Automation Engineer
CIMA+
Total years of experience :11 years, 2 Months
- Review and approve design specifications for application validity
- Material/equipment selection, and system design
- Design, Program, and commission RTU and PLC power distribution substation control system.
- Client witnessed FAT testing
- Engineering coordination with other disciplines
- Complete Programming of different PLC, HMI, And SCADA systems for various water system projects.
- Organize site commissioning on a project level and address concerns for all field personnel as they relate to specific process systems.
- Define solutions for unexpected equipment behavior within an integrated process.
- Service calls as required.
- Calibration, configuration, and loop testing of all project instrumentation.
- Projects ranging from Alarm monitoring to Water Treatment Plants with remote site integration and associated radio and/or serial communications.
- Manage parts orders and inventory.
- Act as branch purchaser.
- Define solutions for organizational strategies due to rapid expansion.
- Recommend product alternatives for customer requirements.
- Responsibility for all employees.
- Identify customer needs and recommend product specific solutions.
- Determine individual customer sales strategies.
- Report to sales team of possible leads to new opportunities.
- Keep detailed customer profiles.
- Construction of electrical, pneumatic, and satellite wellhead control strategies.
- Calibration and configuration of various instruments.
- Fieldwork including construction and maintenance as required.
- HVAC, access and lighting design accurate to client specifications.
- Implement various types of control architecture via Delta Controls BACnet product line.
- Plan HMI interface integrated with GCL programming.
- Commission programming algorithms against job specific I/O.
- Compile as built drawings for customer reference.
- Plant maintenance.
- Calibration and configuration of various instruments.
- Work in a safe manor around plant hazards.
- Rebuild and repair electrical components, water and oil pumps.
- Make accurate customer estimates.
- Trouble-shoot and service on and off road machinery.
- Lead in the production of hose assemblies.
- Rebuild and repair complete track assemblies.
- Pick-up and delivery.
Honors with overall weighted average of 92%. - Argus Scholarship - Jason Lang Scholarship Scientific principles related to the flow of fluids. Physical and thermal properties of solids, liquids and gases; heat transfer in materials; pressure and hydrostatic head; surface tension; vapour pressure; buoyancy; Bernoulli's equation; fluid friction and pipe losses; gas laws; and thermodynamics of steam. Applications to orifice flow and metering. Smart instrumentation, and installation considerations. Single loop digital controllers; density; mass flow; flame detection; flow provers; level measurement systems; smart instrumentation; hazardous location and classifications; and intrinsic safety. Configuration and programming of PLCs and RTUs. Programs for both hardware platforms in languages defined by the IEC 61131-3 standard. Industrial communications and data networks. Transmission media, serial communication, networking devices. Operating principles, applications, calibration, maintenance and installation requirements of analyzers. Chromatography, mass spectrometry, IR & UV spectroscopy, and electrochemical methods. Design and evaluation of complete analyzer systems. Design, select and size instruments for level, pressure, temperature and flow systems. Project management skills of analysis, scheduling, estimating, economics and supervision. Company specifications and industrial and government codes. The skills and knowledge are developed to produce a bid package for the design, procurement and installation of the instrumentation required for a segment of an actual production plant. Theory and application of advanced control strategies including: adaptive, cascade, feed forward, ratio, selective, multivariable and statistical process controls. Control strategies employed in a number of common control applications including: compressors; boilers; distillation columns; chemical reactors; and heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems.