Overview

In this role you would serve as an Instrumentation & Control Engineer working closely with engineers and technical staff and researchers to design, deploy and operate systems used for control and protection of engineering systems for plasma experiments at PPPL as well as both international and national collaborations.

This position will support the design, development, testing and operational phases of projects undertaken at PPPL. It will require the successful candidate to work closely with scientific and other engineering and technical staff to develop novel solutions in support of such projects.

Responsibilities

Core Duties:

This role includes hands-on work to test systems, diagnose failures and render repairs if needed.

The percent breakdown across various duties is:

• Design, Maintain and Support instrumentation and control systems: 60%
• Daily operation and maintenance of Control and Monitoring Systems: 15%
• Develop Diagrams, Drawings and Documentation for systems developed: 10%
• Apply controls theory to refine and improve the design of legacy and new systems: 15%

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

BS of above in:

• Electrical Engineering
• Computer Engineering or related discipline.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

The successful candidate has diversified knowledge of principles and practices in engineering instrumentation & control systems. They must be familiar with the technology commonplace in the instrumentation and control space. This includes software, design tools and underlying operating systems like MS Windows and Linux.

They must be a team player with the ability to communicate ideas effectively to others with varying levels of technical skills and work with a diverse set of scientists, engineers and technical staff with varying backgrounds. They communicate designs through presentations and are comfortable providing material for reviews.

The successful candidate will have experience with the following:

• Hardware interfacing and control, including signal conditioning.
• PLC device families including Allen-Bradley, Siemens in new and legacy systems.
• Creation and interpretation of PLC programs in Limited-Variability-Language (LVL), e.g. ladder logic, function block diagram, and sequential function chart.
• Development of operator HMIs including screens, alarm servers, and data historians.
• Application of controls theory on the design and tuning of fast and slow systems.
• Software version control and configuration management.
• Communication protocols such as TCP, UDP, Modbus, OPC.
• Requirements definition, creation of hardware and software design documents, test design and system integration.

The ideal candidate would also have experience in the following areas:

• Safety Systems design, programming, and maintenance per IEC-61511/61508.
• SCADA programs such as EPICS.
• Deriving novel control solutions from customer requirements or system documentation.
• HMI design per guidance in ISA-101 "Human-Machine Interfaces."
• Migrating legacy control systems to modern hardware and software.
• Electrically safe work practices, including establishing Lockout/Tagout.
• Database management and administration, eg SQL, HDF5 or MDSplus.

Physical Requirements:

• Primarily office work and occasional hands-on technical work.

Working Conditions:

• This position is on-site at PPPL Monday - Friday. We are not supporting Visas or relocation for this position.

Standard Weekly Hours

40.00

Eligible for Overtime

No

Benefits Eligible

Yes

Probationary Period

180 days

Essential Services Personnel (see policy for detail)

No

Physical Capacity Exam Required

No

Valid Driver's License Required

No

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Salary Range

$90,600 to $144,600