Controls Engineering Manager
On-siteMesa, Arizona, United States
Job Summary
Lead the Controls Engineering team supporting a 24/7 manufacturing operation by developing tools to reduce unscheduled downtime and improving system reliability. Oversee automation standards, PLC and SCADA programming, historian systems, and industrial networking while administering the plant-wide PI Historian system. Provide troubleshooting support for ongoing operations, including callouts and remote diagnostics, and lead capital project activities with budget management. Ensure process controls infrastructure meets site and regulatory requirements and interface with vendors to document information in Mesa CMMP systems. Manage a team of engineers with expertise in hazardous locations and process automation within a continuous production environment.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering or Automation Engineering
- Professional Engineer (PE) license
- Minimum of 10 years of industrial controls engineering experience in a 24/7 manufacturing environment
- Experience in chemical manufacturing
- Minimum 5 years of leadership or supervisory experience managing engineering teams
- Strong project management and capital project execution experience
- In-depth, hands-on knowledge and experience with complex instrumentation and controls systems
- Thorough understanding of Foundation Field Bus protocol systems and infrastructure
- Experience with design and deployment of SCADA systems architecture
- Solid background in controls systems troubleshooting and problem-solving
- Expert knowledge and experience to provide technical guidance in support of operational objectives
- On-call support
- Occasional after-hours and weekend work during production outages, maintenance activities, and capital project commissioning
- Resilience - Adapting well in the face of workplace stressors, the ability to work effectively and efficiently in high stress and conflict situations, the ability to remain poised under all circumstances, the ability to maintain regular attendance and be punctual
- Communication - The ability to successfully and professionally express and exchange ideas and meanings with all levels of employees in the organization, the ability to interact appropriately with a variety of individuals including customers/clients, the ability to work as an integral part of a team, ability to interact effectively with people in a positive manner that engenders confidence and trust
- Reasoning and decision-making - The ability to understand, remember and follow verbal and written instructions, the ability to reason logically and make sound decisions
- Comprehension - The ability to complete tasks without direct supervision, the ability to simultaneously address multiple complete problems
- Organizational skills - Ability to multitask without loss of efficiency or accuracy, the ability to work and sustain attention with distractions and interruptions, the ability to perform in situations requiring speed, deadlines or productivity quotas
Desired Qualifications
- General knowledge of SAP
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