Facilities Controls Engineer | PLC​/SCADA Application Developer

Texas Instruments (TI) is looking for an experienced Facilities Controls Enginee
r to join our team to support our PLC/SCADA development. As a Facilities Engineer at TI, you'll be directly responsible for building utility systems in support of a semiconductor wafer fab. TI Facilities operates over 150 different utility systems that include chemicals, gasses, variety of electrical systems, water systems, HVAC, waste, vacuum, and controls. These systems are designed to run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year without interruption, creating a state of the art manufacturing environment.

Facilities works closely with TI's manufacturing team to understand how the utility systems impact the process as well as how to reduce consumption.

Responsibilities include:

• Design, implement, and troubleshoot controls systems and instrumentation, including a variety of flow, pressure, temperature, level, pH, and water quality monitoring equipment
• Program and troubleshoot programmable logic controllers (PLCs), including PLC hardware (including I/O interface modules) and PLC programming software
• Program and troubleshoot Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems for monitoring facility systems
• Design, implement, and troubleshoot a secure and reliable industrial network to support communication between devices on the network (e.g. peer communication between PLCs and PLC communication with SCADA drivers)
• Assist with development and execution of the controls-related scope in facility expansion and sustaining projects (e.g. Process and Instrumentation Diagrams, Sequence of Operations, I/O lists, panel drawings, instrumentations lists, etc.)
• Understand industrial equipment & processes, their operating parameters, and make decisions (with engineering support) to improve or maintain the associated controls and instrumentation hardware & software
• Provide technical controls support for the 24-hour operations team
• Ensure projects and systems are compliant with applicable codes (e.g. National Electric Code, International Fire Code, etc.)
• Influence supplier performance via management and audits of work performed in the field
• Develop relationships and communicate with engineers across disciplines and at other TI sites to foster best practice sharing and communication

Texas Instruments will not sponsor job applicants for visas or work authorization for this position.