Sr Associate Engineer- Controls Design

Career Area:
Engineering
Job Description:
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Summary:
The main function the Engineer is to work on design of electrical loop schematic (ELS) , Single Line Diagram (SLD) and Electrical Panel Layout and assist in the development of turbomachinery projects. The Engineer will also work on design of turbine and driven equipment control systems and upgrades to existing field equipment.
Job Responsibilities:

• The Controls Design Engineer is responsible for the design of turbine and driven equipment control systems and upgrades to existing fielded equipment, while meeting established expectations for quality and timeliness (driven equipment includes, but is not limited to, gas compressors, pumps, and industrial power generators).
• The incumbent will work on New Product Development (NPD) projects or Custom order projects or existing equipment maintenance projects.
• The incumbent will interface with Project Application Engineering, Project Management, Plant Operations, Regional Field Engineers, Field Project Engineers, and other departments to ensure that projects are well defined and meet the scope of supply.
• The incumbent will create the electrical schematic, console and package electrical wiring diagrams, interconnect wiring schedule, controller and display (HMI) software.
• Additionally, the candidate will support Project Management to develop and define custom requirements, as well as supporting the manufacturing and test organizations through successful completion of the project, maintaining a close liaison with Standards Engineering to ensure that design improvements are incorporated into the relevant standard database(s) and will participate in HAZOPS, customer design reviews, technical task risk assessments, Factory Pre-Commissioning (FPC), acceptance tests and support field personnel through equipment commissioning.
• Understanding assembly and field issues and able to do investigations based on performing root cause analysis, defining corrective actions, and providing containment for diversified products and custom features.
• Investigated Change requests should be implemented using Promise-e CONNECT & Windchill Configurable products.
• This position includes electrical schematics design review for gas turbine engine and driven system packages in Bentley's Promis-e CONNECT design software to meet ANSI/IEC/CEC/NEMA/ISA standards.
• Responsible for the design & maintenance of electrical standard composite for new production sales order projects, aftermarket, new product development, retrofits, refurbishments, and upgrades to support varying configurations sold to the customer.
• To be part of Built In Quality gate process to reduce EDC (Engineering Design check) error counts.
• Implementing enhancements, system drawing corrections, and process corrections.

Skills:

• Sound Knowledge on PLC Systems, RSLogix 5000, HMI designer tools, hydro mechanical devices and control panel layouts.
• Strong work experience in PLC, Medium and Low voltage modules like switch gears, MCC, VFD, Generators, Battery charger etc.,
• Hands on experience with Electrical CAD package (Promis-e CONNECT), experience using AutoCAD, E-PLAN or similar is essential.
• Excellent communication and articulation skills is a must.
• Strong experience in Oil & Gas Industry, Electric Power Generation, Turbine domain, Renewable Energy generation , Electrical Panel developers etc is a must.
• Proficient in Product Life Cycle Management (PLM).
• Experience in New Product Development (NPI) Full product cycle.
• Strong Product knowledge and machine controls and subsystems (Fuel, Lubrication, Fire and Gas, Vibration, Auxiliary Systems Control, Balance of Plant (BOP) Systems).
• Strong Experience in Collaborating with Various Cross functional teams on understanding requirements to develop and implement new/improve processes.
• Conversant in Microsoft Excel. Knowledge on Boolean logical functions in Excel like AND, OR, NOT etc, Knowledge on SQL database.
• Experience in Installation, commissioning and troubleshooting of Gas turbines or power generation package will be an added advantage.
• Experienced in all project phases using Agile Methodologies (Scrum/Sprint/Azure DevOps).
• Project management and people management.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical & Electronics or Electrical Engineering with 5-8 years' or PG or Masters or equivalent with 3-5 experience required.

Relocation is available for this position.
Posting Dates:
September 6, 2024 - September 19, 2024
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).
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