IS International Services

Compensation

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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). 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 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, IEC60870, IEC61850, 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.