Job Purpose and Impact

The Automation Engineer will apply technical knowledge to design, develop and maintain overall governance on standards, application, gaps, solutions and measurements to increase production quality, efficiency and volume for the business. In this role, you will perform day to day activities related to instrumentation and automation engineering to enable projects and improve our capabilities by providing engineering support for the organization.

Key Accountabilities

• Apply general knowledge of principles, terms, and practices of automation engineering to support the design and build of safe and reliable operations.
• Coordinate and provide direct support and delivery of services for an operation.
• Execute and support automation engineering standards and deliverables in capital projects.
• Monitor and support progress for projects with low to medium levels of complexity and ensure appropriate resource allocations and portfolio prioritization.
• Implement, monitor and track audit control mechanisms within area of scope to track performance and provide actionable solutions that contribute to improvements.
• Support more senior team members to assess automation engineering development and application opportunities and further dissemination across common practice areas.
• Support, analyze and develop conclusions regarding areas of improvement and identify opportunities to improve performance and determine acceptable risk tolerance.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of two years of related work experience
• Other minimum qualifications may apply

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in engineering, preferable on automation, electronic or instrumentation
• Minimum 3 years programming experience, preferable Siemens PCS7.
• Good team work spirit and innovation initiative
• Good communication skills and bilingual competency
• English: good level oral and written
• Intermediate project management skills
• Strong technical and mathematical skills
• Demonstrated working knowledge of technical standards, principles, theories, concepts and techniques