American Water - Davenport, IA
posted 4 months ago
This position is responsible for implementing, maintaining, and supporting the automation and process control infrastructure (SCADA) at American Water. The role involves providing expert assistance and collaborating in creating engineering plans, designs, monitoring, building, and commissioning of automation and process control systems. The successful candidate will understand and apply new technological systems and multiple vendor products to develop and support innovative system solutions that align with operational and business requirements. Additionally, the position requires assisting in the development of standards, practices, and policies related to the installation, maintenance, and operations of automation and process control systems. The role also includes developing, deploying, and maintaining standard and custom programming and configuration code for the automation and process control systems. The individual will provide second-level support for maintaining the automation and process control infrastructure, which includes being on call as well as on-site when required. Managing automation and process control system projects as needed and performing quality assurance checks of automation and process control systems are also key responsibilities. The position requires collaboration with design engineers, operations personnel, and other internal staff on the design, review, information gathering, inspection, and commissioning/start-up of projects that include process control equipment or systems. The candidate must be able to execute projects from conception to start-up within budget and project schedule, develop programming and configuration code for process control systems, and review control logic strategies to optimize control strategies for treatment and pumping processes. Support and administration tasks include performing or coordinating maintenance activities on process control equipment or systems, troubleshooting and resolving control system issues, and advising operating company personnel on proper operation and maintenance of process control equipment or systems. The role also involves ensuring compliance with the Change Management process and developing and maintaining relationships with process control vendors to stay current with changes in operational control systems.