Control Systems Engineer

Overview:

As a RoviSys employee, you will use the latest technologies as we provide innovative solutions for our clients. You will design, implement, and configure automation systems/software, and/or write custom software. We support our customers onsite and from our offices, located throughout North America. We use new and exciting technology to improve our clients’ sustainability, profitability, efficiency and overall success!

Responsibilities:

RoviSys offers a broad opportunity to grow your career with any of the following duties:

• Design and develop automation systems
• Design and develop electrical control systems that will interface with process manufacturing equipment and sensors
• Architect software solutions using the appropriate technologies from database to AI to User Interface tools.
• Provide our clients with real time, actionable information about their process
• Develop quality code in accordance with established RoviSys and client standards
• Work in team environment with engineers and designers from RoviSys, partners and clients
• Grow into position leading a team of engineers and technicians to provide automation and information solutions.

Below are the 4 career paths we offer.

Systems:

• Success Factors:
  • Understanding of Process or Manufacturing Systems
  • Co-op Experience
  • Electrical or Process Knowledge
• Technologies Used:
  • DCS, PLCs, Rockwell, Siemens, Emerson, Schneider, Inductive, Aveva
• Duties:
  • Design and develop automation systems
  • Travel to client plants to assess and document existing systems and connected equipment
  • Use P&ID, Equipment Lists, I/O Lists and Process Descriptions to define control schemes for clients.
  • Network customer systems, Controllers, HMI PC's, Field mounted instruments and Process Skids to provide fully integrated control systems

Information Systems:

• Success Factors:
  • Ability to understand Information System architectures
• Technologies Used:
  • Relational Databases and Historians (MS SQL Server, Oracle, OSIsoft, etc.)
  • Python, VBA/VBscript/C# syntax, Linux shell scription (Bash,make), PowerShell scripting
• Duties:
  • Design and implement industry software applications to aggregate manufacturing systems information and provide reports to support business decisions
  • Manually configure technical solutions and identify optimization opportunities by leveraging scripting and automation to increase process efficiency
  • Install and commission systems connected to the plant floor devices onsite and support operations personnel through effective use and maintenance of the deployed solutions
  • Scripting and light programming

Industrial IT:

• Success Factors:
  • Passion for networking
  • Virtualization
  • Cybersecurity in a manufacturing or office setting
• Technologies Used:
  • Virtualization, Networking
  • Cybersecurity, Windows, Wireless
• Duties:
  • Map and Design Network Architectures
  • Configure and Test Infrastructure components
  • Install and Commission equipment at customer sites, per design
  • Communicate with customer and project team to define needs and design/implement solutions

Software:

• Success Factors:
  • Programming experience in an Object-Oriented Language and Web Technologies
• Technologies Used:
  • C++, C#, VB, ASP.NET
  • JavaScript, CSS, HTML
  • Web frameworks
• Duties:
  • Design and implement industry software applications to aggregate manufacturing systems
  • Develop quality code in accordance with established RoviSys and client standards
  • Manually configure technical solutions and identify optimization opportunities
  • Install and commission systems connected to the plant floor devices at customer sites and support operations personnel

Qualifications:

• Preferred: Degree in a Technical Field, related to Engineering, Systems, or Software
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• Ability to multi-task and handle multiple concurrent projects
• Passionate about problem solving and developing solutions
• Demonstrated written and oral communication skills

Pertinent Experience:

• Relevant Co-op experience
• Manufacturing process knowledge
• Programmable Logic Controller and Distributed Control System experience
• Well-versed with web development technologies (JavaScript, CSS, HTML, .NET, etc)
• Design and Implementation of Relational/Document Databases and Historians (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle)