Senior Automation Engineer
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SENIOR AUTOMATION ENGINEER Founded in 1975, Salas O'Brien is an employee-owned engineering and professional services firm focused on achieving impact for our clients, our team, and the world. We know that tomorrow's requirements are today's opportunities, and we are here to design lasting solutions for pressing challenges. We work across a variety of industries providing integrated engineering and consulting services. Salas O'Brien's Process and Manufacturing (P&M) business unit engineers provide transformative solutions for industrial processes from concept to implementation. As part of 'one' Salas O'Brien, a multi-disciplinary engineering and architecture firm, the P&M business unit ensures a seamless, comprehensive service experience through a local everywhere approach. We integrate specialized expertise across a spectrum of markets, including: • Agribusiness • Chemical/Petrochemical • Consumer Products • Food and Beverage • Pharmaceutical • Power & Utilities • Process & Manufacturing We have dedicated team members who guide our customers through unique business needs, from start-up and commissioning to design, construction, and connecting facilities through automation and digital solutions. We are also committed to sustainability, integrating eco-friendly practices into our designs to optimize resource efficiency and environmental impact. Job Summary: The Senior Automation Engineer is responsible to develop, create, test, and modify customized software applications across a variety of control platforms individually or as part of a team. Activities include analyzing user needs, estimating potential costs, and developing software application solutions. Also includes customizing software applications for client use with the aim of optimizing operation efficiency. May analyze and design databases within an application area, working individually or coordinating database development as part of a team. Job Responsibilities: • Develop PLC and HMI system programs as well as hardware designs for clients in manufacturing, processing and utilities facilities. • Serve as project manager to ensure communication and execution of work is within scope, schedule and budget by monitoring project progress, coordinating activities, and resolving issues. • Develop project proposals for multi-discipline projects. • Direct designers in the development of automation installation drawings, data sheets and specifications, to meet customer specifications and applicable codes. • Prepare construction and fabrication contractor bid packages. • Coordinate the quotation, procurement and delivery of automation system components. • Write functional descriptions based on the customer controls requirements. • Initiate, develop and lead factory and/or site acceptance tests. • Lead a team to perform onsite system commissioning and startup support. • Develop and perform operator training. • Maintain schedule for multiple projects, multiple clients, and multiple resources. • Develop and maintain business relationships by interfacing with existing and potential clients. • Be a resource and provide mentoring for junior Automation Engineers. Experience & Education: • Bachelor's degree in engineering or at least 5 years in industrial manufacturing • 3-10 Years' related work experience • US work authorization (Required) Essential Job Functions: The responsibilities listed below are fundamental to the position and must be performed successfully to achieve the key performance objectives of the role. Other responsibilities may be assigned. • Strong knowledge of industrial Automation and control. • Ability to understand and develop Automation specification documents, system architecture drawings, control platform specifications, and project schedules. • Perform onsite software installation, checkout, testing, and customer service including interfacing with customer • Collaborating with management, departments, and customers to identify end-user requirements and specification • Demonstrate excellent organizational skills, including the ability to work effectively and independently in an atmosphere of multiple projects, across multiple products. • Participate in developing engineering estimates, scopes of work, and deliverables for proposed projects. • Proactively identify new business development opportunities with current clients and brings those opportunities forward. • Cross-sell the services provided by other disciplines at Salas O'Brien to clients when appropriate. Preferred Qualifications: • Rockwell Platform (strongly preferred) - Control Logix, PLC5, SLC, FTView SE, FTView ME, PlantPAx • Siemens Platform - Simatic PCS7 • ABB Platform - Freelance, 800xA • Wonderware - InTouch, Archestra • Ignition • Batching • Historian • Ethernet Networking The Physical and Ergonomic Requirements of this position are as follows: • Lifting/carrying: Carrying light loads related to field measurement equipment, and equipment cases weighing 15 lbs. or less. • Dexterity: Ability to type using a keyboard with relative efficiency, ability to make handwritten notes and sketches indoors and outdoors at industrial plants and construction sites at any time of the year. • Walking/Climbing: Ability to use multi-level stair towers and rung ladders unassisted. • Visual Acuity: Ability to discern single-line and 3-dimensional computer images representing objects being designed or drafted. • Hearing: Ability to hear safety alarms and signals while wearing hearing protection. • Physical exertion: Ability to walk up to one mile on industrial plants and construction sites outdoors at any time of the year. Ability to work in protective clothing which may elevate body temperatures by several degrees Fahrenheit for periods of up to 15 minutes without a break. • Breathing: Ability to work while wearing a respirator or self-contained breathing apparatus. Location: Position is based in Cincinnati, OH. Work-From-Home (WFH) available after an onboarding period. Reliable commute required. Travel: The nature of our business requires travel. 30% minimum travel, understanding in some circumstances a higher percentage deployment may be required for the execution of the business. Salas O'Brien is committed to keep business travel to a reasonable nature for the execution of the business. Equal Opportunity Employment Statement: Salas O'Brien provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state/provincial, or local laws. Salas O'Brien will accommodate the disability-related needs of applicants as required by law.