Facilities Controls Engineer | PLC/SCADA Application Developer

Texas Instruments•Dallas, TX

About The Position

Texas Instruments is seeking an experienced Facilities Controls Engineer to support PLC/SCADA development and build utility systems for a semiconductor wafer fab. TI Facilities operates more than 150 utility systems—including chemical, gas, electrical, water, HVAC, waste, vacuum, and controls systems—that must run continuously to support manufacturing. Facilities works with manufacturing teams to understand how utility systems affect processes and to reduce consumption. The role designs, implements, and troubleshoots controls, instrumentation, PLCs, SCADA systems, and industrial networks. It also supports facility expansion and sustaining projects, provides technical controls support to the 24-hour operations team, helps ensure compliance with applicable codes, and collaborates with suppliers and engineers across disciplines and TI sites. Texas Instruments will not sponsor visas or work authorization for this position.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
At least 5 years of relevant engineering experience with industrial controls and instrumentation systems.

Nice To Haves

Experience with PLCs and/or SCADA systems.
Experience applying controls and instrumentation to process systems such as process cooling water, hot water, air systems, exhaust, and chemical or gas distribution.
Proven experience with Siemens, Rockwell Automation/Allen Bradley, or WAGO PLC hardware and software.
Proven experience programming Siemens, Rockwell Automation/Allen Bradley, or WAGO PLCs using control narratives or sequences of operations.
Experience developing or delivering turnkey Wonderware/Operations Management Interface (OMI) SCADA systems.
Experience in industrial network design, configuration, installation, maintenance, security strategies, and troubleshooting.
Basic understanding of PID loop tuning.
Ability to terminate instrumentation to a controller and perform calibration through the program interface.
Ability to troubleshoot alarms, field instrumentation, pneumatic and electric control valves, variable speed drives, and motor starters.
Experience managing multidisciplinary projects.
Ability to respond quickly to potentially critical situations, assess them rapidly and accurately, identify failure causes, determine corrective actions, and implement corrections promptly to mitigate system upsets.
Proficiency with PC hardware and Windows-based applications.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and troubleshoot controls systems and instrumentation, including flow, pressure, temperature, level, pH, and water-quality monitoring equipment.
Program and troubleshoot PLCs, including PLC hardware, I/O interface modules, and programming software.
Program and troubleshoot SCADA systems used to monitor facility systems.
Design, implement, and troubleshoot secure, reliable industrial networks for communications between devices, PLCs, and SCADA drivers.
Assist with developing and executing controls-related scope for facility expansion and sustaining projects, including P&IDs, sequence of operations, I/O lists, panel drawings, and instrumentation lists.
Understand industrial equipment and processes and their operating parameters, and make decisions with engineering support to improve or maintain associated controls and instrumentation hardware and software.
Provide technical controls support to the 24-hour operations team.
Ensure projects and systems comply with applicable codes, such as the National Electric Code and International Fire Code.
Influence supplier performance through management and audits of field work.
Develop relationships and communicate with engineers across disciplines and at other TI sites to promote best-practice sharing and communication.