Job Description:
Title: Process Engineer
Location: Chickasaw, AL 36611
Duration: 06+ months (with possible extension).
Shift: Mon-Fri, 8-5 or 7-4
Pay Rate: $40/hr.
Job Summary
The PI Vision Migration Engineer will lead the conversion of legacy PI ProcessBook displays to PI Vision across multiple manufacturing sites. The contractor will work closely with operations, process engineering, and site leadership teams to migrate, validate, standardize, and optimize process visualization dashboards while ensuring continuity of business-critical monitoring and reporting capabilities.
The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge of OSIsoft/AVEVA PI System applications, industrial process data, and manufacturing operations, along with hands-on technical implementation and stakeholder collaboration experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Inventory and assess existing PI ProcessBook displays across manufacturing sites.
- Convert PI ProcessBook displays to PI Vision while maintaining functionality and usability.
- Validate migrated displays against existing ProcessBook pages to ensure accuracy of process data, calculations, trends, and visualizations.
- Collaborate with process engineers, operations personnel, and subject matter experts to understand display requirements and business needs.
- Standardize display formats, navigation, naming conventions, and visualization practices across sites.
- Identify opportunities to improve dashboard design, usability, and performance during migration.
- Develop and enhance PI Vision dashboards for operations management, performance monitoring, and KPI tracking.
- Troubleshoot issues related to PI Vision displays, data references, and user access.
- Support user acceptance testing and provide guidance to site personnel during deployment.
- Document migration activities, standards, and best practices.
- Track migration progress and communicate project status to stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with OSIsoft/AVEVA PI System technologies.
- Experience developing or supporting PI ProcessBook and PI Vision displays.
- Understanding of process data historians, trends, KPIs, and industrial data visualization.
- Experience with PI Asset Framework (AF).
- Experience developing advanced PI Vision dashboards.
- Knowledge of manufacturing performance systems such as OEE, downtime tracking, SPC, batch monitoring, or Tier management.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently with limited supervision.
- Strong communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working across multiple manufacturing sites and with cross-functional teams.
Key Deliverables
- Complete migration of existing PI ProcessBook displays to PI Vision for 3 manufacturing sites.
- Verification and validation of migrated displays.
- Documentation of migration standards and conversion decisions.
- Final migration status report identifying completed, pending, and future enhancement opportunities.
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