NSBC Level II Automation Engineer

Who We Are:

Nucor is the Nations largest steel producer and a Fortune 100 company. Nucor Steel Berkeley is one of Nucor Corporations many divisions that manufacture steel and steel products. Our culture is centered around continuous growth safety and sustainability. With a firm commitment to our team members and a variety of benefits and performance incentives its easy to see why Nucor has been voted Americas best employers.

What We Have to Offer

Nucor offers a competitive salary on the job training a unique focus on growth and development 401-k match profit sharing a return on assets bonus and several career paths for growth opportunities within the organization.

Basic Job Functions:

The Process Automation Engineer will work alongside the maintenance and operations teams to ensure the safe and efficient operation of the plant. While working as part of the process automation team the engineer will lead by example with respect to safety reliability quality costs process improvement and project management. The engineer will be responsible for the level 2 automation systems and ensure the optimum performance of equipment for plant operations through continual improvement initiatives. This role requires availability for scheduled and unscheduled overtime including nights holidays and weekends.

The level 2 distinction is in reference to the automation system architecture (see ISA-95 or Purdue hierarchy of control) and is not indicative of seniority or degree of responsibility. The level 2 systems at Nucor Steel Berkeley will consist of a wide variety of applications running on a mix of physical and virtual machines using various programming languages. These applications will store and transfer process data utilizing databases message queue and direct message communication generate product setups using physics-based models perform product setup optimizations and many other tasks. The engineer should be familiar with some of the above and possess enough working knowledge with different computer communication protocols to troubleshoot and implement system interfaces if needed. The engineer should not only be able to understand the underlying technology making up the level 2 system but also be willing and able to learn the sheet steel making process to aid in analyzing and solving process problems.

Safety is the most important part of all jobs within Nucor; therefore candidates must be able to demonstrate the ability to initiate lead and uphold safety policies practices procedures and housekeeping standards at all times.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Four-year degree in Engineering/Computer Science or related field and/or equivalent experience
• Demonstrable experience or ability to troubleshoot modify and write software to control a function or system

Preferred Qualifications:

• Two years of experience in industrial process control/automation and/or related education
• Industrial process control/automation equipment upgrade experience
• Experience working in a heavy industrial environment
• Working knowledge of computer administration (e.g. Windows Linux)
• Working knowledge with virtual machines (e.g. VMWare)
• Experience working on Level 2 automation control systems (e.g. databases setup models C/C/C# applications front and back-end Web development)
• Experience building maintaining and utilizing databases (e.g. SQL)
• Working knowledge and experience with networking and communication technologies (e.g. Ethernet fiber switching routing)