Non-Union Position Information Technology; Portland, OR 97209 Regular; Full-Time Posting # 50260309 April 13, 2018 At NW Natural, we like to say, “We grew up here.” We’ve been an energy supplier and community leader since 1859. Some of our neighbors know us through our philanthropy and volunteer programs and innovative approaches to carbon reduction. Our customers know us because of the clean, safe, efficient, and low-cost natural gas we provide. We are a service-oriented utility, with a “Best in the West” customer satisfaction ranking. If you share our core values – integrity, safety, service ethic, caring and environmental stewardship – we invite you to apply to NW Natural. The Role: Leads, engineers, designs, tests and commissions field instrumentation, pipeline control systems, and telemetry in support of gas control operations. Works closely with pipeline engineering department, gas control, SCADA development team, and instrumentation technicians. Responsible for engineering, planning, organizing and implementing field SCADA instrumentation and telemetry and leads field commissioning of new and/or improved pipeline controls with cross department team members. Day to Day: - Develops engineering studies, plans, specifications, calculations, evaluations, design documents, and performance assessments associated with the planning, design, licensing, construction, operation, and maintenance of company SCADA systems used for the monitoring and control of gas control operations.
- Leads engineering design, testing and commissioning of field instrumentation and pipeline control systems.
- Perform engineering tasks using established procedures, these include but are not limited to, field transducer and equipment selection, schematic design, system layout, cost estimation, permitting and system documentation.
- Leads telemetry and SCADA project planning, scheduling and budgeting based upon project commissioning and start-up schedules.
- Insure accuracy and reliability of instrumentation, SCADA, pipeline control and safety of systems.
- Generate system architecture and piping and instrumentation design and field network drawings.
- Participates in architecture decisions affecting SCADA instrumentation and controls.
- System testing and troubleshooting of instrumentation and control systems to resolve scheduled and unscheduled outages.
- Work closely with company personnel to optimize instrumentation and pipeline control efficiency and reliability.
- Provide guidance and training assistance to field instrumentation technicians and SCADA HMI developers.
- Establishes standardized field documentation, responsible for instrumentation design as-builts and provides engineering support services to field technicians.
- Position requires frequent field site visits throughout the NW Natural operational region to lead on-site instrumentation engineering, design, and commissioning.
- Position requires the ability and willingness to be available for on-call response, and off-hours site commissioning or upgrade activities.
- Supports Company’s commitment to a culture of safe work practices.
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