Control Engineer
Role Overview
Provide on-site technical expertise for installation, commissioning, maintenance, troubleshooting, and retrofits of rotating-equipment control systems.
Focus on GE Mark V, Mark VI, and Mark VIe/VIeS turbine controls for gas turbines, steam turbines, and generator/compressor packages.
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About Renco
Renco S.p.A. is an international engineering and construction firm with more than 40 years of experience.
Role scope
Provide on-site technical expertise for installation, commissioning, maintenance, troubleshooting, and retrofits of rotating-equipment control systems.
Focus on GE Mark V, Mark VI, and Mark VIe/VIeS turbine controls for gas turbines, steam turbines, and generator/compressor packages.
Duties and responsibilities
- Perform site pre-commissioning, cold and hot loop checks, point-to-point signal verification, first-fire sequences, synchronization, and full-load testing.
- Modify, upload/download, debug, and verify control application software using Toolbox and ToolboxST.
- Configure, calibrate, and troubleshoot instrumentation, servo valves, LVDTs, RTDs, thermocouples, 4–20 mA transducers, and electro-hydraulic actuators.
- Configure and support Cimplicity and iFix HMIs, network switches, UDH/PDH Ethernet, Modbus, Profibus, and Foundation Fieldbus links.
- Diagnose alarms, hardware faults, network latency, trip events, and run-up logic discrepancies during outages.
- Support Mark IV/Mark V to Mark VIe migrations, including cabinet terminations, I/O verification, and sequence translation.
- Prepare progress reports, trip investigations, punch lists, redlined electrical drawings, and field service reports.
- Follow site-specific LOTO and Permit to Work procedures and applicable safety standards.
Required competences
- Hands-on knowledge of GE Mark V, Mark VI, and Mark VIe hardware, including controller racks, power distribution modules, terminal boards, and I/O packs.
- Practical experience using GE Toolbox and ToolboxST for logic configuration, trend creation, sequence editing, and alarm diagnostics.
- Strong knowledge of gas and steam turbine operating philosophies, including control, startup, temperature, and protection logic.
- Knowledge of Ethernet, TCP/IP, Modbus, Profibus, and GE UDH/PDH architectures.
- Ability to read and redline P&IDs, instrument loop diagrams, single-line diagrams, and wiring schematics.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical discipline; significant direct field experience may substitute.
- At least five years of experience as a Field Service Engineer, Technical Advisor, or Millwright working specifically with heavy rotating equipment.
Location and work setting
- The role is on-site in Saudi Arabia.
Compensation
- Gross monthly salary is USD 3,500–4,500.
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