PI Administrator

Your Job

Flint Hills Resources (FHR) is looking for a PI Administrator to join our IT/OT capability at our Wichita, KS headquarters.

FHR's IT/OT capability is a key driver in our vision to integrate our manufacturing capability with next generation technologies both at the edge and in our cloud environments.

This role will have the opportunity to build close relationships with a focused group of key plant teams, understand plant operational and work processes in depth, understand plant business objectives, and participate in the engineering of technology solutions to address those objectives.

In support of these efforts, you will work with the extended IT/OT teams responsible for management of IT infrastructure and Cyber Security to inform development of architectural standards, monitoring capabilities, and security standards.

Our Team

As an PI Administrator you will create value for FHR by running and maintaining a collection of AVEVA PI software.

This includes, but is not limited to PI Data Archive collectives, PI Asset Framework Servers, PI AF Analysis Services, as well as the number of data integrations both in and out of PI.

In addition to running these PI systems, things like point creation, compression tuning, analysis performance enhancements are other common tasks.

You will work closely with sister IT/OT teams for monitoring and supporting infrastructure, but more commonly work directly with plant operations, project work, and others to maintain a quality PI system.

What You Will Do


* Day-to-day PI Administrator responsibilities across several PI environments - i.e.

point creation, compression tuning, analysis equations, performance equations, PI Vision display edits, etc.


* Incident Response - leveraging monitoring solutions and creating automation where appropriate and participate in after hours on call rotation, responding to unplanned events


* Technical/Functional Product Ownership - act as the Product Owner for the PI system, maintain roadmap, lifecycle upgrades, vendor support, etc.


* Partnering with plant operations and transformation teams in execution of projects.

These may involve new or existing technology, require working with plant teams to understand functional requirements of the system, and evaluation of alternative solutions.


* Assist with technical design, architecture, and execution of solutions, leveraging best knowledge across multiple IT disciplines.


* Travel to our plants to collaborate with our customers on solutions integrations into work processes.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* 3+ years of PI System (or data historian equivalent) administrator experience


* Experience with design and architecture of PI applications or similar operational platforms


* Ability to travel often (up to 25%)


* This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship

What Will Put You Ahead


* Experience with AVEVA PI System, Aspen IP21


* Experience with Emerson DeltaV, Ind...