Senior Instrumentation & Control Engineer

Location: Los Angeles, California

Type: Permanent

Job #2538

Salary: Non 150,000

BOSS Energy Consulting LTD – Senior Instrumentation & Control Engineer

BOSS Energy has been engaged by a leading early-stage deep tech start-up to help them find a Senior Instrumentation & Control Engineer to join their team in Southern California. In this role you will provide independent instrumentation and system controls support to the business at both R&D pilot systems as well as overall plant operation.

Responsibilities:

Design electrical controls and power distribution systems, write and test PLC and HMI programs, evaluate control hardware and systems.

Program, test, and troubleshoot all control components, including PLCs, safety devices, HMIs, process hardware, and industrial equipment. This includes tasks from initial power-on to debugging, as well as process fine-tuning and validation.

Lead small and medium sized projects including the control systems studies, master plans, and designs consisting of P&IDs and I&C system specifications.

Assist Field Commissioning and Service Technicians with start-up and troubleshooting of systems.

Create/review/modify electrical schematics, drawings, and I/O lists for various electro-mechanical systems to ensure compliance with engineering standards and customer specifications.

Partner and manage 3rd party vendors supporting automation and controls efforts related to pilot projects.

Participate as necessary in equipment tests (including Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT), assembly, installation, and set-up activities to ensure components and systems are conforming to engineering design standards and customer specifications.

Providing field support for equipment installation, startup, troubleshooting, and ongoing maintenance.

Key Competencies:

You hold a Bachelor’s degree – Master’s – in a relevant Engineering discipline (Electrical, ICSS, Automation etc.).

Minimum 4 years’ experience in PLC/HMI design and programming for industrial equipment for machine control, design and development of electrical and software systems.

Proven experience in the integration of automated valves, modulating control valves, flow meters, pressure transmitters, HMI development, variable frequency drives, various industrial sensors, PID loops, and system-level communications with other controllers and subcomponents.

Must have experience using SCADA.

You consider yourself a team player, motivator, and decision maker.

Motivated to succeed in within the Engineered Carbon Removals space.

Fluent written/spoken English.

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