Sr. Automation and Controls Engineer

Advantages
- Excellent compensation and benefits
- Opportunities for career advancement

Responsibilities
-The successful candidate has completed a diploma or undergraduate degree in electrical engineering or related discipline and/or has obtained relevant industry certifications or designations.
-Prepares technical drafts of engineering scopes and designs control system technical specifications, system architecture drawings, PLC programming, HMI configuration, and network configuration.
-Defining, designing, developing, and commissioning plant-wide control systems for industrial projects in North America and globally, ranging from greenfield installations to plant modernizations.
-Designing the control system’s technical specifications (control narratives, functional descriptions), system architecture drawings, PLC programming (Allen-Bradley, Siemens), HMI configuration (Rockwell Software, Wonderware, Ignition).
-Specifying, designing, and configuring plant wide networks for Supervisory and Control Networks including device bussed systems.
-Configure process historians, manage automation database and data structures for network efficiency and IIOT connections.
-Preparing the technical portion of the detailed control engineering scope, inspection and test plans, construction scope of work, and commissioning plans.
-Effectively communicating with project stakeholders to resolve technical issues across all phases of the project.
-Providing construction supervision and leading commissioning and start-up activities during control system implementation.
-Ability to travel (5-20%) to support projects


Qualifications
-The successful candidate will have strong technical acumen related to PLC/HMI and control network design and deployment, combined with at least eight to ten years of experience in a similar engineering capacity.
-In-depth knowledge of PLCs, programming, instrumentation, and process control
-Previous experience in commissioning or plant modernization projects for complex industrial processing plants is an asset
-Project management skills and the ability to review plans and situations, and prioritize key requirements
-Advanced leadership skills and an ability to effectively manage a team of direct and indirect reports while contributing site-based commissioning


Summary
If you would like to be considered for this opportunity please forward your resume via email to Nick Paraskeva nick.paraskeva@randstad.ca

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