Refinery Data Engineer

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Direct client


Refinery Data Engineer (Dallas)


Target State Date: ASAP


Position is Remote


M-F 40 Hours/wk


No Per Diem, No Expenses & No Travel


We are seeking a detail driven Data Engineer with experience in petroleum refining operations to support our instrumentation, asset tracking, and real-time data integration. This role focuses on extracting equipment and instrument details from refinery Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs), structuring asset relationships, and mapping them to PI tags to create hierarchies that can be used in other systems.


Responsibilities

• Scrape, interpret, and organize data from refinery P&IDs and equipment data sheets, including complex systems such as crude units, hydrotreaters, reformers, FCC units, hydrocrackers, cokers, sulfur plants, utilities, etc.
• Identify and catalog refinery equipment—pumps, compressors, exchangers, reactors, columns, furnaces, instrumentation, etc.
• Associate instrumentation with process equipment, ensuring accurate linkage of instruments to a corresponding asset variable for hierarchies.
• Map instruments to PI Asset Framework Attributes to enable mapping of flow, temperature, pressure, level, composition, and equipment health
• Add Mapped PI Tags to deployed PI Asset Framework and deploy/manage calculation deployment.
• Perform data validation and quality checks, ensuring equipment identifiers, tag numbers, and signal paths match refinery documentation and field data.
• Work closely with HF Sinclair team to resolve discrepancies and confirm correct data associations.
• Support standardization of naming conventions, tag structures, and documentation aligned with refinery engineering practices
• Provide information on status of completeness of work as a percentage.

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