Hybrid Control Engineer – Energy and Infrastructure Solutions

at TMEIC

• Job title: Control Engineer – Energy and Infrastructure Solutions
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: ERP
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Houston, United States

About the role

• Control Engineer providing hardware and software design for drive, inverter, motor, and control solutions in industrial applications. Fulfilling client needs and project requirements while ensuring quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide hardware and software design for drive, inverter, motor, and control solutions for the business unit’s (BU) industries that meet client needs and fulfill project requirements
• Interpret client specifications and apply industry codes and standards to all products supplied to meet project requirements
• Create equipment specifications, bills of materials, and drawings, utilizing Company approved tools, that accurately reflect each project’s equipment and product needs to ensure a design that meets project requirements and quality standards
• Prepare purchase specification and ERP requisition in a timely manner to achieve the project schedule
• Track all revisions to the specifications and drawings, complying with established change control procedures
• Edit project drawings to reflect preliminary, manufacturing, as shipped, and final “As-Installed” configurations
• Update the project drawings as needed in support of site commissioning activities
• Develop project documentation in accordance with design standards and project requirements
• Control document distribution, and archiving using established document control procedures
• Interpret and implement software project design requirements in collaboration with the project team and client
• Build control system software files as needed for products supplied with a project
• Develop and document software interfaces to client and third-party systems
• Perform system test and simulation to ensure quality functionality
• Demonstrate product capabilities during client witness of system test as needed
• Provide technical instruction to commissioning engineers and clients during system installation
• Develop engineering standards and engineering practices as assigned that contribute to the development of the Company’s engineering automation tools to improve productivity, increase quality, and reduce cost
• Provide timely technical guidance to internal and external clients and suppliers as required to ensure total project requirements are met
• Provide on-site commissioning as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, mechatronics engineering or related field, or equivalent via education and/or work experience
• 2 years’ design experience in circuit and control panel design and/or commissioning of control systems for industrial applications
• Demonstrated knowledge of industry standards related to control panel design including device selection, cable selection etc.
• Demonstrated knowledge of industrial PLC and field I/O
• Demonstrated experience using AutoCAD or equivalent drawing tool for industrial applications
• Demonstrated success as contributing member in project team
• Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts
• Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills
• Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, Outlook
• Availability to travel, domestically and internationally, up to 15%, sometimes, with limited notice
• 5 years of design experience, specializing in motor drive design, utility scale photovoltaic inverter systems, circuit design and/or control panel design (Preferred)
• Electrical hardware design experience (Preferred)
• Exposure to electrical panel design, wiring and build (Preferred)
• Familiarity with industrial PLC and associated I/O (Preferred)
• Familiarity with industrial panel manufacturing and commissioning practices (Preferred)
• Demonstrated experience with software design for industrial PLC, distributed I/O, and HMI systems (Preferred)
• Advanced Excel Skills (Preferred)
• Familiarity with Visual Basic programming or equivalent (Preferred)