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Your Job

Our Gypsum Business is hiring a Controls Engineer at the Sweetwater, Texas facility.

The Process Control Engineer will provide technical expertise and project engineering as required to support the facility's execution plan and operations.

The Control Engineer will be responsible for the facility's Instrumentation and Controls project development, design, procurement, construction, and maintenance.

The role will have direct impact on safety, reliability, cost reduction, and process improvement at the assigned facility.

The successful candidate will be provided a $15,000 signing bonus after starting the new role.

External candidates and internal Koch company employees moving to the new location when hired are considered eligible.

Our Team

At Georgia-Pacific, we don't believe that a job is just simply a job.

We see each role as a career and a way to advance your skills to not only better your life but the community as well.

What You Will Do



* Implement, design, and configure advanced process control strategies.

Maintain functional design specifications for process control systems.


* Develop engineering and capital cost estimates for assigned projects.


* Support process operations by troubleshooting installed systems to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of these systems.


* Act as a project resource in the installation of new instrumentation or control/automation systems.


* Partner with corporate teams to implement new technologies that support advanced manufacturing.


* Support of safety program both by implementing automation systems solutions and through observation.


* Work closely with production personnel to identify opportunities and solve problems.


* Develop engineering and capital cost estimates for assigned projects.


* Provide design documentation sufficient for construction, operations, and maintenance.


* Design, program, modify, and maintain PLC and HMI systems.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)



* Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Process Control, Chemical or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience.


* Experience in Industrial Control Systems (PLCs and Motor Controls).


* Experience in Automation or Process Control



* PLC programming


* AC & DC motor control experience, including drives.


* Process Control Networking


* HMI/SCADA Maintenance and Design

Experience in Control System documentation using MS Office and AutoCAD.

What Will Put You Ahead



* Industrial electrical knowledge, including both power (480VAC) and control circuits.


* Server and PC knowledge, both Windows and Linux.


* Prior experience in a plant maintenance department.


* Preferred platform and standards: Rockwell Studio 5000 and legacy platforms (RS Logix 5, 500), Ignition SCADA, Software, GE Proficy iFix, and FactoryTalk View, Rockwell E300/E200, Powerflex and Kinetix drives, ControlLogix, GuardLogix.

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