capital efficiency

Participating in activities related to safety, risk assessment and safety incident investigations related to instrumentation equipment

Primary contributions will be at the individual contributor level with close interfaces within the immediate work group and interfaces with other disciplines within engineering and maintenance.

About You Skills and Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or above in Electrical / Electronic Engineering or equivalent

Understand the principles of fundamental process measurements (e.g., pressure, temperature, level, and flow)

Able to size and specify various types of instrumentation (e.g., flow meters, control valves, shutdown valves) under the guidance of experienced resources

Understand Instrumentation Society of America (ISA) and American Petroleum Association (API) symbols and P&ID reading

Understand basics of piping for instruments, tubing and fittings, signal transmission media, communication hardware and software, and basic process and safety requirements for field devices

3+ years of experience in the petrochemical industry or design institute

Demonstrated understanding of overall Instrumentation and Control (I&C) requirements and design principles and knowledge of field measurement and control devices and their proper application

Knowledge of troubleshooting techniques, performance analysis and the ability to solve field problems with familiarity with measurement and control devices from major vendors

Sound knowledge and experience in equipment engineering specifications and standards, including industry standards

Knowledge of safety system hardware, software architecture, and transmission systems; familiarity with SIS software and hardware platforms from major vendors and the ability to maintain and support site implementation

Knowledge of safety in design principles, contributing to HAZOPs and Risk Assessments, SIL assignment and evaluation, and knowledge and proper use of Hazardous Area codes

Familiarity with DCS software and hardware platforms from major vendors (e.g., Honeywell, Yokogawa, Emerson) or equivalent

Skilled in equipment strategy development including risk assessment facilitation and evaluation of task cost effectiveness, and communicating equipment strategy results

Preferred Qualifications/ Experience

Familiarity with Smart Plant Instrumentation (SPI) software or equivalent

Skills to design, implement, troubleshoot and maintain data connections from DCS/SCADA systems to business, instrument, analyzer and other subsystem networks

Knowledge of Package Systems function, interface methods and specification development; skills to configure host networking parameters and devices for system interconnection

Knowledge of Industrial Control Systems Environment (ICSE) security design, implementation and management

Understanding of interfacing with all types of control and monitoring systems for machinery and fired equipment

An ExxonMobil career is designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits across health, security, finance, and life.

We offer you:

Pension Plan: automatic enrollment at no cost with a monthly retirement annuity

Savings Plan: contribute 6%-20%; company matches 7% if you contribute at least 6%

Workplace Flexibility: programs like “Flex your Day” and other leave/part-time options

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans

Culture of Health programs and resources

Employee Health Advisory Program: confidential counseling for you and your family

Disability Plan: automatic income replacement when you cannot work

Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.

ExxonMobil is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or physical or mental disability.

Exxon Mobil Corporation has numerous affiliates; wording about abbreviations is for convenience and does not indicate legal relationships.

Job ID: 79856

Nearest Major Market: Beaumont

Job Segment:

Sustainability, Instrumentation, Testing, Refinery, Engineer, Energy, Engineering, Technology

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