Automation Engineer

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.