Invensys – Driving Innovation in Automation

• Project Application Engineer provides pre-project, project and post-project engineering services for one or more projects. Provide consultation to prospective users;
• Interpret customer technical specifications and generate strategies for implementation in production;
• Work with customer in defining detailed application, system, and hardware requirements;
• Work from process and instrumentation drawings to design applications and control strategies;
• Develop software and system configuration, control application, human machine interface or safety control application;
• Prepare test, product and project documentation;
• Participate in customer acceptance tests;
• Work on-site engineering, start-up and application commissioning;
• Increase project margins by minimizing re-work and complying with Invensys’ technical engineering processes and quality standards;
• Develop and maintain broad knowledge and skills in a specific practice area;
• Develop and maintain technical knowledge of products and applications via active collaboration with different stakeholders;

Principal Accountabilities:

• Consulting: full scope
• Proposal and sales support: full scope
• Project scope: work on programs and projects with complex features
• Definition of project: full scope
• Design: high complexity
• Implementation: high complexity
• Testing: full scope
• Commissioning: lead
• Startup: lead
• Onsite work / Maintanance: independent 
• Task / Project team lead: full scope
• Project lead (task and people): full scope
• Managerial responsibilities: plan, schedule or coordinate activities for multiple major projects within a matrix organization
• Subordinates: no
• Communication scope: regularly interact with clients and others, lead project meetings
• Any other task requested by manager related to the job scope 

Competencies:

• Relevant Experience: 10+ years
• Education: Master's degree in engineering, IT, informatics or automation
• Certification: Specialty certification
• PC software: OS Windows, OS Unix/Linux, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Access, One of SQL database, One of CAD
• Programming: One of programming languages (VB, C#, C++, Java, etc.)
• Control software: PLC, DCS
• Control system HW: PLC, DCS
• Process control: Theory of automation; Practice in Control loop stability and tuning

Other Competencies:

• Flexibility for working on projects and travelling on the frequent business trips to customers;
• High commitment to work, proactive approach;
• Customer approach, team spirit and good communication and presentation skills;
• Communicative level of written and spoken English; and
• Valid driving license (Category B).

Employee Values:

• Straightforward: ‘We are Straightforward. We do what we say and we communicate in simple ways. We behave with integrity.'
• Challenge: ‘We Challenge ourselves and others to rethink what is expected. We are agile and move at the speed of change.’
• Open: ‘We are Open. We value differences. We listen. We learn, connect and collaborate with others.'
• Passionate: ‘We are Passionate about our customers, our people, our business and our technology. We are positive in our approach to finding solutions that better our lives.'
• Effective: ‘We are Effective. We deliver on promises. We are pragmatic, fast and we compete to win.'

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