Control Systems / Scada Engineer

Powertech is an Electrical Engineering Services Provider delivering HV/LV & E&I engineering, installation, testing, commissioning, operations and maintenance and engineering services to our clients in the Mining, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Renewable Energy, Rail and Defence sectors across Australia and SE Asia.

Powertech are a trusted advisor to our diverse client base, our strengths are our people and building mutually beneficial long term client relationships. We value professional excellence, integrity, co-creation and a passion for solving our client’s problems.

We have an immediate requirement for a Senior SCADA / Control Systems Engineer to join our office in Murarrie on a permanent basis. As this is a permanent role, applicants either need to live locally or be willing to relocate. 

The successful candidate will be able to lead the development and detailed design of complex SCADA/Control Systems for major projects within the Renewable and Power Generation Sectors.

The Role:

• Design and develop full Control Systems solutions for assigned projects
• Ensure design and implementation is aligned to project technical specifications.
• Liaise with project managers, domain experts, and engineers in various disciplines for integration into overall project detailed design.
• Ensuring all work is completed to a high level of accuracy and quality.
• Ensure project schedule and budget is achieved.
• Provide key input into the selection of equipment for defined applications
• Technical and Project Report Writing.
• Develop and witness appropriate Factory Acceptance / Site Acceptance, Testing of engineered solutions.

The Person:

• Minimum of 5-7 years’ demonstrated experience in personally designing and delivering complex projects.
• Experience working with large scale SCADA systems, particularly in a testing capacity would be highly regarded.
• Tertiary qualification in Engineering (Mechatronics., Control Systems) or equivalent experience and relevant qualification in an electrical/instrumentation (QLD License).
• Should be proficient across a variety of DCS/SCADA-PLC solutions from concept design, detailed design and engineering support with implementation and FAT/SAT.
• Experience with DCS Systems (i.e.Yokogawa Centum DCS, Siemens Simatic PCS 7 etc.).
• Experience with SCADA Systems (i.e. Fast/Tools, Citect, FT View, WinCC etc.).
• Extensive experience with PLC Systems (i.e. Allen Bradley, Schneider Modicon, Siemens Simatic etc.).
• Extensive Process control background, with a bachelor’s degree or higher qualification in Mechatronics or Control Systems Engineering.
• PLC/SCADA/DCS system design and development/programming on major complex systems.
• Experience in designing, developing, and diagnosing PLC, RTU, HMI, SCADA and network systems.
• Ability to interpret control system requirements and create functional design specification (FDS), Interface Data Table (IDT), IO Summary, Cables, and termination schedules.
• Strong PLC design/programming, HMI experience
• Strong experience in Generator Control Systems / Inverters.
• Field instrumentation
• Process Control System (PCS)
• Experience with AutoCAD Electrical
• Networking and communications: TCP/IP, Ethernet/IP, Modbus, DNP3, MQTT, OPC DA/UA

Please provide full details of 3 major projects completed with your application letter detailing:

• Project Description and Value
• Hardware/Software Solution utilised and redundancy level
• Number and description of HMI pages
• Number of I/O and specific interfaces to third party devices (i.e., generator Control Systems etc)
• Alarm Logging - Management / Historian Database etc.
• Network type/ configuration/redundancy etc. 

Apply Now:

If you believe you meet the above criteria and would like to be considered for the role, please upload an updated resume and cover letter. We would take pleasure in to hearing from you.

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