NSBC - Level II Automation Engineer

Division: Nucor Steel Berkeley • Location: Huger, SC • Application deadline: August 25, 2026

Responsibilities

• Provide 24/7 on-call support for Level 2 computer network systems, troubleshooting, maintaining, and upgrading mission-critical production software in a steel mill environment.
• Engineer and develop event-driven tracking services using technologies such as RabbitMQ to decouple PLC communication and ensure system reliability for production lines.
• 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 to maximize safety, quality, and throughput.
• Design and develop real-time analytics and reporting platforms using Blazor, WPF, and Flask, including modernizing legacy HMI clients, integrating with hardware like hand scanners, and enabling real-time data updates with SignalR.
• Develop web application servers and focus on server-side enterprise web application programming for complex, n-tier systems.
• Collect and analyze production data.
• Design and implement automation solutions using Java, Object-Oriented Programming, and other languages including FORTRAN, C#, and 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.
• Understand existing Level II models and make modifications or add new functionality based on requirements.
• Maintain, update, and create reports for mill-wide Level II production systems.
• Track materials for inventory and reporting purposes using Java.
• Automate and manage the full CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and SonarQube.
• Maintain the observability platform with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
• Administer, maintain, and grow production maintenance software, infrastructure, and network hardware.
• Administer, maintain, and upgrade Oracle and SQL Server databases, including performance tuning, data management (CRUD), and server maintenance.
• Maintain and upgrade the servers supporting Level II systems in the Beam Mill and Casters.

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.

Schedule

40 hours per week