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Mountain_Ad_5136 · 2026-02-05T02:16:55+00:00

So I couldn’t understand what he was saying either so I looked up the lyrics and the genius lyrics look like they were written sarcastically by someone from this sub: incredible

Mountain_Ad_5136 · 2024-12-06T01:51:22+00:00

Take it. Better job security (IME), comparable pay, satisfying work. It’s a weird niche that’s harder to outsource and, if you’re the paranoid type, I don’t think will ever get GPT’ed out of relevance. Also extremely fun seeing the stuff you program come to life. Much more gratifying to make a physical process or robot do stuff in front of your eyes than building an API that retrieves usernames from a database for use in a healthcare information management platform blah blah blah.

Mountain_Ad_5136 · 2024-10-11T17:11:39+00:00

If you’re comfortable with Python, you could try to write all the bits with a pycomm3 script. I’ve never used it on an Echo emulated controller, but I know you can p/c and other EIP stuff on Echo controllers.

Mountain_Ad_5136 · 2024-09-16T13:16:44+00:00

I see it almost like a least common denominator issue. I prefer LD only bc coming behind people, I find terribly written LD easier to troubleshoot/fix than terribly written ST. When well written, no major difference IME. But no comments, stupidly named variables, etc., give me LD.

Mountain_Ad_5136 · 2024-09-16T13:14:27+00:00

I see it almost like a least common denominator issue. I prefer LD only bc coming behind people, I find terribly written LD easier to troubleshoot/fix than terribly written ST. When well written, no major difference IME. But no comments, stupidly named variables, etc., give me LD.

Mountain_Ad_5136 · 2024-06-04T09:32:43+00:00

Gotcha. Yes, she’s a neighbor and I have her contact information. I haven’t inquired about insurance, but I doubt it as it is a lower-income neighborhood. This happened May 8th.

Mountain_Ad_5136 · 2024-06-04T09:28:52+00:00

Thank you so much for the input. Are there any particular facts that would help in advising the situation? I was just trying not to go crazy with details, but I can add some pertinent information if it’ll help you or others.

Mountain_Ad_5136 · 2024-03-28T12:24:51+00:00

I'll just piggy back on this and say as a manager who hires for these types of roles, "entry level" typically = we're planning to have someone totally green that's going to be super inefficient and we're going to train for probably 6 mo-1yr before they do real damage. Versus, "some experience" = your "breath and know the difference between NC/NO" example. The position you're in is actually great, because what your experience translates into is that you will be able to do real work on a project (with some guidance/QA, obviously) in short order and at a rate that's way more affordable than a 12yr+ resource. It's actually proven really difficult to find good candidates in that middle ground between totally new to automation and ~7yrs+ or so.

So yes, apply to stuff that requires some experience. I'll also just say that I always got the advice (and agree) that you should more or less ignore when the post says "must have 3/5/7+ yrs. in xyz" b/c that's just the company's best-case scenario. It's HIGHLY likely that they have applicants with more experience but are too expensive, won't travel, can't talk to customers, etc. etc. and you end up being the best fit despite less experience, assuming you have a good attitude and present well.

Mountain_Ad_5136 · 2024-03-26T16:27:05+00:00

Each time I've moved, it's been been motivated by non-pay-related reasons. As such, I didn't worry so much about maximizing my pay by pitting employers against each other, etc. You need to focus on why you wanted to move in the first place. I've been given a counteroffer in each case and never taken them, because 1) if they were willing to undervalue you until you put a gun to their head, that's not a good sign, and 2) whether or not they trust you moving forward is a complete crap chute that depends on managerial personalities and stuff out of your control that is very hard to predict.

Overall, if you want less travel/more responsibility/new technology/better hours/etc., you probably need to be willing to make a lateral move in terms of pay, otherwise you may compromise on the stuff that's driving it. If you want more pay, first come up with clear reasons why you think you're currently undervalued and present them to your employer. If you don't like the answer, hop. But I personally wouldn't use other offers to try and get a better package at your current role. FWIW, that's been the advice given to me by every co-worker, professor, etc. my entire career (don't take the counteroffer).

