Job Description
As Process Controls Engineer - Automation at Bakelite, you’ll help us create a better tomorrow with sustainable and innovative chemistry today.
We’re Everywhere. Everywhere you look, you’ll find products enabled by Bakelite, from stronger homes to safer automobiles and everywhere in between. With more than 100 years of history and strong customer relationships, we boldly engineer sustainable products to tackle our world’s most challenging demands.
Join Our Team and Help Us Build a Stronger, Safer, Better World.
It’s Better with Bakelite.
Process Controls Engineer: The Impact You’ll Have On The Organization and World
• You will collaborate with site personnel and key technical resources to provide process control engineering services.
• You’ll define, plan, lead and execute key non-capital and capital assignments.
• You will provide insights and expertise from analysis of batch and continuous process operating data, hands-on troubleshooting, and interaction with other personnel in operations, maintenance, engineering, or R&D.
Life in Atlanta: Atlanta is Georgia’s capital, largest city, and home to Bakelite’s corporate headquarters.
• The city offers lots of activities. In addition to restaurants and a bustling downtown area, you can explore Zoo Atlanta, Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta Botanical Garden and more.
• Check out some of Atlanta’s famed sports teams, including the Braves, Falcons and Hawks.
• Atlanta is home to several the most colleges and universities in the southern U.S., including University of Georgia, Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, John Marshall Law School and others.
• Love to travel? You’ll be close to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the busiest airport in the world.
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What Does a Typical Day Look Like? Here are your primary responsibilities:
• Develop disciplined work practices for configuration of logic and graphical interfaces.
• Support automated systems, configure interfaces, ensure compliance with standard practices, write and perform verification/validation protocols.
• Assist with the development and management of the lifecycle for process control system hardware and software.
• Assist IT/OT team with infrastructure services.
• Participate in incident response, review and root cause analysis.
• Participate in management of change.
• Collaborate with internal and external engineering or operating personnel to prepare preliminary or detailed project packages for funding submission or construction.
• Select preferred equipment or contract services through bid analysis
• Provide peer review.
• Provide subject matter expertise across multiple technology platforms for the base process control systems and for functional safety (Rockwell, Honeywell, and Emerson)
• Lead commissioning and start-up of automated systems for batch and continuous operations.
• Build capability in self and in others through assigned work and training.
• Optimize batch recipes and operation sequences to support productivity initiatives.
• Ensure successful delivery of process control project assignments.
• Complete regular status reporting and work prioritization.
What is Needed to be Successful in this Role (Required Skills/Abilities):
• Engineering Science degree or equivalent education or training and 5 years experience in Chemical Process Industries as a process control engineer.
• Strong working knowledge of industrial automation networks and communication protocols and demonstrated application of batch recipe design and implementation.
• Strong working knowledge of power distribution and instrumentation used in the chemical process industry.
• Demonstrated success in design and application of automated procedures and visualization of process data for both operators of equipment and leaders in manufacturing, maintenance and engineering.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong working knowledge of Aveva PI.
• Knowledge of current Microsoft tools, including database structures and SharePoint.
• Knowledge of SAP.
• Willing to travel between 35-40%.
Are you ready to help us build a better tomorrow and put your fingerprints on the world? Apply for this exciting opportunity, and learn more about our hiring process, insights from our global associates, our robust benefits and more at Bakelite.com/careers.
We are an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, minority status, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability or any characteristic protected by law.
In order to be considered for this position candidates are required to submit an application for employment through our career site, be at least 18 years or age, willing to take a drug test, submit to a background investigation as part of the selection process, as well as additional periodic background checks as required by the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) or regulations adopted by the Department of Homeland Security or other regulatory agencies. Candidates are required to have unrestricted authorization to work in the United States. This company participates in E-Verify. For additional details, click HERE.
If currently an employee of the Company, you must have satisfactory work performance. Disclaimer: We are not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms/employment agencies for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails to an employee about this position. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee of the Company via email, the Internet or in any other form and/or method without a valid written search firm agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of the Company; no fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by the Company as a result of the unsolicited referral or through other means.
