Industrial Controls Specialist (ICS) Specialist

Company Overview
World Wide Technology Holding Co, LLC (WWT) is a privately held global technology integrator and supply chain solutions provider. Through our culture of innovation, we inspire, build and deliver business results, from idea to outcome.
Based in St. Louis, WWT works closely with industry leaders such as Cisco, VMware, NetApp, Dell EMC, HPE and several others, but also include emerging tech players. WWT employs more than 7,000 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 ranks Glassdoors Best Places to Work and has been on Fortune s 100 Best Companies to Work For list 10 years in a row!
World Wide Technology Holding Co, LLC. (WWT) has an opportunity available for an Industrial Controls Specialist to support our client in Las Vegas, NV.
Position: Industrial Controls Specialist

Location: Las Vegas, NV Duration: 6 Months Contract To Hire 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.

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