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Role: IoT Engineer
Location: Lexington KY (or) Louisville KY (or) Cincinnati OH (or) Princeton IN (Must be local at one of these locations 12 times a month travel onsite)
Experience: 10 Years
Duration: Long term
Client: Hitachi
Job Description:
This role is capable of delivering ISA95 Level 0/1 and IoT related equipment/process animation automation/control and all ancillary processes/systems required for industrial equipment/process automation for industrial customers. Project management and delivery is an inherent part of this role type ensuring all asdesigned systems are deployed at the right price quality and schedule for the customer.
This role spans analysis architecture development deployment and management role types.
This role typically resides in the customers Engineering/Operational Technology (OT) and/or Maintenance organization.
This role is sometimes referred to as an Automation Engineering or Controls Engineer.
Capabilities:
Technical Expertise Deep understanding of edge device/system concepts including realtime data processing and IoT device integration best practices.
Knowledge of edge hardware/software devices/systems including PLC/PAC I/O sensors Network Layer2 switches communication protocols etc. (ISA95 Level 01).
Development and deployment of industrial application/system user interfaces business logic database interfaces device interfaces and/or related analytics.
Documentation
Ability to create clear concise and detailed job instruction sheets that can be easily understood by technical and nontechnical personnel.
Skills in technical writing and documentation with an emphasis on instructional materials for hardware and software operations.
Experience with diagrammatic representations of network setups and data flow using industry standard tools (e.g. Microsoft Visio Lucid etc.)
Communication & Training
Strong verbal and written communication skills to interact effectively with team members and to produce understandable instructional content.
Ability to conduct training sessions or workshops for staff to familiarize them with new devices and processes.
Collaboration & Teamwork
Ability to work closely with other team members including IoT engineers production engineering and maintenance.
Industry Knowledge
Knowledge of common industry best practices and standards.
Understanding of compliance and security issues related to the use of edge technologies in industrial settings.
Project Management
Industrial project and solution management design deployment and maintenance.
Project oversight reporting requirements analysis estimating scoping and proposal building and customer explanation.
Manage 3rd party/external suppliers activities and deliverables.
Delivery across 35 different customers (internal and/or external).
Education/Training
REQUIRED: BSEE/BSME (ABET accredited)
OPTIONAL: 1year post BS or workstudy experience in automation and control design. Professional Engineer (PE) registration not required but desirable.
Once a new person is onboarded in the customers organization there is a set of internal customer specific education that needs to take place upfront and ongoing as follows:
Engineering standards
Engineering technology directions
Engineering reporting practices
Overall organization structure and roles/responsibilities
Procurement practices
Document Management practices
Safety practices
Supplier/Vendor practices
NOTE: The customer organization will typically have a technical school to which all Maintenance and/or Engineering personnel attend for 14 weeks to learn specifics of the customers operations and supporting automation and control systems. These types of internal training programs are highly recommended also.
Skill Levels:
The following table outlines all related skill sets required of this role with relative (1novice 10expert) experience/capability levels for each skill set.
Skill Capability/Experience Level (1novice 10expert) Comments
Engineering Fundamentals
Electrical Engineering Principles 9 Could be a Mechanical Engineer also.
Mechanical Engineering Principles 9 Could be a Mechanical Engineer also.
RootCause Analysis (RCA) 10
Process Engineering
ISA95 Level 0 10
ISA95 Level 1 10
ISA95 Level 2 6
ISA95 Level 3 3
ISA95 Level 4 3
Equipment/Machine 9
Automation and Control Systems 10
Electrical Panels 10
Motor Control 10
Power Control 10
Manufacturing
Production Control 10
Product Flow/Routing 8 Depends on process context.
Product Traceability 8 Depends on process context.
Inventory/Warehouse Control/Execution/Management 8 Depends on process context.
Material Handling 8 Depends on process context.
Product Quality/Laboratory 8 Depends on process context.
Safety Systems 10 Always required.
Network
OSI Layer 17 Design/Development/Deployment 4 OSI model layers.
Grades/Levels:
Each role has the following job grade/level progression relative to improved capabilities and experience shown in the following table. See the appendix for more details.
Job Grade/Level Years of Experience Broader Industry Experience Project Size Experience Project Content Experience
Intern
Full Time