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Redondo Beach, Ca, Us

San Ramon, Ca, Us

San Ramon, Ca, Us

San Ramon, Ca, Us

•Lead a team of 11 Instrumentation and Controls Engineers to provide routine maintenance, reliability, projects, and capital projects support across the refinery.•Supported expense and small capital project scoping for the refinery. Typically projects ranged from $100M - $2MM with multi-disciplinary support.•Managed and provided instrumentation and controls engineering support for major and minor turnarounds across the refinery.• Managed I&C engineering contractors that provided routine maintenance, control maintenance, and capital project support.• Utilized Lean Sigma to reduce cycle time for engineering work order completion and control valve engineering.

San Ramon, Ca, Us

Provide refinery plant support for instrumentation and controls maintenance, small, and large capital projects.•Instrumentation Engineer Representative for refinery capital project ranging from $10MM-$60MM.•Pneumatic to DCS control upgrades. Working knowledge of TDC3000 and Experion control systems.•Design and engineering of custom control panels for PLCs, electronic over speed units, and metering systems.•Implementing control valve standardization for Engineering.•Bently Nevada Upgrades for critical rotating equipment•Modbus network modernization.•Fiber communication design and engineering or PLC to DCS communication.•Custody transfer metering and check metering. •Overspeed trip system design for high speed rotating equipment.• API compressor shutdown standardization. Implement industry wide practice to properly shutdown compressor across the refinery.•Marine Terminal Automation and Controls Upgrade.•PLC modernization projects. Replacement of obsolete PLCs with new Allen Bradley CLX.•Auxiliary system design and engineering for compressor and major machinery.•Instrument engineer turnaround support for Marine Terminal ,FCC, SRU, and Isomerization units.•Created or modified P&IDs for greenfield and brown field installations.•Created or modified standard installation details for process instrumentation•Utilized SmartPlant Instrumentation.

North Sydney, Nsw, Au

West Cost Operations TrainingDesigned, developed, and managed training for I&C department for West Coast Operations.• Planned, managed and presented a three part training session for SmartPlant Instrumentation for West Coast Operations.• Presented an information session on corporate policies for project man-hour estimates.

North Sydney, Nsw, Au

The purpose of the project is to modify the Samref refinery to comply with government product quality specification for the production of gasoline with 10 ppm sulfur and diesel with 50 ppm sulfur.• SmartPlant Instrumentation Lead responsible for implementation and managing SmartPlant Instrumentation (SPI).• Managed seventy engineers and designers populating and producing deliverables from SmartPlant Instrumentation.• Managed, scheduled, and progressed engineering and design tasks executed at the WorleyParsons Beijing Office.• Engineered and designed an equipment health monitoring system comprised of the following:o Bently Nevada System 1o TrendMaster Pro Systemo Bently Nevada 3500 Asset Condition Monitoring Systemo Triconex SISo Invensys Foxboro I/A DCSo Emerson Asset Management SystemSaudi Aramco, Ras Tanura Refinery Expansion Project Designed, developed, managed, and maintained instrumentation used to monitor and control the oil refining process in a Saudi Arabian heavy crude revamp project.• Set-up and provided maintenance for the SmartPlant Instrumentation database and populated instrument index via SPI. • Revised P&IDs for the Naptha Hydrotreater, Diesel Hydrotreater, Continuous Catalyst Regeneration, and Sulfur Recovery Unit. • Assisted in the design and implementation of control details for pumps, fin-fans, shutdown valves, and motor operated valves. • Developed specifications for pressure relief valves, flow measurement instruments, and control valves.