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Sr. Controls and Instrumentation Engineer Location: Sandy City, UT

SARANAC LAKE, NY
2019-12-20 10:10:10
Job Type: Full Time only
Budget $: 100,000 - 200,000

Sr. Controls and Instrumentation Engineer

Location: Sandy City, UT

Responsibilities

  • Work safely and ensure appropriate safe guards are in place to mitigate hazards and prevent incidents
  • Act as Controls and Instrumentation Engineer lead in directing and interfacing with other I&C engineers as required
  • Design, develop and test new control systems as well as maintaining and modifying existing systems
  • Provide programming development, testing and support for expert control systems (ECS), programmable logic controllers (PLC), human machine interfaces (HMI) and process networks
  • Work collaboratively with design engineers, plant engineers, IS and other internal staff
  • Participate in the development, implementation and compliance of plant process network standards Liaison with consultants, contractors and suppliers
  • Engage appropriate support to ensure compliance with relevant health, safety and environmental regulations and quality standards
  • Purchase equipment specific to instrumentation, control and network systems
  • Analyze data and present findings in clear written reports
  • Learn plant operations and existing systems (control, network, data management, etc.)
  • Calibrate instrumentation, tune control loops and optimize advanced controls and expert control systems
  • Able to work irregular hours or be on-call occasionally to support project implementation to deal with faults which occur at the plant operations.

Qualifications

  • Degree in control and instrumentation engineering or other engineering curriculum with controls and instrumentation experience
  • Minimum ten years\' experience controls and/or process engineering experience in lime or equivalent industry
  • Demonstrated skills in specific control disciplines such as:
  • advanced process control (APC)
  • multiple-input & multiple-output (MIMO) with model predictive control (MPC)
  • distributed control systems (DCS)
  • programmable logic controllers (PLC)
  • supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)
  • Frequent travel (up to 50% plus) including cross-border travel to Canada and Mexico.
  • Creative problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
  • Excellent critical thinking skills
  • Understanding of and ability to work with high-level computer technology

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