Process Control Engineer

Process Control Engineer
Weir Minerals
Malmo, Santiago
Hybrid

Purpose of Role:

The Process Control Engineer provides the required expertise in process control and industrial automation to understand, analyse and implement optimisation applications within the Minerals processing environment to improve overall efficiency.

Working in collaboration with data scientists, process engineers, metallurgists and control specialists globally, this position is part of the process optimisation team supporting the development of end-to-end applications. This includes working with the customer to shape and deliver solutions during testing, validation and QA process, and collecting customer feedback to drive and deliver improvements.

As part of an end-to-end process, this role is intended to work in partnership with cloud applications and edge/cloud architecture team for implementation workstreams. Also will be interacting with Product Strategy, local offices engineering staff and Weir product line managers.

Why choose Weir:
Be part of a global organization dedicated to building a better future: At Weir, the growing world depends on us. It depends on us constantly reinventing, quickly adapting and continually finding better, faster, more sustainable ways to access the resources it needs to thrive. And it depends on each of us doing the best work of our lives. It’s a big challenge – but it is exciting.

An opportunity to g row your own way: Everything moves fast in the dynamic world of Weir. This creates opportunities for us to take on new challenges, explore new areas, learn, progress and excel. Best of all, there is no set path that our people must take. Instead, everyone is given the support and freedom to tailor-make their own career and do the best work of their lives.

Feel empowered to be yourself and belong: Weir is a welcoming, inclusive place, where each individual’s contribution is recognized and all employees are encouraged to innovate, collaborate and be themselves. We continually focus on people and their wellbeing. We believe in fairness and choose to be honest, transparent and authentic in everything we do.

Key Responsibilities:

• Overall responsibility for control strategies implementation and testing according to applications roadmap.

• Contribute to the testing and QA frameworks implementation including dynamic simulation.

• Maintain strong case documentation and follow-up to ensure that technical recommendations effectively resolve customer issues.

• Develop commissioning procedures for the developed applications working alongside operations team targeting customer sign off.

• Collaborate on the definition of cloud and edge interfacing systems with existing customer architecture for data interaction.

• Support the development of automation proof of concepts.

• Safety First: Demonstrate 100% commitment to our zero harm behaviors in support of our drive towards developing a world class safety culture.

Job Knowledge/Education and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in engineering preferably in Electrical, Electronics or Control Systems Engineering.

• 7+ years of experience in automation and process control applied to mining and metals sectors including PLC/DCS programming/configuration or commissioning.

• Experience working on commissioning or maintenance of advanced process control solutions for mining sites in DCS or APC systems is considered a plus.

• Understanding digital technologies and their applications to smart products and factories is preferred. The list includes but is not limited to intelligent control, AI, ML/DL, cognitive solutions, digital twins, etc.

Founded in 1871, Weir is a world leading engineering business with a purpose to make mining operations smarter, more efficient and sustainable. Thanks to Weir’s technology, our customers can produce essential metals and minerals using less energy, water and waste at lower cost. With the increasing need for metals and minerals for climate change solutions, Weir colleagues are playing their part in powering a low carbon future. We are a global family of 11,000 uniquely talented people in over 60 counties, inspiring each other to do the best work of our lives.

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