Senior Controls Engineer

 

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Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.  

 

Everything we do in EMD Electronics is to help us deliver on our purpose of being the company behind the companies, advancing digital living. We are dedicated to being the trusted supplier of high-tech materials, services and specialty chemicals for the electronics, automotive and cosmetics industries. We foster a global collaborative organization made up of individuals who have the passion to win, obsess about the customer, are relentlessly curious and act with urgency. Together, we push the boundaries of science to make more possible for our customers.

 

Your Role:

 

The Senior Controls Engineer will provide process controls engineering support for EMD Electronics globally. The successful candidate will become a member of the Technology Solutions team within Process Development Engineering. Technology development services will be distributed among large capital projects, process improvements in existing plants, and general process controls systems engineering. The typical job starts in early process development phases and ends with the start-up of the new facilities on site.

The principal accountabilities include the design and application of logic controls in chemical process development and manufacturing plants. The full package includes e.g. instrumentation, software engineering and coding, and control systems architecture and hardware design under consideration of plant safety and cyber security aspects.

You are able to grasp complex interrelations and to translate quality and system dynamics requirements into innovative and robust technical solutions. You are keen to contribute in medium-sized interdisciplinary, global teams of specialists and you use your process industries background for the design of control architectures in collabo­ration with process engineers. You are curious and motivated to be part of worldwide, cross functional teams in development, project management and operational functions.

 

The preferred locations for this role are Allentown, PA; Carlsbad, CA; or Tempe, AZ.

 

Who You Are:

 

Minimum Qualifications:

• B.S. in automation, electrical engineering or related fields
• 3+ years of professional experience in process industries
• Proficiency in DCS infrastructure design, software engineering including coding of logic controllers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• M.S. in automation, electrical engineering or related fields
• Experience in plant automation programming (DCS/PLC/SCADA) and IT security
• Knowledge in advanced process control technologies and experience in its applications in process industries
• Acumen in process systems engineering
• Experience in Good Automated Manufacturing Practice (GAMP 5)
• Experience in application of Process Analytical Technologies or Robotics
• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Position requires up to 20% travel, both domestic and international

 

Pay Range for this position: $73,000 - $219,000

 

Our ranges incorporate all levels and career types available within this specific role, and are derived from relevant industry market data.  Should we decide to make an offer, we will consider several factors, including but not limited to your location, skills, experience, career level, and other job-related factors.  This role may offer the following benefits: medical, vision, and dental insurance; life insurance; dis