What are the responsibilities and job description for the Automation Engineer position at Steel Dynamics, Inc.?
Responsibilities
- Manage multiple production and reporting SQL servers for process setups, tracking and continuous data logging.
- Develop, improve and troubleshoot data flow and ETL pipelines.
- Maintain data interfaces bridging Level 1 process control, Level 2 supervisory control and Level 3 enterprise systems.
- Administer virtualized environments utilizing Hyper-V and VMware frameworks.
- Setup, manage and maintain Level 2 systems and coating lines data center.
- Maintain Level 2 networks including setup, segmentation and access filtering.
- Build, maintain and improve custom web applications for process control, maintenance tasks and auxiliary data modeling.
- Write and update clean, functional code utilizing HTML, PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax and basic C#.
- Assist in maintaining and upgrading complex PLC (Allen Bradley, Siemens, Toshiba) and HMI architectures (Rockwell FactoryTalk, Siemens WinCC, Proficy iFix)
- Troubleshooting electrical equipment, industrial networking, servers and virtual environments.
- Maintain working backups of all critical systems.
- Identify, design, and implement changes / upgrades which will increase the productivity or reliability of the process.
Qualifications
Required
- Excellent safety record and understanding of TCOS.
- Multitask and manage projects/maintenance outages.
- Database experience (MS SQL Server preferred).
- Experience with virtualization strategies like Hyper-V and VMware.
- Web development experience (HTML, JavaScript, PHP, jQuery, Ajax)
- PLC experience/expertise (Allen Bradley, Siemens required. Toshiba preferred).
- Experienced creating HMI interfaces for process control (Rockwell FactoryTalk, Siemens WinCC, Proficy iFix).
- Automation experience with the following: RSLogix, RSLinks, Step 7, TIA portal and other types of automation environments.
- Excellent communication, organizational, and documentation skills.
- Excellent computer skills (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS Visio, Visual Basic)
- Ability read/write Ladder Diagrams, Function Block Diagram, Structured Text, Instruction List.
- Well versed with reading electrical prints
- Willingness to work unscheduled hours/days. There could be times where remoting in would be necessary.
Preferred
- Bachelor’s Degree: Electrical Engineering/Automation Engineer/Computer Engineering, Science or similar experience.
- 3-5 years’ experience in metals/manufacturing industry.
Steel Dynamics, Inc., and all affiliated entities are equal opportunity employers.