What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Controls Engineer position at MidCentral Management Resources, LLC?
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Position Summary:
The Senior Controls Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the control application for an unattended wellhead pressure control product. This role leads system architecture, critical control logic, redundant sensor validation, controller-side alarm management, factory acceptance testing, and commissioning. The Senior Controls Engineer provides ongoing technical ownership, developing new features and implementing field-driven improvements as the product line grows. You will apply the same engineering approach to facility construction engineering and programming across our North Dakota and Texas operations, including production facilities, compression, panel plant builds, and SCADA/HMI systems. Across all of this work, you will write code that other people can maintain, set the standards others build on, and work directly with customers' technical teams.
Essential Functions
Control system development
- Architect, program, and document PLC applications on Schneider Electric and Rockwell Automation platforms.
- Review P&IDs and functional specifications to define I/O requirements and control strategies.
- Implement programs from customer-issued Cause & Effect matrices and functional specifications. Raise contradictions and gaps formally instead of working around them.
- Develop deterministic logic for time critical shutdown and relief functions, and demonstrate that it meets defined response time requirements.
- Build controller-side alarm lifecycle management, including state, acknowledgement, and classification, that stays synchronized across multiple HMIs and a remote SCADA system and recovers cleanly after communication loss.
- Design redundant-sensor validation, fault discrimination, degraded mode operation, and cold-start behavior.
- Implement role based command authority and event journaling, with validation enforced in the controller.
- Integrate field networks and telemetry: EtherNet/IP, Ethernet RIO on fiber rings, Modbus, CANopen, and J1939. Include store-and-forward telemetry to cloud SCADA.
HMI / SCADA
- Develop and maintain HMI and SCADA applications in AVEVA (Wonderware) InTouch and System Platform, FactoryTalk View, and Schneider Electric Vijeo Designer
- Define HMI tag interfaces and coordinate with HMI developers.
Test, commissioning, and support
- Write and run factory acceptance tests (FAT) and site acceptance tests (SAT), including formally specified validation test blocks.
- Support yard testing, field commissioning, and startup in ND and TX.
- Work on-site at customer locations to commission, start up, and troubleshoot systems alongside customer operations teams and Expanse field crews
- Prepare engineering documentation and handover packages, train customer personnel, and recommend spare parts.
- Take part directly in customer technical working sessions.
Engineering standards
- Establish and maintain programming standards, code structure, and documentation across the division.
- Coordinate with Expanse’s panel engineering team and panel plants in both regions on I/O and design requirements.
- Evaluate new and alternate products and technologies and contribute to new product development.
- Mentor automation technicians and apprentices.