Systems and Controls Engineer

Systems and Controls Engineer

Requirements

• Due to the nature of work performed at this site, incumbents must be a U.S. Person.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree
• Ability to work a professional work schedule in an office environment with non-regular hours, as required.
• Technical documentation skills.
• Ability to generate practical conceptual designs for complex systems.
• Ability to travel both domestically and internationally (less than 10%).
• PLC and DCS programming and design experience with a wide mix of control system and SCADA equipment.
• Experience interfacing with field devices including thermocouples, RTD’s, current loops, voltage and discrete IO.
• Equipment layout or panel design experience for end user facilities.
• Experience with analog and digital electronic circuits.
• Experience with networks including VLAN planning, network switch configuration and basic routing.
• Good troubleshooting skills. Able to troubleshoot problems with data acquisition system, server and workstations, network, AC and DC wiring.
• Experience with CAD software such as Microsoft Visio, AutoCAD, MicroStation etc.
• Experience with Microsoft Windows Server.
• Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio C/C++/C#.
• Knowledge of Windows operating systems with experience in system management and real-time application development.
• Familiarity with performing formal testing/integration, including software unit testing and integration of software with hardware as well as creating and executing system test procedures.

Responsibilities

• Develop, review, test, troubleshoot and refine system hardware and software requirements with internal and external customers under some supervision
• Perform requirements capture and specification; feasibility, concept proving and prototyping, and design, develop, test, debug, configure, maintain and document systems with minimal supervision
• Find, evaluate and select equipment suppliers and write purchase requisitions
• Coordinate with customers and team members to ensure that the system design meets requirements
• Create and/or review design documentation for systems under some supervision
• Create and/or review formal test documentation for systems including SCADA computers, PLCs, system health and redundancy, and system data acquisition under some supervision
• Integrate 3rd party hardware and software and company developed software into respective systems under some supervision
• Support deployed systems by analyzing and fixing system related issues under some supervision
• Follow established guidelines and procedures to ensure technical standards are met according to company standards
• Learn and apply new concepts to develop and demonstrate technical competence
• Work well independently and as part of a team to achieve team and organization goals
• Demonstrate a strong customer focus by listening to, recognizing, and responding to customer input in an effective, timely and courteous manner
• Take initiative as problems and opportunities arise by anticipating and meeting customer needs and company expectations
• Participate in process improvement

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.