Job Title:
Control Engineer

Company: PTS Advance

Location: New Orleans, LA

Created: 2024-04-24

Job Type: Full Time

Job Description:

Job Summary:The Controls Engineer will be a critical member of the Company's Engineering & Construction team, reporting directly to the Director, Platform Instrumentation & Controls.Be one of the first applicants, read the complete overview of the role below, then send your application for consideration.The successful candidate will also be expected to be responsible for assisting in the repair, maintenance, and retrofit of all instrumentation and controls which includes designing and maintaining of systems for district energy plants producing hot water, chilled water and steam and its energy transfer stations. Will be responsible for process control instrumentation maintenance and programming of the distributed control system and its peripherals. Will work extensively with Emerson DeltaV, Allen-Bradley PLCs and other types of logic controllers. Must be able to program, troubleshoot and maintain all instruments and logic controllers which utilizes programming languages: plain English structured text, sequential function chart, function block diagram and ladder logic.Duties & Responsibilities• Work independently and guide operations staff team members.• Provide up-to-date knowledge for various types of instruments and its appropriate applications.• Specify, review and selection of various types of instrumentation and control systems for control and monitoring of process equipment.• Collaborate with engineering firms to design electrical, instrumentation and control systems.• Design, review and integrate process instrumentation, controls systems, electrical equipment, and other plant components.• Design review and integrate electrical, control and instrumentation documents such as loop diagrams, control panel design and electrical installation details.• Design and program process control loops, tune control loops and have familiarity with PIDs.• Create process support documentation.• Create standard operating procedures.• Instrumentation and Controls support to operations.• Repair and maintenance of fiber optic network systems.Skills & Qualifications• A minimum 4-year bachelor's degree in engineering such as electrical, controls or instrumentation engineering.• Must have knowledge of PLC/HMI/SCADA/DCS hardware and software.• Strong knowledge of various instrumentation including flow, temperature, pressure and valves.• Must have experience with development and integration of various communication protocols such as CIP, Modbus RTU and Modbus TCP/IP.• Be able to read and understand P&ID and PFD diagrams.• Be able to read and understand loop diagrams, electrical schematics and one-line diagrams.• Plan, manage and coordinate Instrumentation and Controls activities.