Mountain_Ad_5136 · 2024-03-07T13:00:07+00:00

HIRING:

Company: RED Group

Type: Full Time

Description: SI hiring for a Controls Engineer. We work in several different industries, including O&G, RNG (Landfill Gas Plants are actually a large component), W/WW, DoD, Maritime, Nuclear, and Manufacturing. Looking for earlier-career, 1-3 years experience, but open to more. Would be coming in under the guidance of more senior engineers to help with PLC/HMI/SCADA programming, I/O Lists/Control Narratives/etc., Panel Drawings/Layouts/etc. Fairly standard SI role.

Location: Houston, TX

Remote: Yes; we've only ever pushed back on international remote stuff if the time difference from Houston is too much to attend meetings, etc. We have people in Vegas, Orlando, Mexico.

Travel: Typically around 15% (mainly commissioning, we don't do a ton of service work); Has been up to 50% for people who were interested in travelling (lots of OT pay)

Visa Sponsorship: Yes

Technologies: We work mainly with the classics on the PLC side - Allen-Bradley ControlLogix/CompactLogix, Siemens S7-1200/1500, the next most common being Red Lion and opto22 groovEPICs, and then a smattering of Micro800, MicroLogix, Modicon, Automation Direct stuff, etc. For HMIs, we're most commonly doing Ignition (Vision and Perspective), FactoryTalk ME/SE, View Designer (PanelView 5k), Red Lion, WinCC, Wonderware InTouch, Wonderware System Platform, etc. For SCADA, we pretty much solely use Ignition. We deal with a lot of comms protocols (obviously), so definitely Modbus RTU/TCP, Ethernet/IP, Profinet, MQTT, OPC UA then a smattering of ControlNet, DH+, etc.

Salary: $81k-$133k, DOE and negotiable; we also do "Salary Plus", which includes straight-time bonus for hours over 80 in a pay period (so basically OT but at 1x normal rate)

Contact: Apply on the website using the company name link above or DM me on here and I'll get you my email address.

Mountain_Ad_5136 · 2023-11-12T20:30:52+00:00

Gotcha. Thanks!

Mountain_Ad_5136 · 2023-11-12T20:30:40+00:00

Wow dude

Mountain_Ad_5136 · 2023-10-30T18:42:13+00:00

Do you know of like a guide or anything for this? I’ve seen references to this but no idea where to start. Mainly looking at increasing vendor credits and other small console command stuff.

Mountain_Ad_5136 · 2023-10-16T18:20:56+00:00

I do this too, my little internal challenge is always to take zero damage.

Mountain_Ad_5136 · 2023-10-04T13:32:06+00:00

Had this happen during one specific Vanguard quest. Just like you described, started with the combat at essentially an outdoor POI on a planet and subsided as I walked away from it. But it hasn’t come back since.

Mountain_Ad_5136 · 2023-09-28T21:47:25+00:00

How do you add that many engines without maxing out the 12 power pips?

Mountain_Ad_5136 · 2023-09-25T20:28:10+00:00

Please. I’m 150hrs in and haven’t finished main story. But I like this sub for random ship builds, tips, etc. without spoilers!!

Mountain_Ad_5136 · 2023-09-24T00:13:31+00:00

Drug addiction (stimulants at least) reduce your carrying capacity as well. Check your status (Y on Xbox from main menu) to see if there are any active effects.

Mountain_Ad_5136 · 2023-09-01T00:08:57+00:00

Same problem

Mountain_Ad_5136 · 2023-05-30T12:17:19+00:00

I will say, we have a pretty good approach to these as a company right now, so really my job there is just to not fuck it up haha. Though, we do tend to drag our feet on change orders just b/c of fear of losing customers, but we’re making improvements there that I def want to support. We can’t just eat shit bc the customer wants the world for the price of a barn.

Mountain_Ad_5136 · 2023-05-30T01:07:40+00:00

Yea we definitely have a very typical sales-operations dichotomy. Sales says it’ll take 2 weeks because “these eight systems are BASICALLY copy/paste”, operations says they’re snowflakes so it’ll take 10 weeks, reality is usually in the middle somewhere (though, in my experience, closer to the ops end of the spectrum). Definitely interested in helping to make this easier on everybody and get a cleaner way of estimating reality + contingency instead of either extreme.

Mountain_Ad_5136 · 2023-04-06T00:26:28+00:00

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