Process Controls Engineer, Lithium Refinery

What To Expect
Tesla's in-house Lithium Refinery is located in the greater Corpus Christi area of Texas. This investment is critical to our mission to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy and represents our efforts to aggressively increase the supply of battery-grade lithium hydroxide available in North America.

As the Process Controls Engineer, you will work closely with the production and design teams to specify, configure, and optimize chemical production process control systems and equipment.  

What You'll Do

Develop and configure DCS and PLC logic and modify existing logic to optimize product quality, yield, throughput, process stability, and lower OpEx costs

Develop and configure new operator displays and update existing displays to improve overall usability, intuitive navigation, and operator effectiveness

Apply advanced regulatory control strategies and DCS-based model predictive control technology to solve complex process control issues

Work collaboratively with Operations, Process Engineers, and other Process Control Engineers to ensure that control strategies are functioning as designed and are achieving productivity and material quality targets

Troubleshoot process control issues and work with Operations and Maintenance teams to assist them in troubleshooting efforts

Own plant wide control loop tuning and equipment/unit optimization

Drive standardization, common approaches, and employ RAGAGEP across our Integrated Controls System assets. Close collaboration is expected with OT, IT, EH&S, and Reliability Engineering

What You'll Bring

7 years as a process controls engineer in a chemical process design or production environment, with demonstrated experience in production support and optimization

Experience participating in process hazard reviews and HAZOPs

Demonstrated experience configuring DCS advanced regulatory control using function block programming

Demonstrated excellence in programming Emerson DeltaV

Demonstrated experience developing operator displays and intuitive graphics navigation that conform to ASM consortium guidelines

Advanced proficiency with process loop tuning using proven methods

Benefits
Compensation and Benefits
Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction

Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits

Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution

Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA

Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits

Company paid Basic Life, AD&D

Short-term and long-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)

Employee Assistance Program

Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays

Back-up childcare and parenting support resources

Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance

Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs

Tesla Babies program

Commuter benefits

Employee discounts and perks program

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