Process Controls Engineer, Lithium Refinery - Tesla Motors : Job Details

Tesla's in-house Lithium Refinery is located in the greater Corpus Christi area of Texas. This investment is critical to our mission to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy and represents our efforts to aggressively increase the supply of battery-grade lithium hydroxide available in North America.

As the Process Controls Engineer, you will?work closely with the production and design teams to specify, configure, and optimize chemical production process control systems and equipment.

* Develop and configure DCS and PLC logic and modify existing logic to optimize product quality, yield, throughput, process stability, and lower OpEx costs

* Develop and configure new operator displays and update existing displays to improve overall usability, intuitive navigation, and operator effectiveness

* Apply advanced regulatory control strategies and DCS-based model predictive control technology to solve complex process control issues

* Work collaboratively with Operations, Process Engineers, and other Process Control Engineers to ensure that control strategies are functioning as designed and are achieving?productivity and material quality targets

* Troubleshoot process control issues and work with Operations and Maintenance teams to assist them in troubleshooting efforts

* Own plant wide control loop tuning and equipment/unit optimization

* Drive standardization, common approaches, and employ RAGAGEP across our Integrated Controls System assets. Close collaboration is expected with OT, IT, EH&S, and Reliability Engineering

* 3+ years?as a process controls engineer in a?chemical?process design or?production environment,?with demonstrated?experience in the execution

* Experience?participating in?process hazard reviews and?HAZOPs

* Demonstrated experience configuring DCS advanced regulatory control using function block programming

* Demonstrated experience programming Emerson DeltaV

* Demonstrated experience developing operator displays and intuitive graphics navigation that conform to ASM consortium guidelines

* Advanced proficiency with process loop tuning using proven methods