Senior Controls Engineer

Job Title:

Senior Controls Engineer

Job Description:

 The Role: 

Our site in Burnet, TX is seeking a Senior Controls Engineer to join our New Product Development team. In this exciting role, the Senior Controls Engineer will be the technical lead for a team of world-class controls engineers responsible for design, installation, validation, deployment, and support of control systems for production of solid and liquid chemistry for the semiconductor industry. The candidate will report directly to a Controls Engineer Manager and will be resourced 20% technical leadership and 80% engineering.  

   

This position will work cross-functionally with a diverse team of controls engineers, chemical process engineers, mechanical engineers, chemists, and product marketing managers. In addition to technical leadership, the candidate will specify, design, and complete projects as well as initiate and support control panel design, process instrumentation, and PLC/HMI programming for high-volume and low-volume chemical purification and delivery systems. The ideal candidate will exhibit the ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, continuous improvement environment focused on safety, quality, and equipment reliability.  

 

 

What You’ll Do: 

• Identify and implement best practices and standards 

• Be a mentor and technical leader for controls engineers 

• Become an automation subject-matter-expert (SME) for scale-up and release of new chemical processes to high-volume manufacturing 

• Design control panels and select components based on end-user requirements 

• Create PLC and HMI code based on end-user requirements as defined in IO sheets, sequence charts, alarms/interlock charts, P&IDs, and control panel electrical schematics 

• Support New-Product-Development (NPD) scientists and engineers in use and troubleshooting of controller equipment, including sensors, transmitters, remote IO, analog scales, temperature controllers, overlimit controllers, and other microcontrollers 

• Identify and execute CIP opportunities to automate processes, improve safety, move from paper governance to data governance, eliminate manual steps / data collection, provide dashboards for decision making 

• Supervise operators and maintenance workers in testing, tuning, and adjusting equipment to obtain optimum operating performance 

• Troubleshoot NPD control panel hardware, IO, and electrical equipment, executing the necessary adjustments to bring equipment up to running status 

• Make programming changes online for retrofitting or upgrading equipment 

• Coordinate project timelines with NPD management 

• Quote components and order parts directly with outside vendors 

• Work safely and drive process improvements 

• Listen actively and solve problems in a structured manner 

• Manage change through cross-functional partnering in a global environment 

 

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