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Senior Instrumentation and Controls Engineer
Location : Tewksbury, MA
Type : Direct Hire
ID : j-11694
Posted : Oct 14, 2024
The client is looking for someone with a solid chemical, electrical or computer engineering background and 5 to 10 years of relevant process automation experience.
The successful candidate will act as a project lead supervising, and contributing to, all aspects of controls system design, instrument specification, programming, purchasing, installation and start-up.
You will work closely with fellow team members to create and deliver a successful project.
Ideal Candidate Will Have :
- Bachelor’s Degree in chemical, electrical or computer engineering.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in process automation.
- The ability to deal with challenges thrown up by complex engineering projects and have the people and time management skills to overcome them.
- The practical knowledge of design and requirements engineering from a systems and process model based viewpoint; an understanding of the relation between system design and system architecture.
- The ability to understand the concepts and state-of-the-art technology on a range of manufacturing techniques employed by manufacturing engineering clients across a number of sectors from Battery to life science.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, with multiple and changing priorities while maintaining strong attention to detail and a high level of accuracy.
- Ability to interpret P&ID’s, electrical schematics, loop drawings and general equipment arrangement drawings.
- Understanding of DCS / PLC physical layer and control hardware.
- Working knowledge of AutoCAD software.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Products (Excel, Word, Access, Project).
Required Job Tasks :
- Project lead with oversight of all Controls and Instrumentation components.
- Creation of overall system design based on client requirements.
- Specification of control system equipment and materials.
- Generate scopes of work and procure vendor bids for assigned projects or proposals.
- Review vendor submittals for compliance with project requirements and specifications.
- Lead and / or execute pre-FAT / FAT on OEM or customer supplied equipment.
- Lead and / or execute site startup activities (loop checks / commissioning).
- Generate and manage loop check / commissioning documentation.
- Generate and manage project punch lists to completion.
- Troubleshoot traditional analog and discrete signals as well as other communication types (HART, Profibus, DeviceNet, AS-I, Ethernet I / P, Modbus).
- Use a multimeter to support control loop testing and / or troubleshooting of wiring and connectivity issues.
- Utilize DCS / PLC platform software to support troubleshooting.
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