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GTI Energy · 2 weeks ago

Manager, R&D – Instrumentation, Controls and Connected Systems

Greater Chicago Area

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

$130K/yr - $170K/yr

15+ years exp

GTI Energy is dedicated to innovation and collaboration in solving energy challenges, and they are seeking a Manager for their Instrumentation, Controls and Connected Systems (ICCS) functional group. This role involves overseeing ICCS staff, coordinating project resources, maintaining high-quality standards, and developing strategic plans for data acquisition and processing systems.

Responsibilities

Develop and mentor ICCS staff consisting of electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineers

Coordinate with project managers to understand resource needs and assign resources to support project teams and deliver project ICCS deliverables on time and with the highest quality

Maintain and continuously improve the quality of work performed by the ICCS group through maintenance of standards and best practices and peer review of ICCS deliverables

Perform all supervisory duties including interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws

Support proposal development through coordination and commitment to proposed ICCS work scope and cost

Coordinate with other stakeholders (e.g. IT) to develop and implement a strategic plan for ICCS that drives data acquisition system standardization, including data acquisition, communication, storage, and processing architecture

Perform other duties as assigned

Qualification

National Instruments LabVIEWPLC programmingCloud IoT platformsData visualization systemsIndustrial communication protocolsIoT communication protocolsInstrumentation selectionElectrical distribution designHazard classification systemsStaff motivationCommunication

Required

Excellent communication skills, both orally and in writing

Ability to motivate staff to achieve company goals

Familiarity with National Instruments LabVIEW tools, PLCs (preferably Allen-Bradley), Chemical plant control systems (preferably Emerson)

Familiarity with state of the art for cloud side IoT platforms such as Losant, ThingsBoard, AWS, Azure

Familiarity with data visualization systems such as Grafana, PowerBI

Familiarity with industrial communication protocols such as MODBUS, HART, TCP/IP

Familiarity with IoT communication protocols such as LoRa, LTE, MQTT

Familiarity with selection and installation of instrumentation used in residential and industrial gas utility applications, pipeline infrastructure applications and lab/pilot and demonstration scale chemical plants

Familiarity with design of electrical distribution systems and their components

Familiarity with electrical design in the context of chemical process plants

Knowledge of electrical area hazard classification systems

Minimum of 15 years of relevant work experience after a B.S. degree, or 10 years after an M.S. or Ph.D. Management experience preferred