Job Description
The starting base pay for this role is between $121,000 and $142,000 at the time of posting.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain, improve and deploy new machine control code, instrumentation, and electrical subsystems for production units.
- Work collaboratively with other teams to design and improve electrical power and communication systems for the production units across the entire facility.
- Contribute to and improve internally-developed software libraries that are used across the company, from research to production-scale units.
- Gather feedback from end-users of your work and distill into actionable modifications. Iterate.
- Support 24 hour operation in a running chemical plant.
Requirements
- You are a self-starter, experienced, capable Controls and Engineer with an aptitude for learning new things and taking complex projects across the finish line. You will be a key member of the Controls team, contributing to machine control software, instrumentation, and programming. You have excellent communication skills to harmoniously collaborate with a wide range of skill sets: from scientists to technicians during the deploy stage, to out-of-house service providers across big, complicated interfaces during the build stage.
- Ideally 5-7 years experience in directly OR related field experience.
- Experience deploying code on systems that interact with the physical world.
- Ability to write Structured Text and familiarity with other IEC 61131-3 languages, Siemens environment preferred.
- Strong fundamental understanding of field-deployed electronics, sensors, and motion components.
- Implementation of industrial Fieldbus communication protocols (EtherCAT, Profinet, EthernetIP, Modbus, etc.).
- Familiarity with industrial electrical design, including: wiring diagrams, industrial network architecture, control panel design, power distribution, NFPA 70 (NEC), 79, and 70E arc flash and protocols for process automation. Experience with unique and challenging industrial electrical safety requirements.
- Hazardous Area Knowledge, including good understanding of ClassI/II and Div 1 & 2 requirements and Intrinsically safe wiring.
- Understanding of how to integrate machines with facility/business interfaces (SCADA, MES, ERP, Ignition, etc.).
- Good knowledge and understanding of document control processes to support the efforts of ‘as-builts’ documentation accurate across the lifecycle of the tooling and the plant.
- At least a B.S. in Engineering or a related technical field
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