Industrial Automation Engineer – Plant Controls & Data

Lhoist; Peach Springs (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan with employer 4

Educational assistance

Paid vacation and sick time

Life and disability insurance

Job summary

Lhoist North America seeks an experienced Automation Engineer to develop, maintain, and support process networks and control systems for the Apex Plant and other sites. You will diagnose instrumentation, control, and network issues and support data engineering from acquisition to MES reporting.

You will work with Production, Maintenance, and Engineering teams to optimize safety, efficiency, and quality, program PLCs/HMIs, and implement plant upgrades across sites. Competitive benefits offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Automation Engineering or related field.
• Minimum 5+ years of industrial automation experience.
• Experience in mining/mineral manufacturing is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support Process Control and Automation Systems at plant sites.
• Provide Automation support to LNA sites to ensure equipment safety, network security and operational efficiencies.
• Troubleshoot and fix problems fast when instruments or control systems stop working to keep production running.
• Improve processes by making changes to control settings or automation to save time, reduce waste, and improve quality.
• Program and maintain systems like VMIs, PLCs, HMIs, Network Switches to control equipment and monitor performance.
• Manage engineering data, including acquisition, cleaning, transformation, storage, security, data visualization and reporting.
• Follow LNA standards and best practices for automation systems. Maintain up-to-date network architecture diagrams.
• Support the implementation of plant process networks and automation upgrades and improvement projects.
• Support and programming of Wonderware Intouch, Wonderware Historian, Rockwell PlantPAx and Factory Talk View SE systems at the plants.
• Program, configure and setup, Allen Bradley 750 series drives, SMC Flex soft starts, E3 plus and E300 overloads.
• Set up maintenance, calibration and interconnectivity of precision instruments, meters, analyzers, scanners and other control/monitoring devices.

Skills

Allen Bradley PLCs

Ladder Logic

HMI/SCADA System Knowledge

OT Networking

Server Virtualization

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Automation Engineering

Tools

Wonderware Intouch

Wonderware Historian

Rockwell PlantPAx

Factory Talk View SE

OSPI Vision

VMWare

MS SQL

Job description

Lhoist North America seeks an experienced Automation Engineer to develop, maintain, and support process networks and control systems for the Apex Plant and other sites. You will diagnose instrumentation, control, and network issues and support data engineering from acquisition to MES reporting.

You will work with Production, Maintenance, and Engineering teams to optimize safety, efficiency, and quality, program PLCs/HMIs, and implement plant upgrades across sites. Competitive benefits offered.