Description
Title:
Process Control Engineer
Location:
Ecorse, MI
Duration:
12months +
Description:
Years of Experience Required:
3-5 years
Description:
We currently have an opening for a Process Control/Software Engineer in the Process Control Division.
As an integral part of this highly skilled, innovative team, you will play a significant role in providing critical services to our production operations.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the design, development, testing and support of process control automation systems.
Job Description:
- Responsible for designing, developing, maintaining, and enhancing process control hardware and software solutions in a heavy industrial environment.
- The applicant will support production hardware and software applications, SCADA systems, Graphical HMI applications and LAN communications.
- The applicant will be knowledgeable in industrial plant process control systems, including programming and technical support
Capable of:
- Analysing short and long-term hardware, software, equipment, and instrumentation requirements and providing appropriate and cost-effective technical solutions
- Providing oral and written communication interfaces with departmental management, operations management, operating crews, control system support personnel, system support personnel and others
- Providing process control support for a 24x7 industrial environment
Responsibilities:
- Support the critical steel making operations by ensuring that process control systems are highly available and error resistant
- Identify, participate in, and/or lead high impact process control projects that result in improvements to safety, quality, production yield and/or financial benefits
- Work closely with the operations teams to understand requirements and identify improvement opportunities; translate into project or minor enhancement specifications, complete with work estimates and forecasted benefits.
- Screen design, report development/maintenance, web page development
- Support production Servers, applications, SCADA, and server network communications
Technical Skills:
- Experience programming in C, Java, or C#
- Experience in a manufacturing environment desired
- Experience in operating systems, software design, programming concepts
- Experience desired in process control systems with a mix of Windows and Linux operating systems; Oracle and MS SQL Server databases; and OSISoft's PI data historian
Notes on position:
- At least 1 year of experience in Java or programming required
- Bachelor's degree required
- 1-2 years' experience
- Will also consider more senior candidates
- Manufacturing background or exposure to a manufacturing environment
- Able to work in a team environment
- Experience with Fortran preferred
Skills:
- Must have excellent communication skills
- Self-starter
- Initiative