PLC / Automation Engineer
PLC / Automation Engineer
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Brookhaven National Laboratory is committed to employee success and we believe that a comprehensive employee benefits program is an important and meaningful part of the compensation employees receive. Review more information at BNL Benefits Program
The National Synchrotron Light Source is a stateoftheart mediumenergy (3 GeV) electron storage ring that produces xrays up to 10000 times brighter than the NSLS. The mission of the National Synchrotron Light Source is to provide extremely bright xrays for basic and applied research in biology and medicine materials and chemical sciences geosciences and environmental sciences and nanoscience. To support this program the NSLSII must design fabricate assemble test install and operate unique research equipment to generate transport transfer accelerate and focus electron and Xray includes a combination of custom designed and built parts and vendor produced components developed by a collaboration of the NSLSII scientific engineering and technical staff. As many of these instruments are of high value a Beamline Equipment Protection System (EPS) is implemented to protect these with controls interlocks to ensure robust operations. The NSLSII supports an international user community of over 2200 researchers from 400 universities. The NSLSII performs all these functions in an environmentally responsible and safe manner under a rigorous conduct of operations approach.
Position Description
NSLSII Data Science and System Integration Engineering and Equipment Group has an opening for PLC / Automation Engineer. Reporting to the Engineering and Equipment group leader the candidate will be responsible for performing development maintenance upgrade and testing of PLCbased and other equipment projection interlock controls. This position will require close interaction with technicians engineers and scientific staff. The Engineer will be responsible for gathering and delivering on functional and technical requirements from sensors and actuators to wiring logic and programming. Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Energy and Photon Sciences Directorate are committed to your success. We offer a supportive work environment and the resources necessary for you to succeed.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Maintain knowledge and materials on hand to address equipment protection development and support needs for 30plus beamline instruments
Gather and document comprehensive requirements and versioncontrolled designs for equipment protection additions and changes
Develop and work to schedules and estimates of effort and materials costs for equipment protection development installation and testing
Regularly communicate to stakeholders and management regarding all beamline equipment protection efforts including development and support
Establish documentation and training enabling troubleshooting and maintenance of equipment protection components by a range of technical staff
Collaborate closely with controls experts to ensure a robust user experience
Interface with technical experts from other groups to maximize facility reliability
Work with other engineers and technicians to achieve team goals
Maintain safety practices and procedures applicable to daily activities
Required Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or related engineering field
3 years experience with automation and controls using PLCs
Comprehensive understanding of equipment interlock logic wiring sensors and actuators. Comfortable working from schematics diagrams written procedures and spreadsheets. Solid experience with logic design programming and wiring design. Handson troubleshooting skills and analytical problemsolving abilities with both software and hardware
Ability to help define and execute technically complex projects of various size by understanding scope and exit criteria providing effort estimates maintaining work schedules and managing a working inventory of needed hardware
Able to deliver robust operational capabilities by maintaining documented standards and version control for program code and wiring design. Capable of producing designs processes test procedures and training
Strong written and verbal communication skills. Ability to work well in a team environment with people who have a range of interests and abilities
Preferred Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering or related engineering field
7 years experience with automation and controls using PLCs
Experience with PLC programming methods (e.g. Ladder Logic Structured Text Function Block) particularly as implemented on Allen Bradley or similar commercial PLC platforms
Experience with software integration of PLCs particularly using EPICS Control System Studio or github
Ability to deliver robust and modern equipment protection solutions which can meet rapidly changing requirements
Environmental Health & Safety Requirements:
May be required to walk up to 0.5 miles & climb stairs to access equipment
May be required to climb ladders for equipment inspection
May be required to occasionally work offhours nights and/or weekends to support mission critical projects
Brookhaven Laboratory is committed to providing fair equitable and competitive compensation. This is a multilevel role and the full salary range for this position is $92000.00 $130000.00 / year. You will be placed at the level and salary commensurate with your experience. Salary offers will be commensurate with the final candidates qualification education and experience and considered with the internal peer group.
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About Us
Brookhaven National Laboratory () delivers discovery science and transformative technology to power and secure the nations future. Brookhaven Lab is a multidisciplinary laboratory with seven Nobel Prizewinning discoveries 37 R&D 100 Awards and more than 70 years of pioneering research. The Lab is primarily supported by the U.S. Department of Energys (DOE) Office of Science. Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA) operates and manages the Laboratory for DOE. BSA is a partnership between Battelle and The Research Foundation for the State University of New York on behalf of Stony Brook University. BSA salutes our veterans and active military members with careers that leverage the skills and unique experience they gained while serving our country learn more at BNL Opportunities for Veterans at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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