Industrial Controls Specialist

Overview

On Site
$60 - $90
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - 12 Month(s)

Skills

Industrial Controls
Power Generation
Distributed Control Systems
software
Operational
Mark VIe

Job Details

Worldwide Technology is looking for a Industrial Controls Specialist. This role is part of WWT’s Strategic Resourcing services and is a contract role. The candidate will be supporting a WWT customer and will be employed by one of WWT’s preferred partners. The partner will provide full compensation and benefit information prior to employment with the partner. 

Company Overview:
Based in St. Louis, WWT works closely with industry leaders such as Cisco, HPE, Dell EMC, NetApp, VMware, Intel, AWS, Microsoft, and F5, focusing on three market segments: Fortune 500 companies, service providers and the public sector. WWT employs more than 5,400 people and operates in more than 2+ million square feet of state-of-the-art warehousing, distribution and integration space strategically located throughout the world. WWT is proud to announce that it has been named on the FORTUNE "100 Best Places to Work For®" list for the eighth consecutive year and was awarded for multiple categories on Glassdoor's 2019 Employees' Choice Awards, honoring the Best Places to Work.

Title: Industrial Controls Specialist

Location: Onsite - Las Vegas, NV, USA

Duration/Type of Job: 6-12+ months

Rate/Salary: A reasonable estimate of the current pay range for this position is $60 to $90 hourly (Rate range is on C2C basis). Actual pay will be based on a variety of factors, including shift, location, experience, skill set, performance, licensure and certification, and business needs, and will be set by your employer. The range for this position in other geographic locations may differ. Certain positions may also be eligible for variable incentive compensation, such as bonuses or commissions, that is not included in base pay.  

Job Summary:
opportunity available for an Industrial Controls Specialist to support our client in Las Vegas, NV.
Responsibilities/Job Duties/Job Description/Qualifications:
This position is aligned to the Generation side of the business. Experience with Industrial Control Systems (ICS), Distributed Control Systems (DCSes), Emerson Ovation, GE Mark VIe, etc, will be critical for this role.
The key skills for this resource will be:

  • Experience working in a Power Generation facility
  • VMWare vSphere, including vSAN, ESXi, and vCenter is nice to have but not required
  • Server management (hardware and software)
  • Operating Systems, deployment, maintenance, upgrades, and patching
  • Basic scripting skills
  • Experience with software supporting patching, antivirus management, listing, listing, configuration management, network and system monitoring, or security and event monitoring

Basic Purpose

  • Provides engineering design and support services for the electronics and software (Operational Technology) required to control and manage power generation, automatic generation control and real-time energy management.
  • Conceives, develops and implements unique solutions to operational technology problems.
  • Conceives, develops and advocates strategies for managing obsolescence, replacements and upgrades.
  • Furnishes technical direction and project support to plant or control center staff on operational technology matters. Provides leadership and mentoring for junior engineering staff.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Provides control system software and hardware support to ensure safe, optimal and reliable operations.
  • Works with Operations and corporate technical staff for troubleshooting, determining solutions, and supporting corrective actions for instrumentation and programming logic issues.
  • Works with Operations to develop and implement control system logic, display modifications and custom functions.
  • Develops Common Information Models for new or modified Generation, Transmission and Distribution elements.
  • Works with the control system software vendors as required for trouble issues that have escalated for product support.
  • Provides control system user account administrations for Operations and Maintenance groups. Coordinates Electrical System Control Center (ESCC) local and site failovers for security patching, software upgrades, and other related maintenance.
  • Determines applicability and completes testing of security and application updates.
  • Assists team members in applying updates.
  • Manages and maintains installed computing infrastructure, including network and network connected devices.
  • Manages and maintains computing infrastructure asset inventory.
  • Provides beginning-to-end technical support for capital and operations and maintenance projects to include development of the business case, scope, budget, and schedule, as well as testing, installation and commissioning.
  • Evaluates and manages vendor and contractor support efforts related with modifications, maintenance and project activities.

This role may require on-location work with WWT customers. Some customers may require WWT employees and contractors coming on-site to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and/or to receive frequent negative COVID-19 testing. 

Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Differently Abled 

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