Rolling Mill Automation Engineer

Montpelier - SS, Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America •

Montpelier, Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America •

Posted Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM

SSAB is one of the largest North American producers of steel plate and coil, serving many industrial markets including energy, construction, agriculture and transportation. SSAB operates five state of the art facilities strategically located in key regions across the U.S.
SSABhas nearly 1,200 highly skilled employees in the U.S. Jobs at SSAB range from machine operators and sales people to advanced engineers and corporate professionals in HR, finance and more. SSAB offers challenging careers and comprehensive benefit program designed to keep employees and their families healthy and secure.

Job purpose:

This position will be responsible for a variety of software engineering and maintenance as well process engineering and maintenance functions including analyzing process performance, evaluating necessary process changes, developing and designing process changes, managing the implementation of process improvements, maintaining all level 1 & level 1.5 hardware platforms.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Develop methods and practices that will improve the quality of products, expand the product mix and reduce manufacturing costs through specialized application and use of Automation technology.
• Design, develop and manage process-related level 1 systems, engineering and research projects with the objective of developing new methods and practices that will ultimately reduce production cost, improve yields and provide better product quality.
• Provide expert advice, system troubleshooting and direct hands-on support to the Maintenance/Operating Groups and Level 1.5 EMO’s in the Rolling Mill while ensuring compliance with established specifications and industrial standards. Maintain and continuously improve all the Level 1 related electrical systems.
• Provide Process Control Software expert advice, system troubleshooting and direct hands-on support to the Maintenance/Operating Group of the Rolling Mill /Finishing Area of the plant.
• Manage Supervisory Computer Systems (Level 1 & Level 1.5)
• Hardware Management
  • Perform time-based maintenance
  • Isolate and replace obsolete field components
  • Interface cabling with I/O devices
  • Monitor system performance (error detection and recovery)
• Software Management
  • Monitor applications for correct processing
  • Back-up computer operating system and its applications on various platforms, (Maintain Asset Centre server).
  • Analyse and troubleshoot operating system and application software
  • Perform maintenance programming
  • Configure system and application software
• Interface Management
  • Plan, design, develop, implement and maintain HMI applications
• Document Management
  • Generate historical documentation
  • Author “help” documents
  • Reverse engineer software specifications
• Support Operations
• Respond to Operator requests and problems
• Provide 24/7 response coverage
• Provide training on new software, system updates and control enhancements to the electrical EMO group.
• Provide expert advice, system troubleshooting and direct hands-on support to the Maintenance and Operating groups for the following specific functional areas and equipment types while ensuring compliance with established specifications and industrial standards
  • Reheat Furnace, Rolling Mill, and finishing process control systems.
  • Electrical systems, specifically Allen Bradley-brand equipment.
  • Other equipment that provides specialized man-machine interfaces, networking to business systems, connections to supplier networks.

Qualifications:
Education and Experience:

Required

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related field or equivalent technical training.
• Minimum five years’ experience working with Control Logix and other Rockwell operating systems.
• Possess the knowledge of process interactions between control layers and physical processes in a steel plate manufacturing facility.
• Exercise sound engineering and economic judgement and discretion regarding process control decision-making.
• Equipment and process knowledge including industrial control…