Senior Project Engineer

ABB•Houston, TX

13d•Hybrid

About The Position

This position reports to the Engineering Manager. ABB Inc. is offering Senior Project Engineer positions in Houston, Texas. The role involves shaping and delivering solutions, utilizing customer feedback to drive improvements for medium to large complex projects. Responsibilities include resolving technical issues both remotely and at customer sites in the US and abroad. The engineer will assist Project Managers with claims, customer specifications, safety standards, and technical details, costs, and deliverables for sales proposals. The role requires executing cost-effective Distributed Control System project deliverables on time in accordance with specifications, standards, and safety requirements. This includes designing, testing, and commissioning Automation Enclosures, Control Logic, and Human Machine Interfaces with ABB or 3rd party Control Systems. The engineer will also create and deliver work plans, budgets, and risk assessments, develop, select, and apply standard techniques, procedures, and tools, report inefficiencies, and identify improvement opportunities.

Requirements

Requires a bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and 8 years of experience working on projects involving Distributed Control Systems.
Must have 5 years of experience in working in the Oil, Gas, and Chemical Industries.
Must have 5 years of experience in Programming Distributed Control Systems (DCS) and HMI (Human-Machine Interface).
Must have 5 years of experience in Following Functional Safety standards and processes.
Must have 5 years of experience in Utilizing the following Industry standard protocols: Modbus, OPC, and Profibus.
Must have 5 years of experience in Utilizing control logic programming based on P&ID and scripting, structured text, and function blocks control narratives.
Must have 5 years of experience in Designing Control system hardware panels (controllers, I/Os, and switches).
Must have 5 years of experience in Utilizing ethernet networking for industrial automation solutions.
Must have 5 years of experience in Leading projects and coordinating between vendors, customers, and project management.
Must have 5 years of experience in Testing and commissioning Distributed Control Systems.
Must have 5 years of experience in Performing factory acceptance testing and site acceptance testing.
Must have 5 years of experience in Working with simulation and sequence configuration.

Responsibilities

Shape and deliver solutions and utilize customer feedback to drive delivery of improvements for medium to large complex projects.
Resolve technical issues both remotely and at customer sites in US and abroad.
Assist Project Managers with claims, customer specifications and safety standards, as well as technical details, costs, and deliverables for sales proposals.
Execute cost effective Distributed Control System project deliverables on time in accordance with specifications, standards, and safety requirements.
Design, test and commission Automation Enclosures, Control Logic and Human Machine Interfaces with ABB or 3rd party Control System.
Create and deliver work plans, budgets, and risk assessments.
Develop, select, and apply standard techniques, procedures and tools.
Report inefficiencies and identify improvement opportunities.
Leading projects and coordinating between vendors, customers, and project management.
Testing and commissioning Distributed Control Systems.
Performing factory acceptance testing and site acceptance testing.
Working with simulation and sequence configuration.

Benefits

Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan.
Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
Vision benefit
Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
Voluntary life and AD&D – 100% employee paid up to maximums
Short Term Disability – up to 26 weeks – Company paid
Long Term Disability – 60% of pay – Company paid. Ability to “buy-up” to 66 2/3% of pay.
Supplemental benefits – 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance)
Parental Leave – up to 6 weeks
Employee Assistance Program
Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
Employee discount program
401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)
ABB provides 11 paid holidays.
Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.