Control Systems Engineer-Factory
About The Position
The Control Systems Engineer identifies, recommends, and implements control and instrumentation changes to increase factory throughput and sugar recovery while reducing processing costs. The role optimizes existing factory automation and helps assess, analyze, recommend, develop, and install future factory automation capital projects. The engineer designs instrumentation and control systems, including electrical designs for batch and continuous process controls and specifications for process instrumentation, VFDs, and control valves. The role develops control-system documentation such as P&IDs, loop wiring diagrams, specifications, manuals, PLC programs, and HMI configurations, and works with OPC communication between factory and business systems and industrial device networks. This position supports and optimizes PLC and process control systems, provides technical expertise in their maintenance, and works with factory and process engineering and maintenance teams to improve processes and equipment. It also trains factory employees, assists with factory startup, and coordinates project work to meet budget and schedule requirements, especially ahead of startup.
Requirements
- Knowledge of instrumentation and electronic controls, typically gained through a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, control engineering, or computer science.
- Strong project-management skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to prioritize and organize work, manage schedules, and make decisions or sacrifices to facilitate on-time factory startup within the incumbent's reasonable ability to control events.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge and prior industrial experience with Delta V.
- Knowledge and prior industrial experience with industrial networking and device networks.
- Knowledge and prior industrial experience with AutoCAD and other computer drafting and design software.
- Knowledge and prior industrial experience with computer programming.
- Knowledge and prior industrial experience with process modeling.
- Knowledge and prior industrial experience with control-systems programming.
Responsibilities
- Promote a positive work culture through the Company Values of Safety, Integrity, Quality, Teamwork, and Accountability.
- Design instrumentation and control systems, including electrical designs for batch and continuous process controls and specifications for process instrumentation, VFDs, and control valves.
- Develop control-systems documentation, including P&IDs, loop wiring diagrams, specifications, manuals, PLC programs, and HMI configurations.
- Work with OPC communication between factory and business systems and industrial device networks.
- Research and recommend ways to improve use of automation and computer-control systems.
- Consult with Factory and Process Engineers on capital process improvements and make recommendations and program changes.
- Consult with the Maintenance Engineer and Electrical & Instrumentation Supervisor about control-system maintenance, and work with Process Engineers to improve processing efficiency.
- Provide technical expertise in control-system maintenance.
- Optimize existing control systems and ensure they are tuned and operating effectively.
- Participate in needs assessment, analysis, recommendation, development, and installation of future factory automation capital projects.
- Oversee support of PLC and process control systems.
- Work with factory maintenance personnel and other engineers to analyze and recommend equipment specifications and selection, install equipment, recommend process improvements, and debug processes.
- Evaluate projects and equipment for life-cycle benefits and return on investment.
- Provide general control-systems and instrumentation training to prepare factory employees to operate electrical, instrumentation, and control equipment.
- Assist with factory startup and work on projects involving contractors and factory labor.
- Manage work within budget and schedule, completing capital jobs on schedule to allow factory startup.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical insurance eligibility starting on day one.
- Health savings account.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with Company match and contribution.
- Paid dental insurance.
- Paid basic life insurance.
- Paid short- and long-term disability.
- Vision insurance.
- Life insurance.
- Flexible spending accounts.
- Paid time off.
- Paid sick leave.
- Paid parental leave.
- Paid volunteer opportunities.
- Paid holidays.
- Discretionary bonuses.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Service awards.
- 24/7 employee assistance program with access to eight confidential visits with a licensed counselor at no cost.
- Some benefits are subject to eligibility criteria.
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Job Type
Full-time
