Sr. Controls Engineer

At Oregon Steel Mills LLC, our strength starts with our people! As a team we collaborate to solve problems, contribute ideas and challenge each other to ensure growth and ultimately success for the business and our employees.

Job Description and Responsibilities

Oregon Steel Mills is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Controls Engineer to join our dynamic team in Portland, Oregon.

As a crucial member of our organization, you will play a key role in optimizing and automating our manufacturing processes.

The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong ability to apply engineering theory, data analysis and problem-solving techniques.

This role works in conjunction with the operations, quality, and engineering departments to improve safety, quality, and productivity to reduce costs wherever possible.



* Collaborate with operations personnel and the quality assurance department to gain a deep understanding of operational processes, our products, and how they are qualitatively measured


* Maintain and improve in-house software process models as well as third-party software process models no longer supported by vendors; monitor model performance via analysis of measured data


* Develop strategies to reduce defects, delays, and other missed opportunities


* Gather and analyze data to produce proof-of-concept models for process improvement, ensuring that the data recorded accurately represents the process


* Understand equipment limitations, collaborate with engineering personnel to continually improve equipment performance


* Develop strong vendor relationships in an effort to understand the equipment and software process models they provide


* Develop training tools to help team members across the organization gain a better understanding of the process


* Maintain all Level II supervisory systems hardware and software components, i.e., perform upgrades, apply patches, etc.


* Accountability of 24/7/365 mission critical services in manufacturing operations provided by the Level II supervisory systems

Requirements



* Bachelor’s Degree in Computer, Electrical, Manufacturing or Materials Science Engineering with an emphasis on process modelling, control theory and statistical analysis


* 10 years of experience, preferably in the steel industry (Rolling Mills) or manufacturing


* Strong mathematical background with experience in implementing various numerical methods


* Adaptive software process models experience and/or training


* Software development and support experience with DEC Fortran, DEC C programming languages on OpenVMS operating systems


* Software development and support experience with .NET programming languages on Windows OS


* Database knowledge, experienced with Microsoft SQL Server/T-SQL programming skills


* Familiarity with virtual environments, e.g., VMware, preferred


* Understanding Industrial Networking and topology, preferred


*  Able...