Integration Engineer

REPORTS TO: Manager, Automation, OT Networks and Reliability Engineering

FLSA STATUS: Exempt

SUPERVISES: N/A

Benefits

• Salary range $70,000 to $120,000 base
• High deductible medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance, including spouse and children (modest payroll deductions)
• 10 paid holidays per year
• Vacation (2-4 weeks depending on experience)
• Supplemental leave (used in conjunction with Washington Paid Family & Medical Leave)
• 401K with matching company funds
• Quarterly bonus structure
• Tuition reimbursement

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Integration Engineer (IE) plays a pivotal role in developing new systems, improving existing systems, and supporting mill operations. As a member of the Automation Team, the IE leads and participates in the design, planning, and execution of new control systems and the integration of new equipment and systems into the mill. Additionally, the IE actively contributes to Continuous Improvement initiatives by implementing projects, programming enhancements, and modernizing hardware. The IE serves as a subject matter expert in the mill's control systems, troubleshooting complex issues, diagnosing system interactions, and providing technical guidance on a wide range of components, from sensors to higher-level systems.

This position requires the ability to perform and multi-task in an ever-changing environment.

About Kaiser Aluminum: Talented people join our team because we are a company passionate about environmental sustainability, employee growth, contributing back to our communities and championing a diverse and inclusive culture. We are strongly committed to expanding inclusion, equity, and diversity - how we hire, develop, and inspire our diverse team members that reflects and relates to the increasingly multicultural community.

Requirements:

EDUCATION

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent automation relevant degree, such as Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, automation focused Mechanical Engineering, or Mechatronics engineering.

EXPERIENCE

This individual will possess:

Extensive Rockwell Automation/Allen-Bradley Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) experience/abilities, including:

• Control System Design: The individual should be able to design/develop/enhance new/existing heavy industrial production equipment systems. The hardware design elements include specification, ordering, configuring, commissioning, and troubleshooting of Allen-Bradley PLCs from PLC5 to current generation ControlLogix, CompactLogix, and GuardLogix. The software design elements include creating programs following standards and organizing and structuring programs, tasks, routines, tags, and UDTs. Creating, modifying, and maintaining PLC logic in structured text, sequential function charts, and ladder logic.
• PLC Code Development: The individual should be able to develop PLC logic from the text of a functional description, legacy logic, or stakeholder descriptions and create/edit/maintain/document logic to achieve safety, quality, production, reliability/supportability objects.
• Extensive Wonderware InTouch Human Machine Interface and Inductive Automation Ignition experience/abilities, including:
• Operator Interface Design from customer description or existing system, be able to design/develop/enhance new/current systems of heavy industrial production equipment. The hardware design elements include specification, ordering, configuring, commissioning, and troubleshooting the hardware necessary to support operator interfaces, including stand-alone industrial computers, thin-clients, Zero Clients, RDP Clients, and legacy systems,
• HMI Code Development from the text of a functional description, legacy logic, or stakeholder description. Ability to create/edit/maintain/document logic to achieve safety, quality, production, reliability/supportability objects. Experience and competency with creating/editing/maintaining/documenting AVEVA/Archestra/Wonderware InTouch HMI versions 9.5 to 2020.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

This individual will:

• Be energetic, disciplined, and focused on team-building operational organization.
• Have well-developed interpersonal and business partnering skills, with the ability to quickly adapt to, be accepted by, and interrelate with the organization at all levels.
• Be willing to work flexible hours.
• Have high interpersonal, communication, and management skills and the ability to make quick decisions.
• Be self-motivated, self-learning, and willing to educate themselves and others in a changing environment.

PERFORMANCE FACTORS

• Attendance and Dependability: The employee can be depended on to report to work at the scheduled time and is seldom absent from work. The employee can be relied upon to complete work promptly, accurately, and thoroughly and is conscientious about assignments.
• Communication and Contact: The employee communicates effectively verbally and in writing with superiors, colleagues, and individuals inside and outside the Company.
• Relationships with Others: The employee works effectively and relates well with others, including superiors, colleagues, and individuals inside and outside the Company. The employee exhibits a professional manner in dealing with others and works to maintain constructive working relationships.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Approximately 75% of the job function is performed in an office setting requiring normal safety precautions. 25% of the job function is required in the plant. There is exposure to operating machinery and a manufacturing environment.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• This position requires performing tasks on a computer.
• There will be periods of walking and standing.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls and climb or balance.
• The employee is occasionally required to reach with arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk and hear.
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Must comply with all safety, quality and environmental regulations.