"PLC Engineer"

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The National Synchrotron Light Source is a state-of-the-art, medium-energy (3-billion-electron-volt, or GeV) electron storage ring that produces x-rays up to 10,000 times brighter than the NSLS. The mission of the National Synchrotron Light Source is to provide extremely bright x-rays for basic and applied research in biology and medicine, materials and chemical sciences, geosciences and environmental sciences, and nanoscience. To support this program, the NSLSII must design, fabricate, assemble, test, install, and operate unique research equipment to generate, transport, transfer, accelerate and focus electron and X-ray beams. This includes a combination of custom designed and built parts and vendor produced components developed by a collaboration of the NSLSII scientific, engineering, and technical staff. The NSLSII supports an international user community of over 2,200 researchers from 400 universities. The NSLSII performs all these functions in an environmentally responsible and safe manner, under a rigorous conduct of operations approach.

Position Description

NSLS-II Electrical Engineering Safety Systems Group has an opening for a Controls Engineering position. Reporting to the Safety Systems subgroup leader, the candidate will perform duties of an Engineer for the maintenance, upgrade, and testing of PLC-based control systems in support of NSLS-II accelerator and beamline operations. This position will require close interaction with technicians, engineers and scientific staff. The emphasis will be PLC programming and development to support electrical, equipment protection, vacuum and mechanical utility subsystems.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide engineering support for PLC-based subsystems
• Perform and document control system testing
• Review reports and test results
• Design and develop components
• Ensure all equipment is properly maintained
• Troubleshoot issues with controls systems
• Perform and maintain an inventory of all control systems
• Interface with technical experts from other groups to facilitate operations
• Work with other engineers and technicians to achieve group goals
• Maintain and implement safety practices and procedures applicable to daily activities
• Plan projects and generate estimates for forementioned systems

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related engineering field
• Programming experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated analytical skills
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills
• Ability to work from schematics, diagrams, written procedures, and spreadsheets
• Hands-on troubleshooting skills
• Ability to work well in a team environment

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related engineering field
• 1-3 years experience with PLC programming
• Controls engineer experience
• Ladder Logic, Structured Text, Function Block, Linux programming
• Allen Bradley, Siemens, or Automated Logic Controls PLC experience
• Familiarity with revision control
• Experience with 10 to 100 Hp motor drives
• Mechanical utility systems experience, including PID control temperature control
• CS Studio, EPICS and IOC programming experience

Environmental, Health & Safety Requirements:

• May be required to walk up to 0.5 miles & climb stairs to access equipment
• May be required to lift 30 lbs.
• May be required to climb ladders for equipment inspection
• May be required to occasionally work off-hours, nights and/or weekends to support mission critical projects

Other Information:

This is an onsite position. Brookhaven National Laboratory is committed to providing fair, equitable and competitive compensation. The full salary range for this position is $77,500 - $100,000/ year. Salary offers will be commensurate with the final candidate's qualification, education and experience and considered with the internal peer group. Brookhaven National Laboratory requires all non-badged personnel including visitors to produce a REAL-ID or REAL-ID compliant documentation to access Brookhaven National Laboratory - view more information at www.bnl.gov/real-id. This is due to nationwide identification requirements for federal site access as required by the federal REAL ID Act.

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