Position: Controls System Engineer
Location: Houston, TX (Onsite)
Exp: 5-12 Yrs
Only USC, GC, TN visa holders; NO to CPT, OPT
Candidate needs to be on your W2 (No Sub-contractor allowed)
What You will Do:
- Develop state-of-the-art controls & automation systems technology.
- Lead development (develop code for PLC, NI or related software control systems), commissioning, and testing of control systems for frac and stimulation equipment.
- Design and implement automation system networks, including specifying communications protocols, communications media and associated hardware.
- Conduct hardware & software verification and validation.
What You Will Bring:
- Experience in oil & gas and power generation preferred.
- Experience in large-scale industrial processes (chemical, pharmaceutical, oil & gas refining)
- Proven experience in the development of advanced controls systems and Human Machine Interface (HMI) including PLC-based systems including model-based predictive and corrected parameter controls including the application of plant level modeling.
- Strong background and experience in signal processing and analysis, control systems, system dynamics, and associated mathematics and computation.
- Experience with system identification, data acquisition, measurement, and estimation techniques.
- Experience with industrial communication protocols (e.g., Modbus, UDP/TCP, CAN, Profinet, more) for system integration
- Experience with sensors, actuators, pumps, VFDs and other industrial automation hardware is a plus.
- Experience with system safety design: IEC 61508, IEC 61131-3, functional safety (SIL).
Competency, Skills & Abilities
- Expertise implementing Siemens TIA portal, Allen Bradley, and/or National Instrument cRIO control systems.
- Ability to program in Microsoft VS, other IDE, C# and C++, Phyton, Java, MATLAB is a Plus.
- Ability to read and interpret electrical and mechanical drawings and diagrams, electrical schematics, piping and instrument drawings (P&IDs), flow charts and cause and effect diagrams.
- Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and technical communication skills.
- Support commissioning activities for field installations as needed.
Qualifications
- Skills acquired through the completion of an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering or similar discipline and 4 years of related experience.
- Completion of a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering or similar discipline is preferred.