Water Services Analyst SCADA

Administrative Duties Actively supports and upholds the City’s stated mission and values.
Under direction of the SCADA/IS Manager for the area of assignment, employees of this class are expected to perform program duties associated with an assigned area of the SCADA/IS Section.
A SCADA/IS Analyst requires a greater level of experience, will be working on tasks of greater complexity and are expected to work independently with medium supervision.
ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES Supervisory: This job does not have formal supervisory responsibilities.
Budgetary: This job has partial responsibility for budgeting at the program level (forecasting, preparing, entering & implementing budget.
) Strategic Planning: This job has partial responsibility for strategic planning at the program level (assists with developing, implementing, and managing long and short-term goals).
Policies/Procedures: This job has partial responsibility for policies and procedures at the program level (assists with developing, implementing, and interpreting).
Compliance: This job has partial responsibility at the program level (follows, assists in ensuring compliance with, and may enforce Federal, State, and Local laws, rules, and regulations as well as City policies and procedures.
) Council Communications: This job carries out day-to-day activities in accordance with Council’s adopted priorities and direction.
Reporting: This job has full responsibility for reporting to Federal/State/Local agencies at the section level (ensures reporting requirements are met, trains others on reporting requirements and methods, and addresses discrepancies in reporting).
Examples of the Work Performed Provides excellent customer service to both internal and external customers.
Provides knowledge and assistance to engineers and contractors.
Provides input on equipment needs to repair or up-grade plant and wells to improve efficiency.
Provides assistance in verify equipment that works with the SCADA system and adds efficiencies and participates in developing standards Provides assistance for replacement to more efficient electrical equipment.
Provides direction to Water Production and Wastewater Staff on day-to-day projects relating to the upgrade, operation and maintenance of the SCADA system.
Responsible for purchases, procurement and inventory of essential replacement and upgrade parts to reduce down time and increase efficacy of SCADA equipment, instrumentation and system hardware.
Completes SCADA network up-grades.
Maintains licensing and installs current operating software for Lake Mary Sixnet controller programs Restores and modifies programming of electrical components of the SCADA network.
Performs grounding maintenance.
Performs equipment operation as necessary.
Generates the necessary documents, SOP’s, and reports to properly record the service activities for all electrical and electronic equipment.
Works with low, medium and high voltage AC/DC electricity.
Specifies and selects proper electrical gear for the application to meet the needs of the City.
Installs and maintains hardened alarms for the safety of all city personnel.
Performs general instrumentation and electrical contract inspections.
Services and maintains motor contacts, soft starts, and variable frequency drives.
Services and maintains motor control centers and associated breakers using proper safety procedures.
Performs corrective maintenance to restore proper operation of all electrical motors.
Installs electrical monitoring equipment using professional methods as required.
Performs corrective maintenance to restore proper operation of all monitoring equipment.
Installs electrical motors using professional methods as required.
Installs un-interruptible power supplies using professional methods as required.
Reviews schedules to ensure all operational needs are properly prioritized, scheduled and met.
Plans and schedules work for large projects in their area of specialty.
Schedules training, monitors training for quality, and coordinates other on-going training, including safety training and safety enforcement.
Schedules training, monitors training for quality (including on-going training, including safety training and safety enforcement.
) Completes daily logs, service complaint forms, cost accounting forms, and other forms and reports (both manual and computer data entry) as directed to include planning and scheduling in CMMS.
Assists with interviews and makes recommendations during the hiring process.
Researches, estimates, and purchases/requisitions equipment and materials.
Other duties as assigned.
PROGRAMMING Research and develop new function block programming for new and existing SCADA devices Proficient at using Control Expert to build and modify function block programming Other SCADA/IS Team members source for larger projects Programming question Develops Programming standards for PLC, Redlion HMI, Citect/CiCode Train other team members in Programming advancements and techniques.
‘ Review plans for correct programming requirement, including Tag names and PID information INSTRAMENT AND CONTROLS Calibration and configuration of existing and new equipment Installation and maintance of existing and new equipment Review plans for correct size a specs for projects and that all equipment is in the City of Flagstaff SCADA standards Bench test new equipment to determine if it meets the operational need of the organization Actsed as lead in updating firmware of all SCADA equipment Train other team members on Calibration techniques and firmware update protocols ELECTRICAL Help develop electrical safety Standards, protocols and programs for the SCADA/IS team Proficient at low and medium voltage electrical Familiar with high voltage systems and procedures Familiar with 120vac safety and operations Act as lead in trace wires and circuits while team is upgrading old systems Review plans for correct wiring and fused based on a predetermined wiring standard Act as lead in developing Cabinet Standards Teach other team members electrical safety techniques Qualifications MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS Associates Degree or two years of college coursework.
Four years of progressively responsible employment in the SCADA field.
ADEQ Certification in Water, Collection, Distribution or Wastewater Treatment within 12 months of appointment Or any combination of education, experience, and training equivalent to the above Minimum Requirements.
