Process Controls Engineer

Overview

Join Storion Energy and help us power the future of stored energy!

Are you a self-motivated individual looking to make a significant impact in a growing industry? Are you interested in the growing technological base of traditional automation with applied higher level programming languages? Storion Energy is hiring a Process Controls Engineer to pioneer our automation needs as we grow and expand manufacturing capabilities in the US. We are looking for someone who capitalizes on a hands‑on approach to learning new control methods, help develop our automation standards and practices and guide other engineers as we enable the US based production and adoption of long duration energy storage systems in the flow battery space.

Reporting through the manufacturing engineering team, you will directly affect the direction and development of our operations base. You will work with other chemical, electrical and mechanical engineers as we will bring a novel production process from lab scale to full operations and help lead the future expansion of deployed manufacturing sites. We expect a blend of traditional controls technology and hardware with the capabilities of higher-level programming languages.

As a small company, there are always opportunities to make a difference and grow. Storion has an engineering career progression ladder that allows engineers to progress in the organization in either an individual contributor or managerial role.

Read below for the formal description. Apply to learn more about our new projects for the upcoming year where you’ll play a key role in our manufacturing plants and other key initiatives.

• The Process Controls Engineer will be the go‑to person for new process improvement recommendations, controls designs, and critical troubleshooting events
• Take ownership of all the automation aspects of our equipment, including: development and support of controls for production, pilot, and laboratory systems.
• Develop new and modify existing programming in various control systems, including, but not exclusive to: PLC systems (Siemens preferred), Industrial Internet of Things , Lab Instrument systems such as Labview.
• Support existing applications that use Python and C++ programming languages.
• Build SCADA and MES infrastructure for the collection and monitoring of laboratory and production data, using Inductive Automation’s Ignition Platform.
• Develop plans and support implementation for control system hardware and software for new applications.
• Support & review controls cabinet design documentation for new applications.
• Improve operating efficiency on manufacturing equipment through control system implementation and automation
• Support the product engineering team by supporting test programming and data acquisition for laboratory systems.
• Take a hands‑on approach to improvements
• Generate and maintain proper documentation of the process development cycle and complete communication and training of others.
• Foster strong relationships with members of the product engineering team, operations team, and vendors
• Work at all levels across the organization
• Grow expertise in Automation, MES, Industry 4.0 and IIoT

• BS or greater in Chemical Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 3-5+ years of hands‑on automation experience in a manufacturing or process development environment
• Capability to work with and write scripted programming languages is required (Python experience preferred)
• Understanding of network communication protocols such as Ethernet
  
  IP, Profinet, and Modbus is required
• Knowledge and Experience with Inductive Automation’s Ignition SCADA platform is strongly preferred
• Ability to work with PLC hardware and software is required (Siemens is preferred) including capability to work with and write ladder logic and structured text programming languages
• Experience in panel building and field wiring is preferred
• Experience and familiarity with database query languages such as MSSQL and Postgres. Experience in database management is a plus
• Experience in HMI and/or Operator Interface programming and configuration, experience with IA’s Ignition…