Project Engineer

ABB Inc.; Kansas; Remote; USD 65,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology leader is seeking a Project Engineer to provide technical leadership and manage engineering teams with a focus on safety, quality, and client relations. This role can be performed remotely or from specific offices in the U.S. Candidates should have a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering, as well as expertise in SCADA systems and PLC programming. The expected salary range is between $65,100 and $104,160 annually.

Benefits

Health insurance options

401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions

Paid holidays and vacation

Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• 3+ years of work experience in SCADA system design, integration, or industrial automation.
• Proficiency in PLC programming and HMI development.
• Understanding of networking and cybersecurity concepts.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to meet business metrics regarding safety and quality.
• Effectively communicate with customers and cross-cultural teams.
• Drive the technical skillset portfolio for business opportunities.

Skills

SCADA system design

Industrial automation

PLC programming

HMI development

Networking concepts

Cybersecurity concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Allen Bradley PLC

Siemens PLC

ABB PLC

Schneider PLC

Emerson PLC

Job description

Overview

At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we'll give you what you need to make it happen. It won't always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you'll never run alone. Run what runs the world.

This Position reports to: Senior Engineering Manager

What we believe in

At ABB, we are dedicated to addressing global challenges. Our core values: care, courage, curiosity, and collaboration - combined with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities - are key drivers in our aim to empower everyone to create sustainable solutions. Thats our story. Make it your story.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Project Engineer, you will demonstrate leadership, communicate business goals, and provide support in team management and coordination for engineered solutions. In this role you will drive the performance and quality of an engineering team to ensure that all executed activities meet the required short-term and long-term business goals.

Approach customers with integrity and respect, for long lasting relationships. You will utilize your experience and expertise to solve problems, develop and execute objectives for yourself and the team.

This position is open to full-remote work or based out of either our Houston, TX office or Lake Mary, FL office. This role is contributing to the Electrification Distribution Solutions group in the United States.

You will be mainly accountable for

• Providing technical leadership to meet business metrics regarding safety, quality, on-time delivery, and talent retention.
• Effectively communicate with internal and external customers, cross-cultural teams for successful planning and execution of multi-discipline control systems.
• Drive the team's technical skillset portfolio for more business opportunities.
• Travel domestically to customer sites 25% or as needed.

Qualifications for the role

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Control Systems, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of work experience in SCADA system design, integration, or industrial automation.
• Proficiency in PLC programming (e.g., Allen Bradley, Siemens, ABB, Schneider, Emerson) and HMI development, alarming, trends and control logic.
• Familiarity with communication protocols: Modbus, DNP3, IEC 61850, OPC, TCP/IP, etc.
• Understanding of networking and cybersecurity concepts in industrial control systems. Experience in control system architecture design and development.
• Hands-on experience with testing, commissioning, and troubleshooting automation systems.

More about us

ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid. The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users. With ABB Ability enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium-voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contactors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors, motor control centers, as well as low-voltage switchgear for the ANSI standard markets.

Why ABB?

What's in it for you

We want you to bring your full self to work-your ideas, your energy, your ambition. You'll have the tools and freedom to grow your skills, shape your path, and take on challenges that matter. Here, your work creates impact you can see and feel, every day.

ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer for protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities at ABB.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their sex (gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation), marital status, citizenship, age, race and ethnicity, inclusive of traits historically associated with race or ethnicity, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hairstyles, color, religious creed, national origin, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetic information, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal and state law.

For more information regarding your (EEO) rights as an applicant, please visit the following websites: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf

As an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer for Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities, applicants may request to review the plan of a particular ABB facility between the hours of 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. EST Monday through Friday by contacting an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762.

Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access ABB's career site as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by calling an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762 or by sending an email to [e-mail]. Resumes and applications will not be accepted in this manner. #LI-Remote

ABB Benefit Summary for eligible US employees

[excludes ABB E-mobility, Athens union, Puerto Rico]

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Health, Life & Disability

• Choice between two medical plan options: a PPO plan (Copay Plan) or a High Deductible Health Plan with a Health Savings Account
• Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
• Vision benefit
• Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
• Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
• Voluntary life and AD&D - 100% employee paid up to maximums
• Short Term Disability - up to 26 weeks - Company paid
• Long Term Disability - 60% of pay - Company paid; ability to buy-up to 66 2/3% of pay
• Supplemental benefits - 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance)
• Parental Leave - up to 6 weeks
• Employee Assistance Program
• Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
• Employee discount program

Retirement

• 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
• Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)

Time off

• ABB provides 11 paid holidays. Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.

While base salary is determined by qualifications and experience, this position is expected to pay between $65,100 and $104,160 annually.

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We value people from different backgrounds. Could this be your story? Apply today or visit www.abb.com to read more about us and learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe. #MyABBStory

We value people from different backgrounds. Could this be your story? Apply today or visit www.abb.com to read more about us and learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe.