Automation Specialist

Airswift is looking for an Automation Technician to work on a 1+ years contract with one of our clients near Midland, TX.

Primary Purpose: Responsible for performing preventive and corrective maintenance on automation equipment, including troubleshooting, installation, configuration, and testing of equipment/devices.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Maintain and repair a wide array of automation and electrical equipment associated with upstream onshore oil and gas producing operations.
• Provide on-site automation support for upstream onshore oil and gas producing operations.
• Serve as a technical resource for facility control systems and field instrumentation, including level, pressure, flow, vibration, and other instruments.
• Ensure maintenance activities comply with relevant industry and corporate Process Control standards.
• Follow PLC programming practices, standards, and MOC procedures.
• Identify problem areas with instrumentation and control systems to determine strategic improvement opportunities.
• Leverage CMMS, such as SAP, to facilitate maintenance operations processes.

Required Knowledge, Experience, Skills, and Competencies:

• 2-year Instrumentation or Automation technology degree with a GPA of 2.5 or higher (or equivalent technical working experience with a good track record of safety).
• 3+ years of Oil Field experience.
• Intermediate knowledge of well RTU designs, programming, and troubleshooting.
• Intermediate knowledge of analog and discrete instrumentation, and various serial and ethernet communications protocols.
• Intermediate knowledge of technical standards and guidelines (API, NEC, NFPA, IEEE, ISA, etc.).
• Basic knowledge of maintaining PLC programs in function block, ladder logic, and structured text.
• Basic knowledge of maintaining local HMI operator interfaces.
• Ability and willingness to work 12-hour shifts, including nights, weekends, holidays, and participate in an on-call rotation. Schedules may vary depending on location.
• Ability and willingness to travel to unassigned job areas on an as-needed basis.
• Ability and willingness to work under air (fit test) and work from aerial manlift platform.
• Works safely around instrumentation and electrical systems.
• Capable of working responsibly with limited supervision.
• Intermediate knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.) and Windows Operating Systems.

Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Automation with GPA of 3.0 or higher (or foreign equivalent).
• 5+ years of Oil Field experience.
• 1+ years of upstream oil and gas automation experience.
• Experience with Allen-Bradley & Rosemount.
• Able to read and understand Cause & Effects, P&IDs, wiring diagrams, control narratives, etc.
• Basic ability to troubleshoot control networks for well sites, well pads, tank battery, saltwater disposal, and compressor stations (ControlNet, Ethernet I/P, Network Switches, fiber optics, RF communications).
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively communicate with management, technical, and field personnel.
• Builds positive relationships based on trust and seeks collaboration across organizational boundaries to achieve goals.
• Listens actively and invites new ideas for exchanged opinions, then influences and acts to drive positive performance and achieve results.