Lead Control Systems Engineer: Emerson

Position Responsibilities:

• Maintain effective communication with project team members and with the customer
• Work with customer's process engineers to write automation and control functional requirements
• Be the technical lead, coordinate and work with other project technical disciplines, project management and customer representatives to lead multiple projects
• Proactively develop customer relationships; anticipate and provide solutions to customer needs giving high priority to customer satisfaction; facilitate the development of others' technical knowledge and skills, providing timely feedback and guidance to help them reach goals
• Develop control system definition, architecture, and topologies
• Participate in P&ID reviews with client process engineers and operators
• Work with product technologies provided by several DCS/PLC suppliers
• Apply various bus technologies to process control solutions
• Lead/participate on a team to plan and execute Customer Acceptance Testing, Site Acceptance Testing, commissioning, and start-up or hot-cutover at customer plant sites
• Supervise/coordinate field walk-downs of control systems and instrumentation

Qualifications:

• Legal authorization to work in the USA on a full time basis for other than current employer
• BSEE or BSChE or equivalent
• 8-12 years of Instrument/Electrical/Control System work associated with automation projects in a refinery or chemical plant
• Excellent technical knowledge of electrical, instrumentation, and control systems in plants, both current and legacy control systems
• General understanding of the development and installation of plant information networks
• Knowledge of the design part of project execution including location plans, installation details, loop diagrams, wiring diagrams and panel and console design
• Field walk-down experience in Refinery and Chemical plants
• Field experience with electrical circuits, MCCs, power supplies, grounding, UPS, and other components that pertain to instrumentation and control systems
• Ability to read/understand electrical motor schematics, one-line drawings, P&IDs
• Ability to work with end users
• Experience in delivering FEED studies
• Experience implementing both grass-root control system and brown-field re-instrumentation projects
• Experience executing both Fixed Price and Reimbursable projects
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Proven ability to work effectively in a team environment
• Ability to build and sustain customer relationships
• Ability to organize work, with good attention to detail
• Must convey a professional image with customers