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Cameron Dorrough posted on February 14, 2006, 4:41 pm
Norton Consultants Pty Ltd is currently seeking to employ a Control Systems
Engineer with LV Controls and DCS/PLC/SCADA system design and configuration
experience to join our growing team. Based in our office in Melbourne,
Australia, occasional travel to all corners of Australasia and parts of the
Pacific region may be required.
The successful candidate should meet the following requirements:
* Bachelor of Engineering degree (Electrical) and qualifications acceptable
for Graduate entry to the Institution of Engineers, Australia (IEAust).
* Minimum 2 years experience in an industrial environment.
* Resident in, or hold permits to live and work in, Australia.
* Be a self-motivated team player.
* Be experienced with trouble-shooting, configuring and programming of DCS,
PLC and SCADA hardware and software (CitectSCADA an advantage).
* Have an above-average understanding of control system design strategies.
* Able to design and trouble-shoot industrial communication systems.
* Have a good working knowledge of low-voltage electrical control and
distribution systems.
This position would ideally suit a Graduate Electrical Engineer with an
interest in Aviation and Aircraft Refuelling systems, currently working for
a major petrochemical or heavy industry company and wishing to expand
his/her horizons across a variety of clients and industries both large and
small. A salary package of up to A$75,000 will be negotiated with the
successful candidate.
"It's not a job. It's an adventure." - Mark Walsh (this NG)
If you, or anyone you know, may be interested in this position, please send
a brief resume and contact details to me at the address below.
Thanks and regards,
Cameron Dorrough
Director
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Norton Consultants Pty Ltd
Email: cdorrough(at)rmna.com.au
Web: www.nortonconsultants.com
Tim Wescott posted on
Re: Job Opportunity: Control Systems Engineer {final call}
Cameron Dorrough wrote:
I can (probably) do that
I doubt that you'll consider spraying Gel Coat at my Dad's fiberglass
shop to count.
Others may disagree with the 'team player' part, but sure!
What's 'SCADA' again?
I wrote the book (well at least _a_ book, and it won't hit the presses
for another month so I can't say anything about favorable reviews).
I've written comm software for various 8-, 16- and 32-bit
microcontrollers, does that count?
You probably mean in an industrial setting, not in a 4-box airborne
imaging system, don't you?
That's _all_? No wonder you have to look so hard.
All in all I suspect I'm better qualified for designing PCS's and DCS's,
with their accompanying auto-tune software, than I am for speccing
industrial control systems. This has more to do with the fact that all
my experience pertains to itty bitty clean things (well, except for the
diesel speed control) than it does to any root knowledge, I'm sure.
But thanks for asking.
Geez I'm in a weird mood today...
--
Tim Wescott
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Re: Job Opportunity: Control Systems Engineer {final call}
Hey, it is only a Graduate-type position. We can't afford to put on someone
with 10-20 years experience at $100k+ salary and have them sit on their
backside for 6-12 months making cups of coffee whilst we retrain them for
stuff they've never done in their wildest dreams..
Tim, I suspect you are actually seriously over-qualified.
No problem. Thanks for the reply :-)
You certainly are! Take it from me - coffee probably won't help ;-)
Cameron:-)
Joerg posted on
Re: Job Opportunity: Control Systems Engineer {final call}
Hello Cameron,
A nice cold Coopers might :-)
Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com
Re: Job Opportunity: Control Systems Engineer {final call}
Cameron Dorrough wrote:
Oops -- I got caught up in 'isms'. Over here 'graduate' is used in the
context of 'graduate degree' (Master's or Doctorate), 'graduate student'
(pursuing Master's or Doctorate). When one speaks of education level
one usually says "Bachelors", "Masters" or "Doctorate". Apparently when
you say 'graduate' you mean 'newly graduated'.
So I suppose US$55k/year maybe makes sense.
Are you going to send him off looking for a can of vacuum to charge a
vacuum line, or do you leave that to your blue collar workers?
--
Tim Wescott
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Jerry Avins posted on
Re: Job Opportunity: Control Systems Engineer {final call}
Tim Wescott wrote:
...
That reminds me of the summer I hired on as an assistant maintenance
mechanic at a construction site. When Boss man asked me to find a
left-handed monkey wrench, I gave him one out of my tool box. He said
that it looked right handed, I said, "Adjust it." It had a left-handed
nut that I had filed out of bar stock. They didn't razz me after that.
