DCS Engineer; digital controls

Position: 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, IEC
60870, IEC
61850, 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.