DCS Engineer(digital controls)
In this role, you will function as a technical bridge between our Digital Product Owners and our Regional Engineering team focused on solving our client’s business problems in the areas of Performance, Reliability and Availability. On a day-to-day basis, process control engineers spend 75% of their time in the back office on project related activities while the other 25% will be spent onsite testing and/or directing our client’s operational team (process control engineers work 9-to-5 on a full-time basis).
Working Conditions:
· Normal power plant environment and/or out-of-doors work environment.
· Work around large rotating equipment, energized electrical equipment in high noise areas, climb stairways, ladders.
· Must be prepared to work extended hours; varied/rotating shifts with weekend and holiday work as required by schedules, workload, and project conditions.
· Ability to work in mentally stressful environments: must be able to react to crises where immediate action is required to correct or curtail potentially damaging or hazardous situations.
· Projects tasks will include but not limited to:
· Researching and developing new innovative solutions
· Managing project cost and time constraints
· Software Engineering for our traditional DCS modernization business
· Bottom end cycle tuning and optimization
· Process control health assessments
· Collecting data, authoring reports, and presenting findings to senior management & our clients
Requirements
How You’ll Make an Impact (responsibilities)
· Work with a niche project team to design and implement controls solutions using the SPPA-T3000 within a Power Plant Environment.
· Effectively demonstrate the ability to deliver on complex situations or problems without guidance or supervision.
· Being able to contribute to our business’s digital transformation through innovative technology tools and data analytics.
· Adapt and integrate products to create digital services and achieve customer outcomes.
· Aid in designing site-specific control logic from customer specifications, SAMA diagrams, logic diagrams, and reverse-engineering of ladder-logic, or existing code.
· Aid in designing, developing, and testing engineering modifications of solutions.
· Perform and track changes for complex new software designs, processes, or design changes to meet specified requirements.
· Aid in performing on-site studies to determine cost benefits of startup optimization, heat rate optimization, startup sequencing, alarm, and manual operator intervention reduction at power generation facilities.
· Aid in perform efficiency calculations for Plant Heat Rate, Boiler Efficiency, combustion turbine efficiency.
· Experience with advanced analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and/or machine learning in operational technologies
· Perform plant integration and aid with loop checks of new and existing instruments and commissioning of engineered control logic.
· Work with Supervisors, Maintenance, Engineering and Operations to plan, procure and document maintenance activities.
· Maintaining strict adherence to site specific safety rules and regulations
· Knowledge in field of industrial communication protocols for third party interfaces (Modbus, IEC60870, IEC61850, OPC UA) will be an advantage.
· Proven experience with DCS system and HMI/SCADA system.
· Continuously develop own knowledge and skills and help others to grow and develop
Travel Requirement:
· 20-35 % travel required.
What You Bring (requirements)
· Bachelor of Science from an accredited university
· Minimum of 8 years in process control (preferable combined cycle power plants)
· Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization.
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