DCS Engineer(digital controls)

Is International; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in Alpharetta, Georgia is seeking a technical bridge to connect Digital Product Owners with the Engineering team. Candidates should have over 8 years in process control, particularly in combined cycle power plants. Responsibilities include designing control solutions, managing projects, and ensuring operational efficiency. This role involves travel and a commitment to safety standards, alongside innovative technology and data analytics integration.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in process control, preferably in combined cycle power plants.
• Legally authorized for employment in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement controls solutions in a Power Plant.
• Develop and test engineering modifications.
• Perform efficiency calculations for plant operations.

Skills

Innovation in problem-solving

Software Engineering

Data analytics

Advanced analytics

Knowledge of industrial communication protocols

Education

Bachelor of Science from an accredited university

Tools

SPPA-T3000

DCS system

HMI/SCADA system

Job description

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.