Cenovus Energy · 6 days ago
Staff Process Controls Engineer
Lima, OH
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
12+ years expCenovus Energy is seeking a new Staff Process Controls Engineer for the Lima Refinery, who will manage the Alarm Management Project and improve operator effectiveness. The role involves developing and maintaining APC applications, managing alarm configurations, and ensuring compliance with refinery guidelines.
Energy ManagementManufacturingNatural ResourcesOil and Gas
Responsibilities
Provide APC, modeling, and on-line optimization at the refinery. Provide direction for the refinery’s APC program, identifying optimization opportunities, creating best practices, and setting priorities. Work with other groups in the refinery as well as within the company to accomplish optimization goals. Responsibilities include development, ownership and maintenance of APC applications
Manage the Alarm Management Project utilizing PSI Alarm Management database software within the Hexagon PAS PlantState Integrity Platform Alarm Management Software. Carry out advanced alarm management (like dynamic and predictive alarming), and alarm suppression (manual shelving, design suppression, and out-of-service) and simple on/off delays to reducing nuisance alarms and improving operator effectiveness
Network with Cenovus central Downstream Technical Services teams, other Cenovus refinery and manufacturing sites and industry groups/networks to capture best practices. Network with Cenovus Downstream Process Controls teams to increase the utilization of DMC and other Advanced Process Control applications across the company
Provide new and maintain existing DCS control scheme designs, control configurations, alarm configurations and operator graphics that meet refinery guidelines and provide improved reliability/safety for ongoing plant operations
Participate in Design Review, P&ID’s Review, Engineering Milestone Review, MOC, Investigation, Hazard & Operability (HAZOP) Study, Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) processes
Provide Project Engineering support in accordance with sites standards and practices and provide ease of maintenance and increased reliability to the refinery
Develop control schemes in accordance with site standards that allow for ease of use for operations and maintainability and reliably for the Area Business Team Process Controls Engineers
Specify and procure DCS Hardware in accordance with site standard hardware
Manage and adhere to Engineering Practices (EP’s) in accordance with industry standards
Qualification
Required
Legally authorized to work in the US
Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or closely related discipline required
12+ years refinery or closely related experience required
Experience in multiple process units and a broad working knowledge of Honeywell control systems and AspenTech DMC and Inferrentials
Proficiency in codes and standards related to refinery process controls such as: ISA 18.2 (Management of Alarm Systems for the Process Industries), EEMUA Publication 191 (Alarm Systems. A guide to design, management, and procurement), ISA 101.01 (Human Machine Interfaces for Process Automation Systems), ISA 106.00.01 (Procedural Automation for Continuous Process Operations), IEC 63303 (Human machine interfaces for process automation systems)
Knowledge and proficiency in Honeywell HPM and Experion C-300/SCADA configuration
Experience with Experion HMI graphic design and configuration
Preferred
Familiarization with Alarm Management within the Hexagon PAS PlantState Integrity Platform Alarm Management Software considered an asset
Familiarization with PPCL C Visual Explorer (CVE) analysis considered an asset
Lin & Associates ALTIUS Graphics experience considered an asset
Benefits
Generous paid vacation
Annual bonus
Retirement savings plan matching
Long-term incentives
Medical & dental coverage
Life insurance
Disability benefits
Employee assistance program
Virtual healthcare coverage
Generous leave of absence programs
Fitness membership reimbursement
Company
Cenovus Energy
Cenovus Energy is an integrated energy company that develops, produces, transports and markets crude oil and natural gas.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
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$1.86BKey Investors
Saskatchewan Technology Fund
2025-11-18Post Ipo Debt· $1.86B
2025-10-31Grant
2022-10-13Post Ipo Equity· $0.2M
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EVP & Chief Operating Officer
Alexander Pourbaix
Board Chair
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