Job Description
This role emphasizes PLC, HMI, SCADA, and system integration - core to the position.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain systems of electrical and automated controls for machines, processes, sub-stations and railroad control center.
- Program, upload and download PLC, HMI and SCADA codes for backup and achieving.
- Select hardware and formulates engineering design based on project requirements
- Reviews system design for compliance with engineering best practices, appropriate regulations and codes, company standards, contract requirements and related specifications
- Formulates and performs factory acceptance test plans for completed systems
- Performs site acceptance tests at client job sites
- Provides PLC and HMI programming field support and troubleshooting
- Assist Lead Systems Engineer with, controls, SCADA design, FAT scheduling, requirements writing, testing and design review for projects.
- Assist Lead Systems Engineer in cost estimation, scope of work, procurement and project execution.
- Provides project management assistance for control systems and SCADA.
- Directs and coordinates operation, maintenance, and repair of equipment and systems on field installations.
- Use Microsoft Office products to perform engineering and project management tasks
- Set up and install Communications Fujitsu Servers, Switches, Protocol Converters, Firewalls and Modems.
- Perform assessments and gather data at existing substations, regarding the existing communication equipment life cycle.
- Develop design/requirements of communications systems for substations including fiber optics, telecom racks, ethernet switches, alarms, HMI and SCADA systems, cabinet elevations, communications block diagrams, and communications towers and raceways.
- Experience with industrial communications protocol, such as Modbus RTU, Modbus TCP, DNP3.0, Ethernet/IP, serial comms (RS-485, RS-232 and CAN) and ARINC.
- Implements sound cyber security architecture and configurations on substation devices. Applies North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) compliance requirements.
- Create SCADA point lists and remote terminal unit (RTU) programs, to be reported through human-machine interfaces (HMI’s) and Control Center.
- Prepare Substation Automation System (SAS) panel interconnections and outdoor equipment wiring and communications cabling and raceways.
- Prepare cable schedule.
- Develop bill of materials and nameplate schedule.
- Review internal communications designs and external design drawings
- Qualifications:
- Minimum 5 years related experience in design, development, programming, and field commissioning experience.
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret technical documents including P&IDs, sequence of operations, technical specifications, etc.
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
- Effectively present information to top management, and employees
- Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations.
- MUST be able to read PLC Ladder Logic, Tags and Scripts
- MUST be able to set up database historian
Achieve the requirements & responsibilities by:
- Initiating new, creative ideas.
- Having a willingness to be flexible - adapting to new paths
- Strong problem solving / troubleshooting practices.
- Able to manage multiple projects.
- Being a team player and working cross-functionally.
- Managing resources and relationships - internally and externally.
- Consistently evaluating processes, automate, recommending changes when appropriate.
- Supporting all business operations, value in - value out.
- Adapting, realizing workflow can, will change as our business grows.
- Communicating throughout organization.
- Be visionary and able to share that vision with the team members planning for alternatives.
Job Tags
Contract work, Work at office, Remote work, Flexible hours,