Electrical and Process Control Engineer

Company Description

Pixelle Specialty Solutions™ is the largest specialty paper company in North America, with fully integrated pulp and paper operations in Chillicothe, Ohio, Spring Grove, Pennsylvania, and a coating operation in Fremont, Ohio. Supported by an experienced product development team, Pixelle excels in designing customized solutions that help customers bring new products to market. With a long history of leadership in the paper industry, Pixelle delivers the most comprehensive portfolio of specialty papers to help you meet today’s challenging demands.

Job Description

Role:  The electrical and process control engineer develops and maintains control systems (DCS and PLC) for real-time, on-line control of production processes.  The incumbent works as a team with operations, maintenance, technical services, environmental, engineering and IT to improve manufacturing efficiencies and quality by applying control system knowledge to minimize variation and reduce costs.

Qualifications

Accountabilities

• Safety leadership and compliance for employees.
• Initiate and enforce all Company systems, policies, and procedures.
• Hold self, team members, and all in the facility accountable for their duties, behaviors, and actions.
• Maintain control systems by providing required configuration changes and routine system backups and by maintaining the necessary documentation and drawings.
• Work closely with operations, maintenance, and technical service staff with by providing control system optimization, troubleshooting, and technical support.
• Support Engineering and Maintenance in the design, configuration, checkout, training and startup of capital projects.
• Work with facility and contract technicians to accomplish the physical portion of tasks.
• Programming and support of drives/drive integration
• Work with third party service vendors
• Be available during off hour and weekend on-call rotations.
• Initiate and complete tasks with minimal direct supervision.
• Responsible for the successful completion of planned maintenance shutdowns (along with Maintenance Superintendent), including development of ghant charts and PM schedules.
• Must work closely with operations,  maintenance personnel, engineering, purchasing, and outside contractors on a daily basis
• Ensures that the predictive and preventative maintenance schedules are adhered to timely while also engaging with maintenance personnel to promote issue resolution and electrical reliability skills
• Enable the Electrical/Instrumentation crew to work safely through training, monitoring, continuous coaching and mentoring.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering discipline, with three (3) years’ experience preferred.   Equivalent experience will be considered.
• Experience implementing controls in a DeltaV control system, a Provox DCS, or equivalent system is desired.
• Experience with Programmable Logic Controllers such as RSLogix and ControlLogix is desired.
• Strong interpersonal / customer service skills, with the ability to work collaboratively at all levels within a manufacturing organization.
• Strong English language skills, including ability to clearly express complex issues.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Able to absorb new technology and processes quickly.
• Strong personal computer skills.
• Positive attitude, motivated, adaptable and focused.
• Candidate must be able to work well with others; teamwork is a daily activity.