Senior Controls Engineer

About the job Senior Controls Engineer

Position: Senior Controls Engineer

Trisian-Global Consulting LLC is seeking a highly skilled Senior Controls Engineer to work on-site in Addison, TX. As a Senior Controls Engineer, you will be responsible for providing team leadership in delivering automation systems for a wide variety of industries. This position requires demonstrated technical proficiency in implementing automation solutions with PLC, DCS, HMI, and SCADA platforms, is responsible for interacting directly with the customer and leading a team of Engineers in identifying requirements, developing specifications, and implementing/testing/commissioning/qualifying automation solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver innovative automation solutions and design standards either self-directedly or as a leader of a team.
• Conceptualize, detail, and implement control systems for industrial processes and machinery that meet customers requirements. This involves the development of a control system architecture, selecting the components to be used, detailing schematic diagrams and system documentation, programming controllers (PLC, DCS, RTU), programming the process visualization (HMI/SCADA), developing databases for archiving/displaying historical system data and implementing/commissioning the control system at client facility.
• Knowledge of controller programming languages such as Ladder, Sequential Function Chart, Structured Text, and others to achieve the desired results is required. Also having knowledge of standard programming languages such as VBA, .NET, and SQL for the development of HMI/SCADA systems is preferred.
• For larger systems, experience with industrial networking used to connect control system components and instrumentation is preferred.
• Design, detail, and implement a variety of fiber, wired, and wireless systems using industrial protocols (Ethernet/IP, Profinet, Modbus, etc.)
• Project Management Responsibilities: developing project execution plans, work breakdown structures and associated budgets, task prioritization and scheduling, task ordering, time tracking and reporting, financial tracking and reporting, early problem identification, conflict management/resolution, leading and supporting a team, and attending project status meetings. Overseeing daily operations and activities of a project(s) up to $10M and responsible for ensuring the overall profitability of the project.
• Ability to work independently.
• Act as technical lead on projects and guide lower-level engineers and technicians.

Qualifications:

• Education Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical/Control Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or Computer Science is required.
• Experience 10+ years of Controls Engineer experience
• Rockwell and Cimplicity experience preferred
• Various 3rd party web-based data integrations for monitoring and troubleshooting aid
• Develop work processes to automate template and instance development within the System Platform
• Provide technical leadership on design standards around graphics, alarming, and scale-up
  SQL, .NET, Power BI, Grafana, and APIs
• In-depth understanding of PLC hardware/software platforms such as Rockwell Automation, Siemens, and Modicon
• In-depth understanding of HMI/SCADA hardware/software platforms such as Servers, VMs, Networks, Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk and Plant Pax, Aveva System Platform and Edge, Inductive Automation Ignition, GE iFIX, Siemens Winn CC and TI Portal.
• In-depth understanding of DCS hardware/software platforms such as Emerson DeltaV or similar
• Experience in industries such as Semiconductor, Facilities, Life Sciences, Building Automation, Food and Beverage, Oil & Gas and Mining, Water Treatment etc.
• Experience in the design of electrical schematics, including power distribution under 480VAC, control panels, and associated NEC references desired
• Experience with AutoCAD is desired
• Experience leading a team of engineers/technicians to provide control system solutions
• Experience mentoring less experienced engineers
• Field device/equipment troubleshooting
• Job estimating

If you are a highly motivated and skilled Senior Controls Engineer with leadership skills, we encourage you to apply for this position.