Senior Project Engineer

Schneider Electric•Chicago, IL

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Schneider Electric is seeking a Senior Project Engineer for a U.S.-based, full-time position. This role involves structuring and implementing process automation for complex requirements, supporting project planning and delivery, developing engineering standards, and reviewing software source code. The engineer will act as a senior client contact, manage change requests, and provide reports to the Team Leader. Responsibilities also include programming PLCs (Rockwell and Siemens), working with database structures, installing and maintaining processes, configuring controllers, and assigning tasks to engineering team members.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
3 years of experience in engineering of batch control systems in food, brewing or dairy industry.
Utilizing Rockwell Automation PLCs, Siemens PLCs and Modicon PLCs to guarantee reliability and process stability with a real time control architecture.
Utilizing Microsoft SQL to setup a digital representation of the customer plant with equipment classes and the definition of required functionalities to be prepared to run customer processes.
Utilizing P&ID and electrical drawings to understand the setup defined for the process execution.
Defining and implementing the most feasible control strategies based on the layout to reach customer demands with respect to quality, efficiency and process safety.
Utilizing ProLeiT S88 process control system functionality to provide standardization and modular repeatability of process functionality.
Utilizing ProLeiT process control systems for the automation of S88 compliant processes.
Creating ProLeiT batch models from process requirements definitions.
Setting up complex structures in database models reflecting customer requirements.

Responsibilities

Structure and implement process automation for highly complex process requirements.
Support project planning and delivery by reviewing client needs, setting overall project strategy, and defining the particulars of a project approach.
Develop templates, engineering standards, and technical frameworks to be used by their teams in the delivery of individual client projects.
Review software source code developed in projects to ensure quality and adherence to set software specifications.
Plan project work based on review of team progress.
Act as the senior point of contact for clients’ management teams throughout project initiation and delivery.
Initiate and documenting change requests, extensions, and similar action items for client projects.
Supply regular written and oral reports to the Team Leader who supervises personnel in our Food, Brewing, and Dairy project teams.
Program PLCs, work with complex PLC project structures for Rockwell and Siemens PLCs involving multiple controllers, work in existing programs, find and resolve error root causes, and create and implement system fixes.
Work with database structures and functionalities for production and archive databases.
Install processes for new process control installations, maintain and support older versions of systems, and upgrade existing installations.
Work with programming standards of different clients and create and maintain these standards in customer specific programs.
Configure and debug Rockwell and Siemens controllers and their respective underlying hardware and field connections in a process environment.
Decide which of the engineering teams’ members will be responsible for carrying out the specific activities necessary for project delivery.