AC Controls is looking for an Engineering Manager to provide technical leadership for systems integration projects, ensuring the delivery of safe, reliable, and maintainable combustion and process control systems that meet customer specifications and safety codes.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with at least two of the following: Allen-Bradley CompactLogix or ControlLogix, Honeywell HC900, and Honeywell ControlEdge.
- Experience with ICONICS, and Red Lion Crimson.
- Proficiency in ladder logic and at least one function block or structured text.
- Demonstrated experience commissioning combustion or high-temperature process systems, including interlocks, permissives, purge, light-off, and flame supervision.
- Ability to read and produce P&IDs, electrical schematics, and network diagrams.
- Familiarity with burner management and combustion codes and practices such as NFPA 85 and NFPA 86, and functional safety concepts aligned to ISA 84 or IEC 61511.
- Instrument specification and sizing for pressure, temperature, flow, and final control elements in natural gas and fuel oil services.
Responsibilities
- Translate PFDs and P&IDs into control architecture, panel layouts, network topology, and I/O allocation.
- Select and specify instrumentation and final control elements, including pressure and temperature transmitters, flow meters, and control valves, in coordination with mechanical and electrical disciplines.
- Develop PLC, safety, and logic applications for BMS and combustion control using Honeywell HC900, Honeywell ControlEdge, and Allen-Bradley platforms.
- Configure SCADA and HMI applications in ICONICS, and Red Lion Crimson.
- Create control narratives, cause-and-effect matrices, I/O lists, alarm philosophy, and interlock logic for single burner boilers, retrofit firetube and watertube units, and single burner process heat systems.
- Execute I/O checkout, loop tuning, FAT, SAT, startup, and site commissioning.
- Provide remote and on-site troubleshooting, tuning, warranty support, and lifecycle improvements on delivered systems.
Other
- Serves as the technical lead for systems integration projects.
- Defines the overall design solution and control strategy, directs designers on drawing production, and guides programmers on logic implementation.
- Provides day-to-day technical direction across design and programming to deliver safe, reliable, and maintainable systems that meet customer specifications and applicable safety codes.
- Coordinate with Project Managers on schedules, risks, and scope.
- Support proposals with concepts, estimates, and technical clarifications.
