Plant Controls Engineer

Description

As a Plant Controls Engineer you work on projects to improve plant safety, capacity, efficiency, reliability, and work environment for operational employees, and provide Controls System support to operations. The Plant Controls Engineer will work closely with operations, maintenance, and other engineering disciplines at the sites in Utah, as well as corporate engineering and management.

This role will provide support for two plants: Orem and Nephi

• Collaborate with operations, maintenance and engineering teams.
• Prepare electrical & line drawings. Using CAD software (EPLAN).
• Selection and installation of hardware and development of software for control equipment and support of existing controls.
• Overseeing installation of equipment.
• Perform sizing calculations for inline instruments.
• Train and support operational and technical staff and provide documentation.
• Troubleshoot problems with processes and hardware.
• Create input/output (I/O) count and assignments, instrument loop diagrams, instrument datasheets and sizing, instrument uninterruptible power source (UPS) load requirements lists.
• Ensure project completion on-time and within budget by tracking all project activities and providing management reports showing task status on requests.
• Analyze control & electrical data and present findings.
• Occasional after-hours call answering and holiday coverage.
• Assist Manufacturing and Maintenance in the use and support of Electrical, Controls and other systems.
• Manufacturing Execution System expereince.
• Understanding and ensuring compliance with relevant code & regulations and quality standards.
• Design, develop, improve and maintain control systems that can automate processes, including safety systems.
• Ensuring that the control system process works safely and efficiently in accordance with specifications.
• Provides technical assistance testing, maintaining and modifying existing systems as needed by the plant.
• Develop, program anything that needs to be programmed for controls, optimize PLC and HMI programming, include all logic and control requirements to match all mechanical system features and specifications requirements.
• Participate in gathering and documenting plant requirements for Controls and Automation systems through interviews, documentation analysis and Workflow Process Mapping.

Requirements

• Networks, and industrial networking: Ethernet/IP, Controlnet, Devicenet.
• VFD (Variable Frequency Device), Servo expereince.
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• HMI Development, OPC, Alarms and Events, Datalogging, historical data.
• Machine, Control panel wiring, schematics, panel layouts.
• Excellent project management and planning skills.
• Electrical standards and NEC/NFPA.
• Travel approximately up to 25% of the time, depending on requirements.
• Allen Bradley Contrologix PLC Programming: Ladder, SFC, UDT, PID, AOI.
• 3 plus years of controls experience.

Benefits

CRH has a long and proud heritage. We are a collection of hundreds of family businesses, regional companies and large enterprises that together form the CRH family. CRH operates in a decentralized, diversified structure that allows you to work in a small company environment while having the career opportunities of a large international organization.

• Highly competitive base pay
• Comprehensive medical, dental and disability benefits programs
• Group retirement savings program
• Health and wellness programs

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance