Engineer- Control Programming in Siemens

Job Description

Role Department : Engineer Project/Controls Programming

Reports To : Manager

Description of Role:

To contribute to automating the customer's warehouse/material handling operations by means of Industrial Control system configurations & developments as per the solutions designed, within the scheduled time and cost budget, adhering to quality norms and to enhance customer satisfaction by ensuring reliability, consistency and safety.

Technical Skills Required

Experience in SCADA/HMI & PLC development for Warehouse automation, packaging or equivalent automated conveyor/material handling controls

PLC Programming and troubleshooting using Siemens TIA V15-V19, Simatic Manager using LAD, FBD, SCL, STL

VFD and Servo Drives interfacing with PLC on communication protocols

Experience in interfacing field devices viz Barcode Scanners, Encoders, 3 rd party PLC integration

Experience on Safety PLCs programming

Industrial Networking Experience (Ethernet, Profinet etc)

Experience in using Industrial Communication Protocols (Profinet, Profibus OPC UA/DA etc)

Behavioral Skills Required

Logical thinking approach towards problem-solving

Delivers sustainable results, stays focused even in challenging situations, and overcomes obstacles

Effectively communicate and partner with teammates and cross-functional teams

Efficient time management and organization skills

Flexible to adapt to same-day and next-day changes to project scope and location

A commitment to engineering excellence & knowledge of the latest technologies

Open to travel from short to long duration for commissioning of the systems within India and overseas as may be required

Job Responsibilities

Requirement Gathering Capture & understand project requirements by interacting with advanced engineering team and other disciplines.

Actively participate in the allocated projects discussion to understand the scope of work and the requirements related to development.

Visit commissioned site for understanding the As Commissioned implementation vs designed and new site for due diligence (studies the site conditions, gap analysis) wherever required.

Go through the lessons learnt report (from prior projects) and evaluate if those lessons are applicable then to be incorporated in the current project(s).

Interface Development

Configure the project in the engineering station, develop HMI/SCADA graphics statics, configure tags, develop dynamic objects, faceplates, scripts

Configure alarms, trends, tag logging, users, and security

Develop the sequence of operations and other required technical documents

Secure customer approvals on design, templates, graphics, operation philosophy/Sop

Maintain the project backup using version control (version dog) at a central location 

Control Logic Development

Configure the project in the engineering station and develop the PLC Logic

Provide the necessary information to enable HMI/SCADA development

Develop interface with WCS/WES, 3rd Party

Develop the sequence of operations and other required technical documents

Participate in the Functional Acceptance Test (FAT) and close the snag points within the acceptable TAT

Secure customer approvals on design, templates, operational philosophy/Sop

Maintain the project backup using version control (version dog) at a central location

Change Management

Participate in review meetings and identify / understand any change in customer requirements, project scope etc that is likely to impact development.

Discuss with project manager / PMO and document the impact of the proposed changes to project timeline and cost.

5 Site Support & Monitoring

Create SoP for users (i.e. Addverb site engineers, Addverbs after sales engineers and customers engineers)

Participate in the Site Acceptance Test (SAT) and close the SAT snag points

Provide the handover and detail briefing to execution / implementation team, enable them for implementation

Remote support to site team during installation and commissioning

Maintain list of issues, the containment & corrective action and the resolution time