What are the responsibilities and job description for the Automation Control Engineer position at Image Associates Inc.?
About the Company
Primary metals manufacturer in Colorado needs a Process Automation Engineer with heavy manufacturing experience.
About the Role
As part of the Maintenance team, you will be responsible for developing new processes that improve steelmaking production and rolling mill maintenance.
Responsibilities
- Design control systems – both hardware and software - that improve production times, material quality, and equipment performance.
- Seek opportunities to improve quality, save time, save money with automation of the company’s process control systems.
- Work with Rockwell/Allen Bradley PLC’s, drives, and HMI.
- Write requirements specifications, and high-level design and systems architecture specifications related to control of steel production processes.
- Provide on-going maintenance support and resolution of process control system problems, including taking ownership of such problems to completion.
Qualifications
- Degree preferred, but expertise in automation and robotics projects is more important.
- Three or more years of relevant experience
Required Skills
- Must have the ability to read drawings – hydraulics, pneumatics, electrical.
- Should have five or more years’ experience as an Automation specialist in a heavy manufacturing environment.
Preferred Skills
- Experience preferred in the steel industry, but will consider aluminum manufacturing, some kinds of automotive manufacturing, mining, glass, cement, paper, lumber manufacturing.