Process Control Engineer

5 days ago


San Francisco, California, United States MP Mine Operations LLC Full time
Job Title: Process Control Engineer - Night Shift

MP Materials is seeking a highly skilled Process Control Engineer to join our team on a night shift basis. As a Process Control Engineer, you will be responsible for supporting current plant operations, participating in capital projects, and designing and commissioning new facilities.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Support plant operations by working within the PLC/SCADA environment
  • Update and develop new graphics within the SCADA GE iFix HMI
  • Program ladder logic, function block, and structured text in RSLogix
  • Generate new equipment tag IDs within OSI-Soft PI
  • Support Ethernet-based network infrastructure
  • Troubleshoot and installation support of actuated valves, instruments, and various process equipment
  • Drawing generation and oversight of new construction
  • Follow design, project management, and document control standards
  • Specification and design of new control and instrumentation systems
  • Development of project scopes and maintaining proper communications, schedule, and budget tracking with other supervision and management
  • Design of proper control schemes and strategies, working with process engineers to understand plant operation requirements
  • Programming of PLC logic along with graphical HMI software
  • Troubleshoot instrumentation and control system problems and resolve by modification or replacement
  • Manage the PI data historian tag list, graphical displays, and reporting
  • Assist instrument techs in troubleshooting and setup of equipment
  • Creates and maintains process documentation
  • Maintains I/O lists, control specification documents, and instrumentation data sheets
  • Create and maintain control docs, P&ID's, process control procedures, design basis procedures, data sheets, I/O lists, etc.
  • Provides technical training and supervision to operators and process
  • Ongoing Process Improvement efforts
  • Identifies and scopes out large capital project needs
  • Participate in large capital project teams as a sponsor, participant, advisor, or leader
  • Identify and lead small capital projects
  • Identification of production issues and bottlenecks
  • Work with purchasing, vendors, maintenance, contractors, operators, and other team members to complete project
  • Completes any other tasks as needed or as directed by management
Requirements:
  • BS degree in Electrical or Chemical Engineering, or a related field
  • 5-10 years of experience as a process control engineer in a chemical, mining, petroleum, or heavy industrial setting
  • Must be authorized to work in the United States
  • Valid Driver's License and good driving record are required in order to drive company vehicles on property
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience programming and troubleshooting PLC systems
  • Experience in purchasing and setting up new control systems and instrumentation systems (PLC with data historian)
  • Experience with a wide range of instrumentation (temperature, pressure, control valves, flowmeters, pH, VFD's, etc.)
  • Experience with the following unit ops is preferred (reactors, filters, pumps, PLC control systems, wet scrubbers, kilns, dryers, etc.)
  • Solvent Extraction, Chlor-Alkali, or Co-Gen power plant experience is a plus
  • Experience in daily maintenance troubleshooting
  • Experience in process improvements from concept (identification, scoping, design, procurement) to installation
  • Knowledge of Allen Bradley ControlLogix / CompactLogix, RSLogix, RSLinx, RSNetworx for ControlNet, RS Factory Talk, HART communication protocol & instruments, Allen Bradley PanelView Plus, General Electric iFIX, OSI Software - PI (Data Link, ProcessBook, Server, Notifications, etc.), Microsoft SQL Server
  • Knowledge of how to create, read, and modify electrical and control diagrams, PFD's and P&ID's
  • Production process optimization/tuning experience of closed loop control systems
  • Good written and verbal skills
  • Computer skills should include Microsoft Office suite


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