Control Engineer 1, Virginia

Overview:
Your Future at M.C. Dean

We're seeking people driven to excellence and inspired to have a meaningful impact powering, automating, integrating, and securing the world’s most critical infrastructure and facilities. This translates into fulfilling opportunities for employees driven to excel in a meaningful career. As an employee at M.C. Dean, you will join forces with more than 5,800 professionals who engineer and deploy automated, secure and resilient power and technology systems; and deliver the management platforms essential for long-term system sustainability. Together, we transform the way complex, large-scale systems are designed, delivered, and sustained–enhancing client outcomes, improving lives, and changing the world for the better.

 

Controls Engineers 1 are responsible for designing, developing, installing, and maintaining equipment used to monitor and control systems, machinery and processes. Controls Engineers work in various industries including industrial controls, water / wastewater, power controls and protection, and transportation systems. They're technical experts in areas such as advanced process control, instrumentation, distributed control systems, PLCs, and SCADA systems. Controls engineers use these skills to design and implement solutions to our customer's complex needs.

Responsibilities:
Design / Engineering

Originates design documents for small projects and in support of large programsNarrative Design Documents

Requirements Analysis

Subsystem Designs (CAD / Panels / Layouts / Wiring / SCADA Screens / Hardware / Communications)

Preparation of Specifications

Perform QA/QC and technical reviews of designs

Plans and Design Procedures and Fixtures for Integrated Systems Factory Testing

Comment Resolution

Testing / Troubleshooting / Deployment / CommissioningAuthor testing / commissioning procedures

Preparation of test reports

Originates test procedures

Commissioning of deployed systems

Development of test fixtures and simulation devices

Perform Factory and Field Testing

MaintenancePerform troubleshooting on service calls to existing and legacy system operators

Perform hardware / software upgrades and replacements on existing systems

Qualifications:
Education / Experience

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, automation engineering or related field with 0+ years of experience

Abilities

Exposure to computer screens for an extended period of time.

Sitting for extended periods of time.

Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction.

Have finger dexterity in order to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hands or arms, for example, using a keyboard.

Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.

Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

Identify and understand the speech of another person.