Refinery Data Engineer

REMOTE 8+ month contract for a Refinery Data Engineer role with a leading oil/energy client. APPLY NOW!!!! Title: Refinery Data Engineer Location: 100% remote-flex with time zones Type: Contract Pay: $/hour on w2 Length: 8+ months- expected to end at end of year but possibility to extend Screenings: no tech, full panel drug and background once hired IV process: 1-2 round(s) +optional benefits, long term contract with ability to extend or convert to full time Required Qualifications • Direct experience working with refinery PIDs 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. • Experience in a technical role such as engineering within a refinery • ideally 1-2 years experience configuring PI Asset Framework 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 PIDs 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 PIDs 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 (client name removed) 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.