Industrial Combustion Systems Engineer

Service Center Metals, Inc.; Prince George (VA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Service Center Metals, Inc. near Richmond, VA, seeks an experienced Combustion Specialist to install, troubleshoot, optimize, and commission industrial combustion systems across scrap melting, casting, and extrusion operations.

The role involves working with burners, fuel and air systems, combustion controls, and related process equipment to ensure safe, reliable operation and consistent product quality. Candidates should have hands-on diagnostic skills and familiarity with gas trains, safety

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Install, start up, commission, troubleshoot, and maintain industrial combustion systems.
• Diagnose and repair burner, ignition, flame-supervision, fuel-train, combustion-air, and exhaust-system problems.
• Set up and tune air-to-fuel ratios to improve temperature uniformity, fuel efficiency, emissions, and product quality.
• Troubleshoot combustion controls, including flame safeguards, programmable logic controllers, temperature controllers, actuators, valves, pressure switches, and instrumentation.
• Perform combustion analysis using portable analyzers and other diagnostic equipment.
• Verify proper operation of natural gas, propane, oxygen-enriched, and mixed-fuel systems, as applicable.
• Inspect and maintain gas trains, regulators, filters, solenoid valves, safety shutoff valves, pressure switches, piping, and leak-detection systems.
• Support furnace and oven temperature surveys, burner balancing, refractory-related troubleshooting, and process optimization.
• Interpret electrical schematics, P&IDs, burner-management-system drawings, control logic, and equipment manuals.

Job description

Service Center Metals, Inc. near Richmond, VA, seeks an experienced Combustion Specialist to install, troubleshoot, optimize, and commission industrial combustion systems across scrap melting, casting, and extrusion operations.

The role involves working with burners, fuel and air systems, combustion controls, and related process equipment to ensure safe, reliable operation and consistent product quality. Candidates should have hands-on diagnostic skills and familiarity with gas trains, safety