Job Title:
Instrumentation and Control Engineer

Company: Amtec Inc.

Location: new orleans, LA

Created: 2024-04-20

Job Type: Full Time

Job Description:

Job SummaryThe Controls Engineer will be a critical member of the Company's Engineering & Construction team, reporting directly to the Director, Platform Instrumentation & Controls.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.The successful candidate will be a self-starter that enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, strong commitment to deadlines and team, is process oriented with a high sense of ownership in their work, possesses a high degree of intellectual curiosity, and has a superior controls and instrumentation foundation.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 controland 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 loopdiagrams, 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.* Inspects, tests, calibrate, adjusts, and repairs electric, electronic, mechanical, and pneumaticinstruments and systems used to indicate, record, and control.* Inspects meters, indicators, and gauges to detect failures and process defects.* Calibration of accuracy of flowmeters, pressure transmitters, temperature transmitters,controllers, and other recording devices. Additionally, including indicating instruments used tolocate defective components in the process system such as pressure gauges, mercurymanometers, potentiometers, pulse and signal generators, ammeters, voltmeters, and powermeters.* Plan and schedule corrective and preventive maintenance work orders for all types ofinstruments.* Work with operations and maintenance personnel to complete work orders on all types andlevels of instrumentation and controls.* Will work with management to create reports from the process control DeltaV historian.