Senior Automation Engineer
R.E. Mason · Richmond, VA · 1 mo ago
Hybrid$50k–$200k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually we need to use headings for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content.
We must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate: EEO, legal, etc. Must preserve all substantive info.
Let's parse the posting.
Content:
- Intro about company: "As a 100% Employee-Owned company, Robert E. Mason & Associates, Inc. believes our Associates are the foundation..." This is about company culture. Could go under "About the role"? Actually "About the role" maybe about the position. But we have a "General Description" section later. So we could put company overview under "About the role"? The instruction: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can choose which sections to include based on content.
We have:
- General Description: description of role, responsibilities overview. Could go under "About the role" or maybe "Responsibilities". But we also have a "Specific Responsibilities" list.
- Required Competencies: list of soft skills.
- Required Education and Experience: education, years experience.
- Preferred Experience/Competencies: additional.
- Physical Requirements: list.
- Compensation: base salary range.
- Benefits: list under "What R.E. Mason Offers Associates:" includes ESOP, retirement, medical/dental/vision, employer paid life insurance and LTD, generous paid leave options (list), paid parental leave, paid company holidays, career development program, retirement and financial wellness program, EAP, alternative/hybrid work schedules.
- Also mention "Under the Robert E. Mason & Associates, Inc. umbrella there are two divisions: R.E. Mason and Apperture Solutions." Might be part of company description.
- Also mention "R.E. Mason is an Emerson Impact Partner covering NC, SC, VA. Emerson is the global leader..." etc.
We need to preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all those details.
We must not include boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. So we must remove the lines about federal contractor, disability status, ADA accommodation, drug-free workplace, etc. Those are legal boilerplate. Must drop them.
Also remove "RE Mason Company is a federal contractor..." etc.
Also remove "This is a drug-free workplace..." etc.
Also remove "Under the Robert E. Mason & Associates, Inc. umbrella there are two divisions: R.E. Mason and Apperture Solutions." That's substantive? It's about company structure; maybe keep as part of About the role or company overview.
We need to decide sections.
Potential sections:
- About the role: could include general description and maybe company overview.
- Responsibilities: specific responsibilities list.
- Requirements: could combine Required Education and Experience plus Required Competencies? But we have separate headings for Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. The instruction says use those headings if content exists. We need to decide what goes where.
We have:
- Required Competencies (soft skills) -> could go under Skills.
- Required Education and Experience -> could go under Qualifications.
- Preferred Experience/Competencies -> maybe also Qualifications or Skills.
- Physical Requirements -> maybe under Requirements? But there is no specific heading for physical; we could put under Requirements or maybe create a separate section? Not in list. Could put under Requirements as part of it.
- Benefits -> Benefits section.
- Pay -> Pay section (compensation).
- Schedule -> we have "Alternative/Hybrid Work Schedules" mentioned under benefits; also maybe schedule info not given explicitly. There's no explicit schedule like full-time, etc. So we should not create Schedule section unless posting actually states them. It mentions alternative/hybrid work schedules as a benefit, but not a schedule definition. So we should not create a Schedule section.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay.
We must not include empty sections.
Now we need to extract content precisely.
Let's gather each piece.
Company overview / About the role:
From start: "As a 100% Employee-Owned company, Robert E. Mason & Associates, Inc. believes our Associates are the foundation of both our customers’ and our success. Our strong company culture, and belief in continued investment in our Associates, has helped us realize long Associate tenures, as well as long lasting relationships with our customers. Under the Robert E. Mason & Associates, Inc. umbrella there are two divisions: R.E. Mason and Apperture Solutions. R.E. Mason is an Emerson Impact Partner covering North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. Emerson is the global leader of process systems and solutions. R.E. Mason provides industry-leading process equipment and service for process control, automation, safety, and reliability. The industries served include Chemical, Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences, Power & Utilities, Food & Beverage, and Pulp & Paper."
That's substantive. We'll put that under About the role.
General Description: "The successful candidate will be a significant contributor on our Project Execution Team. The Automation Engineer is responsible for the lead role in design, development, and implementation of our customers’ automation systems during capital projects. The Automation Engineer will be a significant contributor and often the lead technical resource on customer projects. The Automation Engineer will deliver quality solutions and services to customers using the technologies provided by DeltaV, Asset Management Systems (AMS) and other Emerson solutions.The Automation Engineer will have close interaction with project management and account management to ensure that the project is delivered within the schedule and budget and with the high level of quality expected by our customers. Additionally, the Automation Engineer will provide mentoring and leadership to other engineers assigned to projects.The Automation Engineer will also be expected to provide support to sales, generate estimates and proposals, and contribute to operations and project management functions."
We could either merge this into About the role or Responsibilities. Since we have a Specific Responsibilities list, we could put General Description under About the role as overview, and Specific Responsibilities under Responsibilities.
Thus About the role will include company overview + General Description.
Now Responsibilities: list of specific responsibilities bullet points.
