Mechanical Design Engineer

HireTalent - Staffing & Recruiting Firm; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Part time

Job summary

A staffing firm in Houston seeks a Mid-Senior level Automation Engineer to lead process control initiatives in the Oil & Gas sector. Responsibilities include project management, customer interfacing, and ensuring compliance with industrial standards. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of automation experience, a relevant engineering degree, and proficiency in PLC and HMI programming. This contract role offers opportunities for development within a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in Automation in the Oil & Gas Industry.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience programming PLC and HMI applications.
• Knowledge of industrial control systems and safety systems.

Responsibilities

• Analyze customer requirements for optimal process control.
• Lead project planning, scheduling, and coordination.
• Maintain customer relationships and interface with management.

Skills

Automation in the Oil & Gas Industry

Control systems engineering

PLC applications programming

HMI applications programming

Client Logic Solvers

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering discipline

Tools

ControlLogix

CompactLogix

Thin Manager

Plant PAX

Job description

Overview

Be a contributing part of a project team but also responsible to lead and review all assigned engineering team and their assigned tasks for a project. Assign tasks, monitor performance, review results, coordinate efforts, and track hours usage on project. Prepare and organize assigned projects and work closely with the Project Manager to maintain and lower project costs, while providing the highest level of quality.

Responsibilities

• Functional
  • Responsible for analyzing customer\'s requirements to determine the optimal process control system solution and determines applicable control configuration/architecture
  • Responsible for conceptual process control systems design, determination of process control system strategy, design of assembled programming
  • Responsible for on-site process control system start-up as required
  • Responsible for parts creation, purchasing and project supplies activation on our IFS system
  • Responsible for applying codes and standards for industrial control systems including NEC, NFPA 72, 85, 86, IEC61511, IEC 61508, and UL508A.
• Leadership
  • Responsible for planning, scheduling, coordinating and monitoring resources for projects including setting and managing time-scales and budgets
  • Responsible for providing verbal and written reports to communicate project status as required and contributing to project review meetings
  • Responsible for visiting internal and external panel manufacturing facilities to assess progress, providing technical assistance and for final inspection and sign off
  • Responsible for leading an engineering program and manage multiple technical leads, ensuring common execution and practices across the program
• Interpersonal
  • Responsible for client liaison and interfacing with management
  • Responsible for developing and maintaining customer relationships
  • Team player with the ability to interact with other team project members and up to 5 Project Managers at a time
  • Interact with the Global Engineering center and Industry Teams and Engineering Managers
  • Capability to be assigned to several projects at a time
• Business
  • Responsible for project hardware/software for compliance with applicable codes/standards and assuring personnel/machinery safety practices are fully implemented
  • Coordinate customer requirements with engineering and other appropriate departments to ensure the highest level of customer satisfaction is achieved
  • Collaborates with the Proposals team to prepare cost estimates and review technical proposals
  • Collaborate with Sales and Solution Consultants on customer presentations, product demonstrations and commercial activities
  • Strong knowledge of following products/protocols: client FT View SE and ME, Studio 5000, ControlLogix, Guard Logix, CompactLogix, FT Historian, Thin Manager, Plant PAX
  • DLR, ControlNet, Modbus TCP/RTU, OPC DA/UA, PRP

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in Automation in the Oil & Gas Industry
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering discipline or equivalent
• Minimum of 5 years related experience in control systems engineering which relates to industrial automation systems (BPCS, CCS, SIS, BMS, HIPPS, LNG)
• Knowledge of client Logic Solvers (BPCS and/or Safety Systems) ControlLogix, CompactLogix, GuardLogix, AAdvance, Trusted
• Minimum of 5 years of experience programming PLC applications, basic and advanced process control (PID, Control sequence, Control narrative)
• Minimum of 5 years of experience programming HMI applications for local and network distributed applications (Process, Alarms, Database, Faceplates, Monitoring)
• Occasional travel and work at customer sites, including industrial plants, ships, offshore platform etc
• Experience of control system applications throughout the project lifecycle from initial design concepts through to installation and subsequent client support
• Familiarity with IT infrastructure (Microsoft Server), virtualization (vMware, thin clients), and database (OSI-PI, SQL) set-up, configuration and deployment would be a plus

Job details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Contract
• Job function: Automation/Machinery Manufacturing
• Industries: Automation Machinery Manufacturing