DESIRED EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING BA, BS or equivalent education or experience 7 years of experience in electrical , instrumentation, and SCADA programming in the Water / Wastewater field including budgeting, safety, policies and procedures.
Grade 3 Treatment Operator Certification or other higher level professional certifications (Master Electrician, etc…) ISA Certifications CAP, CCST NTT Certifications, Electrical Safety, Electrical Code and Standards, Electrical Maintenance OTHER REQUIREMENTS Must possess, or obtain upon employment, a valid Arizona driver’s license.
Regular attendance is an essential function of this job to ensure continuity.
Supplemental Information REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY) Ability to install, update and maintain Citect version 7.
50 and higher along with managing Citect project backup and restores.
Working knowledge of Citect Project Editor, including configuring variable, local and trend tags Working knowledge of Process Analyst Views including adding, configuring, and analyzing trends Working knowledge of Citect Graphic Builder, including building, modify and upgrading Citect pages, and the ability to build configure and use: Citect genies, equipment, devices.
Working knowledge of Citect Cicode structured language on Citect project pages or building large reports.
Including moving any current scaling that is handled in Citect using Cicode to the PLC code level.
Working knowledge of Schneider Electric Ecostruxure Control Expert including configuring and programing the m340 and m580 family of PLCs and other hardware such as VFDs Working knowledge programming with Schneider Electric Ecostruxure Control Expert including function block programming, scaling blocks, and PID loops Working knowledge of Red Lion Crimson programing software version 3.
x and higher.
Ability to build, modify, develop and maintain pages, screens, trends and tags on the Graphite series of Red Lion HMI’s Working knowledge of Win911 version 7.
14 and newer.
Including installation, patching and updating of software.
Ability to configure alarms, call out on various device types and networks, manage alarm and warning groups.
Working knowledge of Allen Bradley RS Logix version 5 and greater and the ability to troubleshoot code written in ladder, function block, structured text.
Can convert code to new SCADA standards including function block programming and Schneider Electric m580 architecture Knowledge of Modbus TCP/IP and using Modbus gateways Knowledge of configuring and wiring equipment for use with analog and digital signals to the PLC Familiar with Cisco networking and configuration of cisco switches based on predetermined specs using SSH and telnet client.
Able to work with network engineers to configure switches based on their guidance, including opening and closing ports.
Familiarity with network protocol analyzers.
Working knowledge of layer 2 and 3 networking and routing Knowledge of Windows Server 20112Rs or later Knowledge of radio configuring examples being GE MDS Sd400, SD900 PROGRAMMING Act as lead in installing, updating and maintaining Citect version 7.
50 and higher along with managing Citect project backup and restores.
Proficient in Citect Project editor, including configuring variable, local and trend tags Proficient of Process Analyst Views and adding, configuring, and analyzing trends Act as lead in the use of Citect Graphic builder, including building, modify and upgrading Citect pages.
Including the ability to build configure and use: Citect genies, equipment, devices.
Proficient in Citect Cicode structured language; examples being for generating reports; and exchanging and manipulating values from PLC(s).
Proficient in Schneider Electric Ecostruxure Control Expert including configuring and programing the m340 and m580 family of PLCs and other hardware such as VFDs Act as lead in programming with Schneider Electric Ecostruxure Control Expert including Function Block Programming, Scaling blocks, and PID loops Proficient in Red Lion Crimson programing software version 3.
x and higher.
Can build, modify, develop and maintain pages, screens, trends and tags on the Graphite series of Red Lion HMI’s Act as lead in Win911 version 7.
14 and newer installations, patching and updating.
Teach other team members how to configure alarms, call out of various devices, manage alarm and warning groups.
Proficient in Allen Bradley RX Logix version 5 and greater and the ability to troubleshoot code written in Ladder, Function block, Structured Text.
Can convert Code to new SCADA standards including Function Block programming and M580 architecture INSTRAMENT AND CONTROLS Proficient in Modbus TCP/IP and using Modbus gateways Proficient in configuring and wiring equipment for use with analog and digital signals to the PLC Act as lead in the calibration and configuration of existing and new equipment Act as lead in Installation and maintance of existing and new equipment Act as lead while bench testing new equipment to determine if it meets the operational need of the organization Acted as lead in updating firmware of all SCADA equipment Proficient in Radio communication and configuration ELECTRICAL Act as lead at developing standards, protocols and programs in electrical safety Proficient at low and medium voltage electrical equipment Working knowledge of high voltage systems and procedures Act as lead in traceing wires and circuits while the team is upgrading old systems Act as lead in developing Cabinet Standards PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORKING ENVIRONMENT While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to use hands to feel, reach with hands and arms, talk or hear; is regularly required to sit; and is occasionally required to stand, walk, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, or smell.
The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
There are no special vision requirements for this position.
Working conditions include occasionally working near moving mechanical parts and risk of electrical shock.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.