Senior Process Automation Engineer

Senior Process Automation Engineer

Location: Phoenix, AZ (Need locals)

Duration: Full time

Description

Supervise, coordinate, provide direction, and advanced problem solving. Review and improve the performance of existing automation systems.

• Direct or supervise others on moderate to complex issues including mentoring and developing junior Engineers
• Review and improve performance of discrete, continuous and advanced control equipment and software and identify opportunities to implement process optimization through automation
• Regular review and improve alarm management systems (alarm rationalization)
• Participate and represent process automation in HAZOP and other safety and reliability processes and studies
• Identify and troubleshoot specialized, analytical and advanced sensors
• Keep track of Process Automation equipment obsolescence and develop plans to replace equipment prior to it becoming obsolete
• Implement Process Automation solutions through delegation of work
• Review and comment on project proposals and verify the quality of project work
• Work with Expert or APC systems to optimize plants
• Review and improve performance of PCS communication and the plant historian
• Perform other duties as required

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an Engineering discipline and five (5) years of related experience in Engineering relevant to Process Automation or related field, including three (3) years of experience with Advance Sensors and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs); OR
• Master's degree in an appropriate Engineering discipline and three (3) years of related experience in Engineering relevant to Process Automation or related field, including three (3) years of experience with Advance Sensors and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous supervision experience
• Electrical Journeyman Training
• PLC or DCS manufacture's training or certification
• Experience in Plant Information or some other data base storage and retrieval system
• Understanding of science behind comminution, flotation, exothermic reactions and other processes used in mining and mineral beneficiation and processing