Posted 7 months ago
Control Engineer 1
CharlotteOn-siteFull-time
AI Summary
Designs, develops, installs, and maintains control equipment for monitoring and controlling systems, machinery, and processes in industries such as industrial controls, water/wastewater, power, and transportation.
About this role
Overview
About M.C. Dean
M.C. Dean is Building Intelligence. We design, build, operate, and maintain cyber-physical solutions for the nation’s most mission-critical facilities, secure environments, complex infrastructure, and global enterprises. With over 7,000 employees, our capabilities span electrical, electronic security, telecommunications, life safety, automation and controls, audiovisual, and IT systems. Headquarters in Tysons, Virginia, M.C. Dean delivers resilient, secure, and innovative power and technology solutions through engineering expertise and smart systems integration.
Why Join Us?
Our people are passionate about engineering innovation that improves lives and drives impactful change. Guided by our core values—agility, expertise, and trust—we foster a collaborative and forward-thinking work environment. At M.C. Dean, we are committed to building the next generation of technical leaders in electrical, engineering, and cybersecurity industries.
Controls Engineers 1 are responsible for designing, developing, installing, and maintaining equipment used to monitor and control systems, machinery and processes. Controls Engineers work in various industries including industrial controls, water / wastewater, power controls and protection, and transportation systems. They're technical experts in areas such as advanced process control, instrumentation, distributed control systems, PLCs, and SCADA systems. Controls engineers use these skills to design and implement solutions to our customer's complex needs.
Responsibilities
Design / Engineering
- Originates design documents for small projects and in support of large programs
- Narrative Design Documents
- Requirements Analysis
- Subsystem Designs (CAD / Panels / Layouts / Wiring / SCADA Screens / Hardware / Communications)
- Preparation of Specifications
- Perform QA/QC and technical reviews of designs
- Plans and Design Procedures and Fixtures for Integrated Systems Factory Testing
- Comment Resolution
- Testing / Troubleshooting / Deployment / Commissioning
- Author testing / commissioning procedures
- Preparation of test reports
- Originates test procedures
- Commissioning of deployed systems
- Development of test fixtures and simulation devices
- Perform Factory and Field Testing
- Maintenance
- Perform troubleshooting on service calls to existing and legacy system operators
- Perform hardware / software upgrades and replacements on existing systems
Qualifications
Education / Experience
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, automation engineering or related field with 0+ years of experience
Abilities
- Exposure to computer screens for an extended period of time.
- Sitting for extended periods of time.
- Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction.
- Have finger dexterity in order to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hands or arms, for example, using a keyboard.
- Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Identify and understand the speech of another person.
Skills
Advanced Process ControlCADCommissioningDCSFactory TestingHardware UpgradesInstrumentationPanel DesignPLCQA/QCSCADASoftware UpgradesSpecificationsTroubleshootingWiring
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