Electrical Senior Project Engineer (San Luis Obispo, CA)

Description

Prepares one-line drawings, equipment layout, schematics, and hazardous area classification drawings for the projects.

Reviews approval drawings, quotes, schedules, specification writing, and equipment selection.

Performs conduit, cable tray, pull box sizing calculations, cable sizing, and voltage drop calculations.

Coordinates with representatives of clients, vendors, material suppliers, and contractors to obtain information and guidance and make appropriate equipment selections.

Performs power system studies such as Short Circuit Analysis, Coordination Studies and Arc Flash Analysis.

Works directly with the project manager on: Designing power systems for industrial, public, and commercial applications using Switchboards, Motor control centers, switchgear, relays, transformers, enclosures, power cables, cable terminations, insulators, surge protection devices, reactive power compensation devices, etc., UPS sizing, electrical panel heat calculations, and lightning calculations based on the NFPA 780.

Programs and troubleshoots Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), including ladder logic, function block, and structured text routines.

Programs and troubleshoots Human Machine Interfaces (HMI), including communication drivers, graphic object development, data historization, alarm management, trending, and reporting.

Prepares control narratives, processes control descriptions, technical specifications, and design drawings.

Design, programming, and implementing network infrastructure for SCADA systems, HMI Servers, virtualization services, network hardware, and fieldbus networks.

Design, programming, and implementing fieldbus network protocols (HART, Modbus, Profibus, Foundation Fieldbus, OPC).

Commissioning of field instruments like E300 starters, VFDs, pressure transmitters, pressure switches, flow switches, flow meters, level transmitters, and float switches.

Requirements

Requires Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or electronics engineering or closely related (foreign equivalent) + 5 years of relevant experience. Requires 1 year experience in Schneider Electric M580 PLC system, Unity Pro, EcoStrucxure Software, Rockwell ControlLogix, CompactLogix PLC., Studio 500 Logix Designer software & SCADA software.

$149344.000/yr, 40 hr./week. Mail resume to Cannon Corp. Attn. HR, 1050 Southwood Dr., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401