Let's extract them exactly as they appear:
"Lead and work in a project team to meet schedule and budget
Monitor project scope and identify and evaluate potential deviations
Design and implement process control strategies
Implement control strategies within the DeltaV DCS that are used to interface with and control physical devices such as valves and pumps within the plant environment. This will include:
Configuring and testing control and equipment modules classes and instances
Configuring and testing batch control strategies including phase classes and recipes
Configuring custom dynamos, graphic displays, and trends
Develop system design documentation for a variety of continuous and batch process control applications
Support Factory Acceptance Tests (“FAT”s) / Software Acceptance Tests (“SAT”s)
Support start-up and commissioning activities at customer sites
Troubleshoot system hardware, software, network, and instrument bus technologies
Configure and commission wireless field networks
Configure DeltaV Continuous Historian and integration to 3rd party Historians such as OSI PI
develop custom shift, environmental, or production reports for plant maintenance and operations personnel
Configure process modeling & simulation (using both Mynah MiMic software & DeltaV)
Work independently on-site at a customer location"
Note: there is a typo "dynamos" maybe meant "dynamics"? but we keep as is.
We need to format as
- each item. For the sub-items under "Implement control strategies within the DeltaV DCS..." we need to decide if we keep them as separate list items or nested list. The instruction: use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. It doesn't forbid nested lists. We could keep the main bullet as a
- and then a nested
- for sub-items. That would preserve detail.
Thus:
- Implement control strategies within the DeltaV DCS that are used to interface with and control physical devices such as valves and pumps within the plant environment. This will include:
- Configuring and testing control and equipment modules classes and instances
- Configuring and testing batch control strategies including phase classes and recipes
- Configuring custom dynamos, graphic displays, and trends
Similarly for other items that are simple.
Now Requirements: we have Physical Requirements list: "Standing, Walking, Sitting, Kneeling, Reaching Overhead, Climbing, Pushing and Pulling, Lifting - 20 pounds, Using a Computer, Using a Telephone, Driving". Also maybe "Be a United States Citizen with a valid driver’s license." That is a requirement. Also maybe "RE Mason Company is a federal contractor..." but we removed that. Also "Be a United States Citizen with a valid driver’s license." is a requirement.
Also maybe "Required Education and Experience" is qualifications.
Thus Requirements section could include physical requirements and citizenship/driver license.
But we also have "Required Education and Experience" which is more qualifications.
We need to decide mapping.
We have headings: Requirements, Qualifications, Skills.
We could assign:
- Requirements: Physical Requirements + Citizenship/Driver license.
- Qualifications: Required Education and Experience (B.S. in certain fields, 5+ years experience, MS Office Experience).
- Skills: Required Competencies (communication, teamwork, self-directed, customer focused, organized, integrity) plus Preferred Experience/Competencies (additional control systems, ISA S88, understanding of regulated systems, prior experience in manufacturing, Windows Server 2016/2019 and network troubleshooting skills). Also maybe "Preferred Experience/Competencies" could go under Skills as well.
We must not invent or summarize away detail; we need to preserve all specifics.
Thus we need to list each item exactly as written.
Let's extract Required Competencies:
"Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to work in team environment; a team player
Self-directed, self-motivated, and detail oriented
Customer focused
Organized and reliable; Demonstrates integrity
Be a United States Citizen with a valid driver’s license."
Wait the citizenship line appears also under Required Competencies? Actually in the text: after "Organized and reliable; Demonstrates integrity" there is a line "Be a United States Citizen with a valid driver’s license." It is under Required Competencies block? Let's check original:
"Required CompetenciesExcellent verbal and written communication skillsAbility to work in team environment; a team playerSelf-directed, self-motivated, and detail orientedCustomer focusedOrganized and reliable; Demonstrates integrityBe a United States Citizen with a valid driver’s license.Required Education and ExperienceB.S. in CHE, EE, ME, Comp. Eng, Comp. Sci., other related disciplines5+ years of relevant experience with DeltaV Control Systems or PLCsMS Office ExperiencePreferred Experience/CompetenciesExperience with additional Control Systems or PLCsISA S88 experienceUnderstanding of regulated or validated systemsPrior experience working in a relevant manufacturing environmentWindows Server 2016/2019 and network troubleshooting skillsPhysical RequirementsStandingWalkingSittingKneelingReaching OverheadClimbingPushing and PullingLifting - 20 poundsUsing a ComputerUsing a TelephoneDriving"
Thus the citizenship line is part of Required Competencies block (makes sense). So we should include that under Skills (or maybe Requirements). But we already have citizenship/driver license as a requirement; but it's listed under Required Competencies. We'll keep it under Skills as part of competencies.
Thus Skills list includes:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work in team environment; a team player
- Self-directed, self-motivated, and detail oriented
- Customer focused
- Organized and reliable; Demonstrates integrity
- Be a United States Citizen with a valid driver’s license.
Now Preferred Experience/Competencies list:
- Experience with additional Control Systems or PLCs
- ISA S88 experience
- Implement control strategies within the DeltaV DCS that are used to interface with and control physical devices such as valves and pumps within the plant environment. This will include: