Industrial Automation Engineer - CO (BF0022)
Charm Industrial - Fort Lupton, CO
posted about 11 hours ago
About the position
As a Controls and Automation Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing automation vital to supporting thousands of pyrolyzers, as we scale-up. You will be building automation that enables our novel electromechanical equipment to put more carbon underground as effectively as possible! If you love understanding new processes, building automation from the ground up to perfect those processes, and working alongside a cross-functional group of highly motivated engineers, this role is for you. We expect you to not only write fully functional code, but we expect you to co-create automation solutions to achieve our climate goals. Those solutions could include better HMIs, new SCADA systems to monitor and control more of our plant from one central location and making visualizations of our key data. This position will be hands-on with hardware but will also involve software development under our GitHub codebase using common industrial automation languages. You will learn about our operations and R&D equipment alike in order to develop, implement, test, and support novel control systems. You will determine the way our operators interact with the equipment through HMI design, gathering feedback and pain points and turning those into design changes. You'll eagerly look at all manual processes of our operations team as opportunities for better automation systems, and work to implement those to enable our mission. This role reports to our Automation Engineering Manager under the engineering team! Join us and play a critical part in hitting our goal of gigatons of carbon removal and prevention of catastrophic climate effects!
Responsibilities
- Support the ability to manage fleets of pyrolyzers
- Make software updates in support of new sensors and automation
- Conceptualize, implement, and validate automation software solutions
- Own the design of intuitive Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs)
- Integrate SCADA across the entire plant
- Create dashboards to visualize key data for stakeholders
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to pinpoint critical processes
Requirements
- 4+ years experience programming PLCs and HMIs in a similar industry
- Strong understanding of protocols such as Modbus, E/IP, RS485 and OPC-UA
- History of designing & building HMI user interfaces
- Practical experience using SCADA systems to bring-up industrial machines
- Experience designing and deploying PLC software adhering to IEC61131-3 Standard
- Programming skills in Structured Text (ST), Function Block Diagram (FBD), Ladder Logic (LD) and Python
- Strong leadership skills for fast-paced projects
- Demonstrated experience incorporating safety elements in PLC design
- Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree required
Nice-to-haves
- Experience programming in Codesys
- Experience with electrical design & schematics
- Familiarity with Linux environment & SaaS tools
- Prior experience with Ignition SCADA, especially within the Vision Module
Benefits
- Stock options
- Health benefits (medical, dental, vision)
- Traditional and Roth 401(k) with a 50% match on contributions up to 6%
- Paid time off, including parental leave
- A yearly professional development stipend
- Healthy snacks and lunches for onsite employees
- A chance to pivot into a role in climate!
