Jacobs Solutions - Bingham Farms, MI
posted 4 months ago
About the position
At Jacobs, we are committed to challenging the status quo and redefining how to solve the world's greatest challenges. As a Senior Controls & Instrumentation Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in transforming abstract ideas into tangible solutions. Your work will involve collaborating with industry experts on mission-critical projects, including NASA's return to the moon and the development of fuel-efficient vehicles for international automotive manufacturers. You will be part of a team that tackles challenges in emerging technologies, cyber, intelligence, space exploration, energy transformation, and resiliency, ensuring national security and contributing to a more connected, sustainable world. In this role, you will lead teams in developing hardware assembly and wiring diagrams for control and data acquisition systems. You will also be responsible for the development of control system software designs that encompass various parameters such as temperature, pressure, humidity, and motion of mechanisms. Your expertise in PLC ladder logic, function block, and HMI programming will be essential as you develop interfaces to facility equipment and apply closed-loop control methods to continuously variable systems. Your responsibilities will extend to providing quality system processes, ensuring compliance with codes and standards, and offering on-site team direction during facility startup, checkout, and commissioning activities. You will coordinate with other engineering disciplines to ensure project success, plan labor resources, and schedule project milestones to meet technical scope, budget, and client timelines. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to mentor junior and mid-level engineers, guiding them through engineering and business development processes.
Responsibilities
- Lead teams in developing hardware assembly and wiring diagrams for control and data acquisition systems.
- Lead development of control system software designs that include control of temperature, pressure, humidity, flow, force, motion of mechanisms, system safety, human safety, and other advanced process and electromechanical systems.
- Develop control system software in PLC ladder logic, function block, HMI programming, etc.
- Develop interfaces to facility equipment using hardwired interfaces and industrial networks.
- Apply closed loop controls methods, both classical and modern, to control continuously variable systems.
- Provide quality system processes such as checking the work of others, following standard procedures, and ensuring compliance to codes and standards.
- Provide on-site team direction of facility startup, checkout, and commissioning activities, both domestically and abroad.
- Coordinate with other engineering disciplines and departments to ensure success.
- Plan labor resources and scheduling project milestones to ensure project completion within technical scope, budget, and client schedule.
- Develop proposals to capture future work with current clients and new markets.
- Lead control and data acquisition projects through all phases to include design, fabrication, implementation, testing and commissioning.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers on engineering and business development processes.
Requirements
- A Bachelor of Science in Electrical, Mechatronics, or Computer Engineering from an ABET accredited engineering program.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in control or data acquisition system design, implementation, and commissioning.
- Registration as a Professional Engineer in good standing is a plus.
- Experience in a lead engineer role, managing resources to a schedule and budget, coordinating with other disciplines, estimating labor requirements for new and existing projects.
- Experienced software developer in a high-level environment such as C/C++/C# or with an engineering application software tool such as LabVIEW, MATLAB and SIMULINK/SIMSCAPE.
- Experienced PLC and HMI software developer in one of the major environments (for instance, Rockwell Software Studio 5000, SIEMENS TIA Portal, Emerson PC ME) with a working knowledge of the other environments.
- Experience selecting, specifying, and procuring process instrumentation and actuation hardware, control and data acquisition system hardware, PLCs, drive and motion systems, automation network hardware, interconnect cabling and supporting equipment.
- A solid math background to select and develop data uncertainty calculations, digital filter algorithms, control transfer function realizations, and process simulation.
- An ability to lead single and multi-discipline engineering teams to deliver technically successful control and data systems, often unique one-of-a-kind systems.
- A desire to develop ingenious alternative approaches to challenges, and drive innovation during all phases of projects.
- US Citizenship.
Nice-to-haves
- Registration as a Professional Engineer in good standing is a plus.
