Control Systems Engineer

• Jul 2018 - Present

Scada Engineer

• Jan 2017 - Jun 2018

Responsibilities• Take primary responsibility for the operation and maintenance of the water services plants and telemetry control/SCADA systems• Management of various capital projects including design, procurement, contractor engagement, programming/configuration, instrumentation installation and commissioning• Regularly review and optimise system performance. This includes liaison with treatment plant operators to identify and resolve system and hardware issues• Carry out detailed investigations of technical problems and follow through to resolution. This involves engaging external consultants, technicians and electrical contractor’s as required• Configuration and commissioning of a wide range of equipment and metering devices that are used for Water and Wastewater Services Operations• Ensure effective communication with clients, stakeholders and staff• Assist with the coordination of resources for system operation and maintenance and the delivery of the capital works programKey Achievements:• Managed different projects at a time including liaising with different contractors and customers• Council’s representative for the resolution of SCADA issues of Baralaba new Water Treatment Plant (fully automated) at the delivery phase• Provided a technical specification for the Electrical Switchboard of Sewerage Pump Stations and another Specification for SCADA Support tender• Managed a telemetry check and maintenance run for all of the telemetry sites (65 sites) in the shire• Fault finding and troubleshooting of different issues in PLC and RTU codes and instruments configurations• Managed the telemetry and SCADA assets and made sure there are enough in stocks and performed hardware and software upgrade as required

Electrical Assembler

• Oct 2015 - Sep 2016

My main responsibilities and key achievements in this company were:Responsibilities:• Assembled various customised cables and wires including communication, telecommunication and power cables according to data pack and specific drawing or instructionsKey Achievements:• Worked in a fast paced production line and team-based work to deliver each job in time• Involved in a multi-hundred million dollar defence project and assembled, installed and integrated different electrical and mechanical equipment within limited time and tough conditions based on drawings, work package instructions or supervisor guidance

Electrical and Automation Engineer (Practical Placement)

• Sep 2015 - Oct 2015

My main responsibilities and key achievements in this company were:Responsibilities:• Dealt with the routine electrical and automation tasks of company such as PLC programming, setting drives, establishing industrial network communication, commissioning electrical motors and drives, performing factory acceptance test for products (machine tools) and wrote the related reportsKey Achievements• Panasonic PLC programmed to established an RS422 serial network communication between this PLC and Schneider MDrive as an initial phase of upgrading the ProfiStop products to be controlled and run by PLC• Conducted electrical and functionality Factory Acceptance Test for all the available products (ProfiStop)

SCADA and Telemetry Engineer

• Nov 2013 - Jun 2015

IGMC, a governmental national company with more than 500 employees, is responsible for managing the generation and distribution of electricity all around the country.Responsibilities:• Mentored the installation of new RTUs and Protocol Converters and relating systems regarding the upgrading project of new national power dispatching control and SCADA systems• Supervision of contractors’ work such as operation and maintenance of current SCADA and control systems in the control center as well as remote terminalsKey Achievements:• Surveyed more than 20 sites (power plants and substations) across the country and prepared the relevant plans (using AutoCAD) and documents as a database• Liaised closely with different contractors and other regional cooperators to ensure that their responsibilities were done completely• Mentored the installation, commissioning, test and delivery of new RTUs (ABB 560) in more than 20 sites.

Electrical and Industrial Automation Engineer

• Jun 2010 - Nov 2013

PLC programmed, SCADA & HMI designed, Plant (Industrial Furnaces) commissioned, FAT/SAT, Trained customers, Prepared documents of commissioned plants such as equipment and instruments data-sheets and manuals of operation and maintenanceResponsibilities• Commissioned installed furnaces by PLC programming, designed and run monitoring systems (HMI) and finally performed I/O, cold and warm test (SAT) and delivered the commissioned plant to the customer• Designed and prepared electrical drawings for power distribution and control circuits and prepared cable schedules for power, control and PLC I/O for smaller projects• Prepared documents for the related commissioned plant such as manuals of operation and maintenance including alarms definition, fault diagnosis and removal proceduresKey Achievements• Configured and programmed PLC (mostly Siemens S7 300 and 400) according to IEC 61131 Standard, designed HMI (Siemens WinCC or Protool, Easy View, Omron NQ) and commissioned machines in more than 10 projects on different sites each valued around $1 million• Defined all faults, alarms and warnings for fault diagnosis and removal, provided necessary customised reports in the HMI and introduced required interlocks in the PLC which ensured the desired safety of all personnel, plant and equipment• Commissioned a preinstalled modern German furnace (made by Schwartz) with more than 500 local and distributed inputs and outputs, a DCS topology with an S7- 400 series PLC as central CPU and six ET200S as local CPUs, a Profibus DP network with 3 repeaters, Pilz safety control systems and with more than 10 PID control loops, 20 addressable burner relays and 20 addressable SEW motor drives which earned about $150K for our company, while the furnace itself cost around Euro 5 million