FREELANCE CONTROL AND AUTOMATION ENGINEER

An automation engineer freelance is a professional, a self employed engineer which delivers services in automation and control to engineering companies or final users by subcontracting.

He usually has got a various professional experience.

A freelance automation engineer can offer a set of services such as designing, PLC programming ( and other miscellaneous programmable systems ), installing, technical writing, functional analysis of plants to control by program ( such as machines, production lines etc ).

• He usually works with his own tools such as computer, cables, interfaces, software, electrical tools, some measurement devices and some basic mechanical tools.
• According to the tasks to be executed, a freelance technician can work at his office or at home ( especially for programming and technical writing ), or at his client's office or shop ( especially for talking about functional analysis, testing and installing ).
• For any reason, some companies prefer their subcontractors work in their buildings for all the time of a project ( for confidentiality purpose for instance ).
• Some professionals ( such as Bruno ) do not supply any material or devices, and neither software nor licences to their clients or to the final users, but some others do it.

Quickly, the services in automation offered by a self-employed technician consist in delivering the results of his own work without supplying anything other.

• The users are free to choose and to acquire themselves the necessary hardware needed to execute the job and to operate what is required, without any go-between.
• Once tests and installation have been done, the freelancers can not warrant any urgent maintenance operation, simply because they are self-employed, and as soon as a project is finished and in operation, they are engaged in other projects with other clients.
• The user keep his autonomy according to his operating plant. Since the project is starting, the relationship is clear and without any ambiguity with his service provider.

Contracting can be either a weekly or monthly contract work ( according a daily fixed price ), or a fixed price contract for a whole project whether robust specifications have been written about all the jobs to be executed. In all cases, billing is at least once a month.

This folder lists all the industrial services and the various provision of services that a self-employed automation engineer suggests, and the context in which they can be executed.

• Design.
• Implementation.
• Installation.
• Deal.
• Mobility.
• Sectors of activity.
• Methods of execution.
• Typical interventions.

You will find here a short resume about the activity of a professional in factory automation, and a resume about his experience with a list including the programmable devices ( programmable logic controllers, industrial digital networks etc. ) he has worked with.

• Last projects.
• Programmable logic controllers.
• Networking and communication.
• Motion control.
• MMI.
• SCADA.
• Miscellaneous systems.
• Industries.
• References.

You can find here all you want to contact a professional, and all the legal informations ( registration and so on ) about him.

• Address, phone number and email address.