Remote Process Tuner Field Engineer, DCS (Ovation)

Emerson Electric Co; Hartford (CT); Remote; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Emerson Electric Co. is seeking a Field Service Engineer with boiler experience for a Process Tuner Field Engineer – DCS role. The position is based in Houston, TX, with remote flexibility if you have Ovation DCS experience and are willing to travel up to 80% across North America.

You will manage resources for service and field projects, supervise Field Engineers, and partner with customers in the power sector to deliver performance targets on major retrofit projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field.
• At least eight (8) years of field engineering related experience.
• Strong understanding of power plant operation and controls.
• Strong understanding of control schemes for Boiler and Turbine on conventional and combined cycle plants as well as water treatment and renewable power generating facilities.
• Demonstrated experience tuning conventional, combined cycle, or renewable plants.
• Willingness and ability to travel 80% of time, primarily in North America.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced process tuning for Boiler or BOP processes.
• Work with plant operations teams, while at site, to ensure effective tuning of plant processes for optimized productivity of steam and electricity.
• Develop and implement startup and tuning activities for major retrofit projects.
• Generate and store tuning reports for all site tuning.
• Work with stimulation group to startup and tune high fidelity systems for different customer units.
• Conduct site acceptance and performance testing for major retrofit projects to meet contractual performance targets.
• Apply highly specialized knowledge and skills in an advisory or technical assistant role to engineering and management teams on complex technical or related problems.
• Contact customers to review and promote their needs for service, maintenance contracts, system adds, and stand-alone system requirements.
• Develop and advise the implementation of “engineered system” projects or system adds using current and non-current technologies.
• Provide project management on large projects during installation, start-up, or where it is required to supervise our subcontractors (such as system installers).
• Provide recommendations for hiring of Field Engineers and participate in interviews, performance evaluations, etc.
• Analyze, investigate, and resolve customer warranty and policy claims. This requires an in-depth knowledge of warranties and policies to settle claims promptly.

Skills

Field engineering

Power plant controls

Boiler tuning

Ovation DCS

Travel 80%

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field

Tools

Ovation DCS

Job description

Emerson Electric Co. is seeking a Field Service Engineer with boiler experience for a Process Tuner Field Engineer – DCS role. The position is based in Houston, TX, with remote flexibility if you have Ovation DCS experience and are willing to travel up to 80% across North America.

You will manage resources for service and field projects, supervise Field Engineers, and partner with customers in the power sector to deliver performance targets on major retrofit projects.