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.
