NSBC - Level II Automation Engineer

Nucor•Berkeley, SC

2d•Onsite

About The Position

NSBC is seeking a Level II Automation Engineer to provide 24/7 on-call support for Level 2 computer network systems within a steel mill environment. This role is responsible for troubleshooting, maintaining, and upgrading mission-critical production software. The engineer will develop event-driven tracking services, optimize mill performance, and implement/maintain software interface tools, databases, and supervisory control systems. The position involves designing and developing real-time analytics and reporting platforms, modernizing legacy HMI clients, integrating with hardware, and enabling real-time data updates. The role also includes applying concepts in web application development, server-side enterprise web application programming, and complex, n-tier systems. Responsibilities extend to collecting and analyzing production data, designing and implementing automation solutions using Object-Oriented Programming and various languages, troubleshooting software issues, and implementing solutions for performance and scalability. The engineer will also manage CI/CD pipelines, maintain observability platforms, manage mill systems, and administer production maintenance software, infrastructure, and network hardware, including Oracle and SQL Server databases. Maintenance and upgrades of servers supporting Level II systems in the Beam Mill and Casters are also key aspects of this role.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Computational Biology or related field.
Coursework must include: Web Application Development; Enterprise Web Development; and Java for Application Programming.
Must submit resume and transcript.

Responsibilities

Provide 24/7 on-call support for Level 2 computer network systems.
Troubleshoot, maintain, and upgrade mission-critical production software.
Engineer and develop event-driven tracking services using technologies such as RabbitMQ.
Optimize mill performance and ensure efficient operations.
Implement and maintain reliable software interface tools, databases, product quality and process parameter, historians and higher-level supervisory control and data delivery systems.
Design and develop real-time analytics and reporting platforms using Blazor, WPF and Flask.
Modernize legacy HMI clients, integrating with hardware like hand scanners, and enabling real-time data updates with SignalR.
Utilize Web Application Development to introduce concepts in programming web application servers.
Apply Enterprise Web Development, focusing on the server-side enterprise web application programming, and complex, n-tier systems.
Collect and analyze production data.
Incorporate Java for Application Programmers to design and implement automation solutions using Object-Oriented Programming and other Programming languages including FORTRAN, C#, C++.
Troubleshoot and fix software issues.
Implement and manage solutions for performance and scalability, including distributed caching with Redis, high-performance communication with gRPC, and load balancing with YARP.
Utilize requirements, design, programming, testing, and problem-solving skills to understand existing level II models and make modifications or add new functionality as per new requirements.
Maintain, update, create reports for mill wide level II production systems.
Incorporate Java for Application Programmers to track materials for inventory/reporting purposes.
Automate and manage the full CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and SonarQube.
Maintain the observability platform with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
Manage Mill Systems to perform day-to-day operations efficiently.
Administer, maintain, and grow production maintenance software, infrastructure, and network hardware.
Administer, maintain, and upgrade Oracle and SQL Server databases, responsible for performance tuning, data management (CRUD), and server maintenance.
Maintain and upgrade the servers supporting Level II systems in the Beam Mill and Casters.