Adecco is currently hiring a full-time highly skilled and experienced (independent contractor) Senior Automation and Controls Engineer to join our client's dynamic team in Labrador City, NL. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining automation systems and control processes to optimize operations and ensure efficiency, safety, and reliability. You will play a critical role in driving innovation, troubleshooting complex systems, and mentoring junior engineers. If you are passionate about automation, enjoy solving complex engineering challenges, and are eager to make a meaningful impact, apply today!
- Location: Labrador City, NL
- Shift: 3 weeks on; 1 week off
- Job type: Temporary Full-time 10-month contract w/extendibility
- IC preferred
Here's why you should apply:
- Paid weekly accurate and on time
- Strong health and safety programs
- Medical and dental benefits once qualified
- Free training programs
- New and quicker onboarding process
Responsibilities:
- Application, design, configuration, and commissioning of Automation systems
- Lead capital projects development including feasibility studies, project scope definitions, capital cost estimates, preliminary and detailed engineering designs.
- Performs PLC and DCS programming
- Determines appropriate design deliverables based on project complexity
- Leads trouble shooting of automation systems and equipment
- Improves and upgrades existing assets and applies complex problem-solving techniques;
- Holds a key understanding of the project lifecycle, facility lifecycle and the engineering process
Qualifications and Skills:
- Must be legally eligible to work, and reside in Canada
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering - Automation, Electrical, Electronics, Control or Chemical
- P.Eng. designation
- Minimum 6 years of automation experience
- Preferably experience working at an engineering firm, automation solutions provider, or plant's engineering teams
- Experience working on industrial automation projects
- Strong DCS programming skills, highly experienced with Foxboro is required
- Strong PLC programming skills, preferably experienced with Allan Bradley Control Logix and PLC5
- Strong design knowledge of automation systems, control philosophy and applications.
- Experience developing operator interfaces, HMI
- Strong knowledge of network protocols DeviceNet, HART; working knowledge of Ethernet (TCP/IP),
- Experience in process control engineering and instrumentation
- Experience reading block flow diagrams, process flow diagrams, and P&ID's and translating into control narratives and other associated control system documents
- Experience in reading wiring diagrams, electrical drawings
- Preferable to have knowledge about variable speed drives and motor control centers
- Knowledge of alarm rationalization, functional safety in design
- Knowledge of PLC and DCS hardware, field instruments and equipment
