Control System Specialist
Public global power company that owns and operates electricity generation, regulated utilities, LNG infrastructure, renewable energy, and battery-storage assets.
About The AES Corporation
AES develops, constructs, and operates power-generation and distribution businesses, supplying affordable and sustainable power. Its portfolio includes solar, hydro, wind, natural gas, coal, battery storage, utilities, and LNG infrastructure.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will maintain, modify, inspect, calibrate, and install control equipment and systems. You will investigate failures, analyze root causes, implement corrective actions, maintain backups and technical records, manage spare parts, update control systems, prepare reports, and support on-call fault response.
Requirements
- Advanced English.
- Instrumentation.
- Basic electrical circuits and protection systems.
- Industrial communication protocols.
- Distributed control systems.
- Mark V and Mark VIe.
- Siemens PCS 7.
- Emerson Ovation.
- PLC.
- Technical-report preparation.
- Network administration and installation.
- Process analysis.
- Network and communications-system security.
- Advanced Excel.
- SAP.
- Workday.
Responsibilities
- Maintain, modify, and install equipment and systems.
- Inspect electrical and electronic rooms to detect failures early.
- Calibrate instrumentation equipment and verify its accuracy.
- Analyze root causes of events and failures and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Evaluate operational failures and identify process-improvement opportunities.
- Maintain equipment and tools in proper condition.
- Prepare maintenance-progress reports.
- Maintain spare-part availability and report shortages.
- Interpret manuals, electrical drawings, instrumentation diagrams, logic diagrams, and equipment instructions.
- Create and safeguard backups for control equipment and systems.
- Keep control systems updated and improve them following failures.
- Participate in the on-call rotation for unplanned fault response.
- Comply with safety, hygiene, quality, environmental, and asset-management standards.