What are the responsibilities and job description for the Instrumentation and Control Engineer position at World Wide Technology?
Title : Industrial Controls Specialist
Location : Las Vegas, NV - Onsite
Duration / Type of Job : 6 months
This position is aligned to the Generation side of the business. Experience with Industrial Control Systems (ICS), Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Emerson Ovation or GE Mark Vie will be critical for this role.
The key skills for this resource will be :
Experience working in a Power Generation facility
Strong background as an engineer supporting Emerson Ovation or GE Mark Vie is required
VMWare vSphere, including vSAN, ESXi, and vCenter is nice to have but not required
Server management (hardware and software) understanding is preferred
Operating Systems, deployment, maintenance, upgrades, and patching
Basic scripting skills
Experience with software supporting patching, antivirus management, whitelisting, blacklisting, configuration management, network and system monitoring, or security and event monitoring
Basic Purpose
Provides engineering design and support services for the electronics and software (Operational Technology) required to control and manage power generation, automatic generation control and real-time energy management.
Conceives, develops and implements unique solutions to operational technology problems.
Conceives, develops and advocates strategies for managing obsolescence, replacements and upgrades.
Furnishes technical direction and project support to plant or control center staff on operational technology matters. Provides leadership and mentoring for junior engineering staff.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Provides control system software and hardware support to ensure safe, optimal and reliable operations.
Works with Operations and corporate technical staff for troubleshooting, determining solutions, and supporting corrective actions for instrumentation and programming logic issues.
Works with Operations to develop and implement control system logic, display modifications and custom functions.
Develops Common Information Models for new or modified Generation, Transmission and Distribution elements.
Works with the control system software vendors as required for trouble issues that have escalated for product support.
Provides control system user account administrations for Operations and Maintenance groups. Coordinates Electrical System Control Center (ESCC) local and site failovers for security patching, software upgrades, and other related maintenance.
Determines applicability and completes testing of security and application updates.
Assists team members in applying updates.
Manages and maintains installed computing infrastructure, including network and network connected devices.
Manages and maintains computing infrastructure asset inventory.
Provides beginning-to-end technical support for capital and operations and maintenance projects to include development of the business case, scope, budget, and schedule, as well as testing, installation and commissioning.
Evaluates and manages vendor and contractor support efforts related with modifications, maintenance and project activities.
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