Position: Senior Controls Engineer
Trisian-Global Consulting LLC is seeking a highly skilled Senior Controls Engineer to work on-site in Albuquerque, NM. As the Senior Controls Engineer, you will be responsible for providing team leadership in delivering automation systems for a wide variety of industries.
Key Responsibilities:
Demonstrated technical proficiency in implementing automation solutions with PLC, DCS, HMI, and SCADA platforms.
Interact directly with the customer and lead a team engineers in identifying requirements, developing specifications, and implementing/testing/commissioning/qualifying automation solutions.
Leadership role requiring strong problem-solving ability, well-balanced people skills, an aptitude for business efficiency, and an interest in creating partnerships.
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 our 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 the clients 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. The Controls Engineer would 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 $1M. This position is often responsible for ensuring the overall profitability of the project
The ideal candidate must have a diverse engineering skillset with the ability to work independently.
Act as technical lead on projects and guide lower-level engineers and technicians. Could also act as Project Manager on smaller projects.
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 with capabilities in below areas:
Candidates with Rockwell and Cimplicity experience will be given preference
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 ICONICS Genesis64, Wonderware ArchestrA System Platform, GE CIMPLICITY, GE iFIX, Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View, Schneider, and Siemens
In-depth understanding of DCS hardware/software platforms such as Emerson DeltaV or similar
Experience in industries such as Semiconductor chip fabrication facilities, Life Sciences, Building Automation, Food and Beverage, Oil & Gas and Mining
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
Professional references, preferably one from each of the following: a subordinate, a peer, and a manager
Field device/equipment troubleshooting
Job estimating
If you are a highly motivated and skilled Senior Controls Engineer with Leadership experience, we encourage you to apply for this position directly and then send your resume to agresko@trisian-global.com for immediate review.