Automation Engineer
Role Overview
Works in the Maintenance Department, reporting to the Maintenance Manager.
Provides facility-wide engineering review, design, and analysis of control systems and information technologies.
Acts as subject matter expert for automation in melting, casting, forging, heat treatment, machining, and utilities.
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Role overview
Works in the Maintenance Department, reporting to the Maintenance Manager.
Provides facility-wide engineering review, design, and analysis of control systems and information technologies.
Acts as subject matter expert for automation in melting, casting, forging, heat treatment, machining, and utilities.
Safety and maintenance responsibilities
- Follow EHS and EHSS standards, prepare risk assessments and job safety analyses, and maintain safe work practices.
- Maintain safety interlocks, alarms, and emergency shutdown systems; participate in HAZOP studies, inspections, audits, and investigations.
- Troubleshoot automation systems and equipment, maintain backups, optimize control logic, and support maintenance and emergency repairs.
- Develop and monitor preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance recommendations and plans.
- Perform engineering data analysis, design review, failure analysis, root-cause studies, and reliability assessments.
- Review contractor scopes and documentation, support supplier tests and commissioning, and contribute to approved improvement projects.
- Follow Management of Change procedures, record system changes, and implement 5S, TPM, Lean Manufacturing, and Reliability Excellence.
- Train and mentor engineers and technicians and prepare automation training courses.
Additional duties
Support operational reliability and the site-wide maintenance strategy.
Participate in safety, quality, and production investigations and maintain workplace cleanliness.
Coordinate with area engineers, supervisors, planners, contractors, and vendors.
Assist with recruitment and maintain effective working relationships.
Requirements
- Technical expertise in engineering review, design, and analysis of control systems and information technologies across a facility.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for automation systems used in melting, casting, forging, heat treatment, machining, and utilities.
- Provide advanced troubleshooting of automation hardware, software, systems, and networks.
- Prepare risk assessments and job safety analyses and follow applicable EHS and safety standards.
- Experience with PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, and VFDs is required by the role's stated responsibilities.
- Support maintenance planning, reliability analysis, failure elimination, and root cause analysis.
- Provide hands-on training, coaching, and mentorship to engineers and technicians.
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