Process Controls Engineer

Essential Responsibilities

• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize plant operations to drive process and product improvements while maintaining a strong safety and environmental compliance focus and minimizing plant downtime caused by process automation system failures.
• Detect causes of deviations in quality, capacity, yield, and energy consumption; provide technical training to less experienced engineers or operators.
• Provide care and troubleshooting of process automation systems and their associated networks and interfaces.
• Identify and manage Preventative Maintenance tasks and health checks for the systems supported.
• Complete project work including system installation, configuration, design, and development.
• Closely interact with the Global Process Automation Technology Leader to ensure that all process control activities (hard- and software) within the production area are in accordance with global and business MET standards; if necessary, initiate/lead appropriate training for plant operations staff.
• Develop and follow through for Service Requests to resolve issues; work directly with process control vendors as needed for escalation support.
• Report all significant system incidents, failures, and outages; participate in and lead Root Cause Investigations and implement corrective actions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree* in Engineering or Computer Science; Chemical Engineering or Electrical Engineering discipline preferred.
• 2+ years of Process Controls experience; 5+ years' experience preferred.
• Chemical manufacturing experience preferred.
• Prior experience programming in DeltaV, Mod V, ABB or Foxboro preferred.
• Ability to work with diverse work groups, including operations, engineering, and other functions to meet the team's and plant's objectives of increasing asset utilization and implementing MET.
• Ability to coordinate and implement several process control development projects simultaneously.
• Prior Olin experience in a relevant position preferred.
• Must be able to obtain a TWIC (Transportation Worker Identification Credential) and possess a valid US Driver's license.