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Senior Instrumentation and Controls Engineer

Greenlight Professional Services · Tewksbury, MA

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Level
Senior
Team
Controls
Degree
Required
Experience asked
10+ years
Industry
Industrial
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The role in 30 seconds

A senior controls role at Greenlight Professional Services (industrial) in Tewksbury, MA. Use a multimeter to support control loop testing and/or troubleshooting of wiring and connectivity issues.

They ask for
10+ years · degree required
Tools it names
PLC, Automation, AutoCAD

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How this role compares

Against 26 other live controls postings in Massachusetts.

Base pay
Not listed in this posting

Typical $90k–$157k, from 12 postings that list pay.

Experience asked
More than usual (10+ vs 5+)

Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.

Skills these teams ask for most

  • ✓ PLC 74%
  • ✓ Automation 74%
  • Robotics 37%
  • Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 26%
  • Root cause 22%

✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.

It asks for 10+ years. If you're close, apply anyway: requirements are a wish list. Talk to someone on the team first.

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How to get in at this plant

Five moves over a week or two. The first one takes ten minutes.

  1. 1

    Pick 2–3 people on the Controls team at Greenlight Professional Services

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  2. 2

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  3. 3

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  5. 5

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This plant: Greenlight Professional Services in Tewksbury

1 other open role at this site.

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requirements

engineering from a systems and process model based viewpoint; an understanding of the relation between system design and system architecture.

  • ✓The ability to understand the concepts and state-of-the-art technology on a range of manufacturing techniques employed by manufacturing engineering clients across a number of sectors from Battery to life science.
  • ✓Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, with multiple and changing priorities while maintaining strong attention to detail and a high level of accuracy.
  • ✓Ability to interpret P&ID's, electrical schematics, loop drawings and general equipment arrangement drawings.
  • ✓Understanding of DCS/PLC physical layer and control hardware.
  • ✓Working knowledge of AutoCAD software.
  • ✓Knowledge of Microsoft Products. (Excel, Word, Access, Project)

Required Job Tasks

  • ✓Project lead with oversight of all Controls and Instrumentation components.
  • ✓Creation of overall system design based on client requirements.
  • ✓Specification of control system equipment and materials.
  • ✓Instrumentation specification support.
  • ✓Review control panel design.
  • ✓Generate scopes of work and procure vendor bids for assigned projects or proposals.
  • ✓Review vendor submittals for compliance with project

requirements

and specifications.

  • ✓Lead and/or execute pre-FAT/FAT on OEM or customer supplied equipment.
  • ✓Lead and/or execute site startup activities (loop checks/commissioning).
  • ✓Generate and manage loop check/commissioning documentation.
  • ✓Generate and manage project punch lists to completion.
  • ✓Troubleshoot traditional analog and discrete signals as well as other communication types (HART, Profibus, DeviceNet, AS-I, Ethernet I/P, Modbus).
  • ✓Use a multimeter to support control loop testing and/or troubleshooting of wiring and connectivity issues.
  • ✓Utilize DCS/PLC platform software to support troubleshooting.
  • ✓Enforce quality control.
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Senior Instrumentation and Controls Engineer

At Greenlight Professional Services, our mission is to help you uncover job opportunities that align with your career goals and skill set. Our distinctive recruiting approach sets us apart: we blend a deep, personal understanding of our clients with your individual career objectives.

The client is looking for someone with a solid chemical, electrical or computer engineering background and 5 to 10 years of relevant process automation experience. The successful candidate will act as a project lead supervising, and contributing to, all aspects of controls system design, instrument specification, programming, purchasing, installation and start-up. You will work closely with fellow team members to create and deliver a successful project.

Ideal Candidate Will Have

  • •Bachelor's Degree in chemical, electrical or computer engineering.
  • •Minimum of 5 years of experience in process automation.
  • •The ability to deal with challenges thrown up by complex engineering projects and have the people and time management skills to overcome them.
  • •The practical knowledge of design and

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