Database administrator Jobs in Wichita, KS

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, Inductive Automation Ignition, Honeywell products, LIMS systems
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server
• Experience with high availability technologies (Big-IP F5, SQL Always On, PI HA, etc.)
• Experience with on-premises application deployments on Windows and their supporting network systems (firewalls, TCP fundamentals)
• Experience working in and supporting manufacturing environments/real-time systems
• Experience with automation of alerting and response and tools like Tanium, Grafana, or LogRhythm
• Experience managing IT/Software initiatives and projects (leading status meetings, gathering and working through requirements, focusing on agile and iterative deliverables)
• Experience with customers and 3rd party facing interactions (backlog management, customer engagement activities, representing long and short-term gaps in discussions with 3rd parties)

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.