Jerry
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Scott Seidman posted on
Re: Job Opportunity: Control Systems Engineer {final call}
Food for thought-- they don't razz postal employees who say "I'm feeling a
little funny today" either ;)
--
Scott
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Steve Cothran posted on
Re: Job Opportunity: Control Systems Engineer {final call}
Back when I worked a real job, we had a new-hire that got in a little
tiff with the guys when they sent him for a belt stretcher. (Conveyor
belt stretcher). He was so paranoid about getting joked he wouldn't
believe this one was real.
Re: Job Opportunity: Control Systems Engineer {final call}
Thanks for the insight - I did not know that.
The general rule of thumb Down Under (according to the IEAust who have lots
of rules and probably no thumbs ;-) is that 0-5 years after graduation from
Uni (Bachelors, Masters, whatever) you are a 'Graduate' and after that you
are... a 'Professional Engineer'. A scary thought for some.
If he can get me a cup of coffee first thing each morning, brewed just the
way I like it, I might consider keeping him on. ;-)
Cameron:-)
Re: Job Opportunity: Control Systems Engineer {final call}
Cameron Dorrough wrote:
The first company that I worked for which actually tried to have a
traceable documentation process had ECN* forms with a box marked
"RESPONSIBLE ENGINEER" for me to sign. I always wanted to take my
little red pen and put "IR" in front of "RESPONSIBLE".
* We had ECO forms, too, but executing an ECO was to admit that it was
under Manufacturing's control, and therefore was something that they
should know how to fix -- so everything stayed under ECN control.
The ECN status was really intended as a fast way to get documents saved
for prototypes, but since no one _ever_ got anything into ECO control
they had problems with traceability -- so rather than just start using
the process that was in place they fixed things by making the ECN
process ever more byzantine.
Eventually we got some new management who kicked some butt, told
Manufacturing that they couldn't call it done until it was under ECO
control, told Engineering they had to actually finish things, and
generally made things better.
--
Tim Wescott
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Paul E. Bennett posted on
ECNs and ECOs (was Re: Job Opportunity: Control Systems Engineer {final call})
Tim Wescott wrote:
When I see ECNs and ECOs used in the design process I want to know what
really kicks the chain of changes off. Often there is no clear indication
in the paperwork that the required changes had any definite starting point,
although I know there must have been one).
My own chain uses PRF's, CP's and WI's.
For any problem a PRF (problem report form) is raised - one problem per
form. The PRF is reviewed and either elicits a simple response if the
problem is trivial in nature (usually pointing out the page number of the
manual where the relevent clear instructions are located) or are submitted
for a CP (change proposal) to be generated. Once this CP has been reviewed
and accepted it leads to the appropriate WIs (work instructions) being
generated (these are equivalent to the ECN's I suppose). WIs have a sign
off by the people doing the stated work and the whole changed product is
again submitted to a final review. This final review may kick off another
round of CPs if there are any remaining problems (in which case the review
was not as final as everyone would have been hoping).
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Re: ECNs and ECOs (was Re: Job Opportunity: Control Systems Engineer {final call})
Paul E. Bennett wrote:
I think the ECN/ECO system comes from the US military. The system is to
have every part with a unique revision level. In the company that I
worked at the rev level was numeric for parts under Engineering's
control and alpha for parts under Manufacturing's control. Engineering
Change Notices were for pre-production parts and could happen fairly
easily -- the process was mostly informal, with the only signature
required coming from the (ir)responsible engineer and the project
manager. Engineering Change Orders were for parts in production; with a
lot more people who cared about the changes, and making sure they got
implemented, the ECO process required significantly more review.
Both the ECN and ECO would contain work instructions for dealing with
down-rev parts, usually choosing one of 'just use up the old ones',
'modify the old ones this way' or 'trash the old ones and replace'. An
ECO _could_ result from a problem report + change proposal, but the
process behind the ECO's was always being tuned. Being cynical I never
paid much attention to it, because I knew it would be different the next
time I was called upon to redesign something.
--
Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com
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Re: ECNs and ECOs (was Re: Job Opportunity: Control Systems Engineer {final call})
Hello Tim,
There is one more level commonly used in industry: The deviation. That
is usually the easiest and quickest way to authorize a before-the-fact
change with the least amount of bureaucracy. But one has to be very
certain that it's all kosher. If it goes wrong then the Klieg lights
will turn to one of the few signatories on the form.
Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com
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