Entry-Level Travel Field Engineer – Electrical & Controls

Wunderlich-Malec Engineering, Inc.; Lakewood (CO); On-site; USD 74,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life and AD&D

Long Term Disability

HSAs & FSAs

PTO

401(k)/Profit Sharing

Employee Stock Ownership Plan

Tuition Reimbursement

Referral Bonus

Job summary

Wunderlich-Malec's Lakewood, CO engineering group seeks an entry-level Field Engineer or Technician eager to gain hands-on experience. You will work on electrical and controls projects, coordinate with subcontractors, program PLC/SCADA/HMI, and support commissioning and startup.

Ideal candidates are recent graduates or have up to 2 years of field experience, familiar with instrumentation and low voltage control design, with a willingness to travel up to 100% across US locations.

Qualifications

• BS Electrical, Computer, Chemical, or Mechanical Engineering preferred. An AA in Engineering Technology or equivalent field technician experience may be substituted.
• New Graduate or 0-2 years of field experience.
• Understanding of or exposure to field instrumentation, hardware panels and low voltage controls design.
• Understanding of control systems, PLC programming, SCADA programming and their applications.

Responsibilities

• Installation & Wiring QA/QC Verification including control panels and associated instruments (Level 2). Ensure devices and/or equipment, associated with the control system, have been installed and wired per the manufacturer’s requirements as well as the submitted and approved package shop drawings and documentation
• Point-to-Point testing to ensure field devices, associated with the control system, have been installed per the submitted and approved system shop drawings and documentation. This process also verifies the data to and from field devices are properly configured in the control system and includes data that may be read via network integration
• Functional Performance Testing (FPT) to ensure the control system and field devices operate as defined by the relevant design (Level 4) Verification of the proper execution of control sequences, alert configuration, alert activation, trend displays, trend configurations, control system failures, and overall verification of the system graphics
• Support System Level Testing to ensure the control system and field devices functionally perform as one system (Level 5). Verify proper execution of control sequences with all relevant systems operating to achieve a common goal. During this testing, the SCADA is used to navigate the different areas and views of the facility, alerts are activated, trend displays are monitored, and system failure scenarios are examined

Skills

Field engineering

Control systems

Instrumentation

Teamwork

Education

BS Electrical Engineering

AA in Engineering Technology

Tools

PLC programming

SCADA programming

HMI programming

Job description

Wunderlich-Malec's Lakewood, CO engineering group seeks an entry-level Field Engineer or Technician eager to gain hands-on experience. You will work on electrical and controls projects, coordinate with subcontractors, program PLC/SCADA/HMI, and support commissioning and startup.

Ideal candidates are recent graduates or have up to 2 years of field experience, familiar with instrumentation and low voltage control design, with a willingness to travel up to 100% across US locations.