Process Automation Engineer - Models

Job # EE23023
Job Title Process Automation Engineer – Models
Office Location Roanoke, VA
Business Function/Department Industrial Systems/Process Automation Models Engineering
Sales Territory, if applicable N/A
General Role Description
Develop, verify, and implement algorithms and transfer functions that define the electro-mechanical operation of industrial machinery, primarily metal rolling mills
Role Accountabilities
– Develop algorithms and transfer functions that define the electro-mechanical operation of industrial machinery, primarily metal rolling mills
– Verify these algorithms and transfer functions using computer simulation of mechanical processes and/or analysis of empirical data from operating machinery
– Use verified mathematical algorithms and transfer functions to design and implement software which generates control system setup and operating parameters that enable advanced automatic computer based control of industrial machinery
– Provide regular, accurate, and considered commissioning status reports to parties deemed appropriate to the situation
– Collaborate with project engineering team to ensure inter-operation of software modules into overall project
– Conduct and/or support simulation to verify satisfy project requirements
– Conduct and/or support simulation to verify the Human Machine Interface satisfies project requirements
– Support client witness of unit and system test as needed
– Recommend improvements to test procedures to better identify where software does not meet all project requirements for assigned scope of work
– Support commissioning activities at client facilities required and authorized
General Employee Accountabilities
– Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager
– Give manager best advice
– Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified
– Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager
– Exemplify Company Core Values:
Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment
– Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws
– Recommend viable improvements proactively
– Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes
Minimum Qualifications
– BS in physics, material science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering or equivalent via education and/or work experience
– 2 years’ experience in designing and/or commissioning process automation/models software in heavy industry, such as steelmaking, aluminum, or other process industries
– 2 years’ High-Level Programming Language, such as C++ and object-oriented programming experience using the Microsoft development environment
– Demonstrated problem solving skills
– Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills
– Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts
– Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility
– Proficiency in MS Office
– Availability to travel, domestically and internationally, approximately 25%, sometimes with limited notice
Preferred Qualifications
– MS in physics, material science, mechanical engineering, or electrical engineering
– Research project or thesis in the areas of mathematical modeling, finite element analysis, or thermodynamics
– Work experience as research assistant, intern, or co-op in the above areas
– Work experience designing and/or maintaining hot or cold rolling control systems or metal strip processing line control systems
– Experience in international field engineering assignments
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