Overview & ResponsibilitiesNature of the Job: The
Controls Engineer - Field Service role involves the same activities as our current Technical Field Service Advisors but focuses on controls rather than mechanical rotating equipment. The Controls Engineer will provide customers with technical advice, analyze system controls, and modify programming as necessary to ensure the controls of rotating equipment operate as per design.
The four most important aspects of the job are:
- Analyzing PLC and written code to ensure rotating equipment operates within specified parameters.
- Performing electrical and instrumentation checks using diagnostic equipment.
- Troubleshooting the entire rotating equipment train to locate equipment not functioning based on given control commands.
- Writing professional daily and final reports of work performed, which are delivered to customers as final documentation of the job.
The activities will be governed by API and Ansi requirements, necessitating knowledge of these regulatory requirements. The position requires a unique individual who has programming experience and knowledge on non-OEM equipment, as work will not always be on EEE equipment.
Contact with Others: - Internal Contacts: Regular contact with the internal FS team, including coordinators, project managers, purchasing, tooling, and the regional FS manager.
- External Contacts: Direct contact with customer plant managers, maintenance managers, and reliability engineering teams.
- Travel Requirements: 70-80% travel throughout North America.
Supervision: The position is primarily that of an Individual contributor. However, the individual will occasionally provide direction on field jobs when the customer hires EEE to perform a turn-key solution. This direction includes:
- Lining out the schedule of activities.
- Turning in time to payroll for the crews.
- Monitoring the progress of the team during the execution of projects.
Specific Job Responsibilities/Competencies: - Independently directs the field installation and commissioning of EEE and non-OEM supplied control systems. Independently coordinates, follows up, and provides technical expertise to users on engineered control systems.
- Verifies accurate instrument calibrations.
- Performs instrument loop and point-to-point wiring checks.
- Verifies logic functions work as intended.
- Coordinates logic and programming changes with Controls Engineering when logic issues are discovered.
- Provides timely site job reports and status updating reports to supervision.
- Provides technical expertise to Elliott Controls Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Project Management, Purchasing, Production, Service, and Associate Plants on complex problems.
- Executes site acceptance testing at User locations.
- Documents and reports all logic and software changes in the field service report and in other written form to the customer.
- Returns final as commissioned software code to field service job folders for archiving.
- Maintains programming skill level on various OEM PLCs by using control engineering lab PLC hardware to write and test code.
- Learns programming of different PLC vendors through a combination of self-teaching, working with other control engineers, and attending vendor training.
- Maintains knowledge of company objectives and strategic and technical plans as applied to assignments and all related products, systems, and functions.
- Participates in Technical Service management team activity as assigned.
- Seeks, reflects, and implements productivity and quality ideas relating to assigned functions and overall organizational activities.
- Become proficient as an FSR on other products, such as Cryogenics, New Apparatus, compressor, and turbine product lines.
- Performs other duties as assigned by supervision.
Background & Experience: - Education Requirement: Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited academic institution with 10 years of field controls experience, or proven experience on HMI interfaces and development, and DCS or PLC based control systems and PLC programming.
- Preferred Experience: Has a minimum of six years of applicable engineering experience. Prior field experience installing and commissioning controls systems at user sites is a significant plus.
- Required Know-How / Skills: Technical knowledge of a function, product, or process, intensive knowledge of policies and procedures, and analytical skills.
