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Opening with our industrial client for a Senior Automation Engineer.
Looking for a Senior Automation Engineer with a background in one or more of the following industries: Oil & Natural Gas, Petrochemical, Chemical, Food and Beverage, Steel, Water/Waste Water, Power Generation, or other Specialty space.
Essential Functions
- Responsible for the specification, programming, integration, and implementation of various control systems including DCS/PLC/HMI/SCADA platforms and applications
- Lead I/O and loop checks, as well as all commissioning and startup activities, including progress reports, meetings, and punch-lists
- Lead projects from conception through commissioning and startup
- Lead a team of engineers to execute scope within budget and maintain go-live commitments
- Visit job-sites to evaluate projects and define scope in order to develop proposals from walk-downs
- Develop and support proposal development according to scope definition
- Review vendor drawings for compliance with project specifications
- Read, understand, and translate P&ID's and electrical drawings into a DCS/PLC/HMI application
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering required
- Minimum 10+ years in a technical leadership role on Automation and Controls projects, including Commissioning and Startup
- PE or Master's degree in related Engineering field a plus
- Automation System training/certification a plus
- Ability to execute and lead multiple projects simultaneously
- Experience configuring control systems for various industries and facilities
- Understands many other aspects of Industrial Automation, including roles of BPCS and SIS, Instrumentation, Communication protocols, and Networking and Cybersecurity
- Must be very organized, detail oriented, with the ability to identify outliers quickly
- Demonstrated field troubleshooting ability, both electrically (panel) and logically (PLC/DCS)
- Ability to travel to customer sites as required, with travel expectations averaging around 25%
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Our recruiters can help get your resume in front of hiring managers for some of the best known companies across the U.S.
We provide multiple avenues of employment to include contract, contract-to-hire and direct placement. Work options vary from onsite, hybrid to remote.
We have job openings in the fields of IT, engineering, accounting, finance and banking, along with administrative and customer service opportunities.
