What are the responsibilities and job description for the Instrumentation & Controls Engineer position at Nationwide Technical & Executive Search?
Instrumentation & Controls Engineer
Pittsburgh, PA
Onsite, Permanent / Direct Hire, Full Benefits
Relocation Assistance Available
The Automation Engineer is responsible for the overall development, administration, implementation, maintenance and troubleshooting of various operations networks, historian servers, HMI’s and web services. Other responsibilities include network monitoring, performance analysis, development / implementation of standards and internal customer support and fault / problem management / resolution. The Automation Engineer will coordinate with plants, internal customers and contractors, as necessary to achieve the goals above.
Responsibilities & Duties :
- Assist the North American Operations with the new / existing network systems by providing programming, design and troubleshooting to maintain, backup and improve performance regarding network infrastructure, firewalls, services, data networks, HMIs, historian servers, data reliability and PLC operations.
- Assist and support other Automation Engineer’s in troubleshooting and programming of PLCs with emphasis on Rockwell Contrologix, Compact Logix, Wonderware operator stations and historians.
- Front line contact for any failures of network and computer equipment related to the operations networks and computer systems.
- Support maintenance and troubleshooting of Wonderware Operator Station systems including InTouch, System Platform, InTouch Anywhere and Historian.
- Support maintenance, improvement and troubleshooting of Process Data storage, associated data client users, plant networks and backups.
- Support maintenance, design, improvement and troubleshooting of Process web services : Downtime, Customer interfaces, operator portals.
- Develop, update and maintain system documentation : Standards, configurations, network diagrams, address tables etc.
- Support developing new controls and cloud infrastructure for advanced process controls.
- Perform and maintain backups of all critical data, systems and programs.
- Maintain existing control workstations. Configure, and deploy new workstations to sites as required
- In collaboration with the production and engineering teams, design, implement and optimize the control systems to ensure safety and environmental compliance as well as productivity, efficiency, reliability and quality of our products and systems.
- Generate, review and approve project control programs and functional control specifications.
- Direct and coordinate internal and external resources assigned to projects.
- Commissioning of electrical and automation networking systems. Receive systems from vendors ensuring the scope is fulfilled and the functionality and documentation are complete.
- Meet the end users expectations with a focus on functional effectiveness, long term reliability, and ease of maintenance.
- Interface with equipment and system integration vendors including expediting documentation and deliveries.
- Additional duties as assigned by management.
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