Principal I&C Engineer — Industrial Scale-Up

Alta Resource Technologies, Inc.; Boulder (CO); On-site; USD 145,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Time Off

Company Holidays

Job summary

Alta Resource Technologies seeks a Principal Instrumentation & Controls Engineer to lead design, operation, and maintenance across R&D and pilot plants, with potential for scale-up to commercial facilities. Role requires hands-on problem solving and technical leadership across chemistry, biology, operations and engineering.

Experience in chemicals/mining or biotech processes and ability to collaborate with EPCMs, vendors and multidisciplinary teams is essential.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Instrumentation, Electrical, Controls, or Chemical Engineering.
• 7+ years I&C experience in industrial/chemical processing; chemicals, petrochemicals, oil & gas, hydrometallurgical, mining, and/or biotechnology.
• Working knowledge of DCS/PLC platforms, field instrumentation selection and troubleshooting.
• Working knowledge of ladder logic, structured text and function blocks.
• Working knowledge of control loop tuning.
• Working knowledge of various industrial protocols including OPC UA, Modbus RTU/TCP, Serial, Ethernet/IP.
• Have demonstrated both hands-on experience and technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own operational support, maintenance, reliability, continuous improvement and design of all EIC and OT equipment and systems at R&D scale (pilot and demonstration scale plants).
• Provide hands-on technical support and troubleshooting for instrumentation, analyzers, controls, PLC/SCADA, electrical systems and other OT equipment and systems.
• Set up and manage PLC/SCADA, instrumented safety systems, alarm management and data historian.
• Create and manage maintenance strategies for EIC and OT equipment including sparing strategies, redundancy, availability and maintainability.
• Commission instrumentation and control systems on the demonstration plant including loop checks and calibration verification.
• Liaise with vendors for EIC commissioning activities; drive reliability initiatives and continuous improvement.

Skills

I&C experience

DCS/PLC platforms

Ladder logic & structured text

Control loop tuning

Industrial protocols (OPC UA, Modbus,

Education

B.S. in Instrumentation, Electrical, Controls, or Chemical Engineering

Tools

Rockwell Studio 5000

Ignition

DeviceNet

ControlNet

Profibus

Fieldbus

ISA/IEC standards knowledge

Job description

Alta Resource Technologies seeks a Principal Instrumentation & Controls Engineer to lead design, operation, and maintenance across R&D and pilot plants, with potential for scale-up to commercial facilities. Role requires hands-on problem solving and technical leadership across chemistry, biology, operations and engineering.

Experience in chemicals/mining or biotech processes and ability to collaborate with EPCMs, vendors and multidisciplinary teams is essential.