Refinery Data Engineer

City, State company is seeking a Refinery Data Engineer to join their team for a contract opportunity.

Rebuild Americas Infrastructure with our Fortune 200 Materials and Logistics Client.

Contract Duration: 9 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• Direct experience working with refinery P&IDs, equipment lists, and process flow documentation.
• Familiarity with PI Systems (PI tags, PI AF, hierarchies, templates) and live process data streams common in refining operations.
• Strong understanding of refinery process equipment and instrumentation, including transmitters, analyzers, control valves, switches, interlocks, and safety systems.
• Proficiency with Excel or other data processing tools commonly used for engineering data management.
• High attention to detail with the ability to navigate complex refinery documentation and identify inconsistencies.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience in a technical role such as engineering within a refinery
• 1-2 years experience configuring PI Asset Framework

What You Will Be Doing

• 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 the Client’s 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.

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family
• Dental & Orthodontia Benefits
• Vision Benefits
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options
• Paid Sick Time Leave
• Legal and Identity Protection Plans
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
• 529 College Saver Plan

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.