Process Controls Engineer Jobs

What To Expect
As Tesla continues to vertically integrate our operations, Tesla’s Materials Engineering group is looking for a highly motivated Senior Process Controls Engineer to work on a critical challenge facing the world’s energy transition – expanding production of cathode materials and cathode raw material refining systems.  
As a process controls engineer, you will work closely with the process development and design teams to deploy first-of-a-kind chemical production processes and equipment, designing new processing facilities to produce high purity battery materials, supporting projects from concept through design, install, integration, ramp, and handover to the operations team.  
What You’ll Do

• Work closely with the process design teams to develop process control narratives and process and instrumentation diagrams to ensure that process systems will operate safely and reliably. 
• Support operations teams as needed to achieve productivity and material quality targets on pilot and commercial scale systems. 
• Develop plant-wide supervisory systems to minimize unplanned downtime and centralize plant performance monitoring. 
• Develop control system architecture for greenfield chemical processing facilities and manage project execution, leveraging a combination of in-house and 3rd party resources. 
• Create and maintain I/O lists and lead the selection of process critical instrumentation 

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years as a process controls engineer in a chemical process design or production environment, with demonstrated experience in the execution of controls projects from concept development through commissioning and ramp-up.  
• Experience building process flow diagrams (PFDs), process & instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), developing process control narratives, and building I/O lists for greenfield or brownfield capital projects, and working closely with process engineers to design and implement control systems to ensure safe and efficient operation of complex chemical process systems.  
• Working knowledge of Beckhoff PLCs, Siemens PLCs, Allen Bradley PLCs, Emerson DeltaV DCS and SIS and/or Honeywell Experion or Safety Manager Controls Systems. 
• Washing, leaching, filtration, mechanical/thermal concentration, precipitation, and crystallization processes 
• Bulk solids handling and powder processing systems, including powder blending, powder/spray coatings, crushing/milling, mechanical sorting/sieving/separation 
• High Purity production facilities (specialty chemicals, food, pharmaceuticals) 
• Evidence of exceptional ability, including a strong understanding of engineering fundamentals and demonstrated ability to leverage this understanding to solve challenging technical problems.   
• Developing conceptual designs and cost studies as necessary to determine the most robust, efficient approach to solving engineering tasks at hand.
• Understanding of Process Controls fundamentals including feedback control, feedforward, cascade, ratio, decoupling, and tuning.
• Experience with the following industries and production environments: 
• Experience in Functional Safety; SIS Systems, Cause & Effects (C&E), SIL Calcs, Safety Requirement Standards (SRS).
• High temperature thermal processing/calcining systems 
• Experience participating in process hazard analysis (PHA) reviews and HazOps. 

Benefits
Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

Aetna PPO and HSA plans > 2 medical plan options with $0 payroll deduction

Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits

Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution

Company Paid (Health Savings Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Aetna medical plan with HSA

Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

LGBTQ+ care concierge services

401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits

Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions), and Paid Holidays

Back-up childcare and parenting support resources

Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance

Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs

Tesla Babies program

Commuter benefits

Employee discounts and perks program

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