Edoxx Technical Services LLC is a US Company based in Houston, Texas, with access to +350 highly experienced and advanced Engineers and Technicians delivering know-how and expertise in Civil, Mechanical, Piping, Electrical, and Instrumentation engineering. Other related fields such as Projects Control, QA/QC Inspection, 3D Geometrical and Intelligent Modeling, and Drafting are also available.
Our client is looking for a Senior Instrumentation & Electrical Engineer to work on-site at their Charleston, WV office. This person will provide instrumentation/controls and electrical team supervision on projects by directing project execution activities and department deliverable creation for one larger or several smaller projects.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Supporting and leading a team of supporting engineers and designers to complete project deliverables.
- Scheduling and directing projects within the Electrical-Instrumentation-Controls Department.
- Determining scope of work, job objectives, and work-hour budgets on projects assigned to the group in concurrence with the Department Manager.
- Performing and reviewing the analysis and design activities in completing complex engineering design projects from general drawings and instructions.
- Directing other engineers, designers, and drafters in the production of construction drawing packages.
- Providing detailed instrumentation and control designs for distributed control systems, programmable logic controllers, loop diagrams, instrument location plans, junction box layouts, marshalling panel layouts, conduit and cable schedules, instrument indexes, input/output lists, and installation details using company standards and drafting techniques.
- Assuming responsibility for technical accuracy and constructability of finished designs.
- Performing thorough checks of Instrumentation design packages following required checking procedures.
- Ensuring any changes comply with project change management processes.
- Assisting during procurement, construction, and commissioning activities.
- Keeping current with the latest developments and technical innovations in instrument and controls engineering.
- Communicating effectively with the electrical, instrument, and controls engineering team and project stakeholders, including the Customer.
- Provide input to P&ID’s including instrument selection.
Technical and Industry Experience:
- Highly effective technical and practical engineering skills with experience in the polymer industry.
- A sound knowledge of the fundamental requirements of instrument and controls engineering, and the basic requirements of other engineering fields.
- A sound knowledge of applicable local and international standards and statutory and regulatory requirements.
- Experience specifying instrumentation for level, pressure, temperature, flow, weight, analyzers, etc.
- Experience specifying Distributed Control Systems (ABB, Honeywell, DeltaV, Ovation, etc.) and Programmable Logic Controllers (Allen-Bradley, Automation Direct, Eaton, etc.).
- Experience writing control narratives from which programmers can develop code.
- Experience with Safety Integrated Systems and performing SIL calculations.
- Competent use of electrical, instrument, and controls engineering specific software such as:
- InstruCalc
- SPI
- Aveva Instrumentation
- Fisher Specification Manager
- SILsolver
- AutoCAD
- MicroStation
- Navisworks
- ETAP
- SKM Power Tools
- SPEL
- DIALux
- TraceCalc Pro
- Substantial technical and practical experience in instrument and controls and/or electrical engineering in the same or similar industry including experience in working in multi-disciplinary projects and teams.
