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Job # EE25177 Job Title Process Automation Engineer – Models Office Location Roanoke, VA preferred Business Function/Department Industrial Systems Sales Territory, if applicable General Role Description Develop, verify, and implement algorithms and transfer functions that define the electro-mechanical operation of industrial machinery, primarily metal rolling mills Role Accountabilities

• Develop algorithms and transfer functions that define the electro-mechanical operation of industrial machinery, primarily metal rolling mills

• Verify these algorithms and transfer functions using computer simulation of mechanical processes and/or analysis of empirical data from operating machinery

• Use verified mathematical algorithms and transfer functions to design and implement software which generates control system setup and operating parameters that enable advanced automatic computer based control of industrial machinery

• Provide regular, accurate, and considered commissioning status reports to parties deemed appropriate to the situation

• Collaborate with project engineering team to ensure inter-operation of software modules into overall project

• Conduct and/or support simulation to verify the software modules satisfy project requirements

• Conduct and/or support simulation to verify the Human Machine Interface satisfies project requirements

• Support client witness of unit and system test as needed

• Recommend improvements to test procedures to better identify where software does not meet all project requirements for assigned scope of work

• Support commissioning activities at client facilities required and authorized

• General Employee Accountabilities

• Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager

• Give manager best advice

• Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified

• Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager

• Exemplify Company Core Values: Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment

• Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws

• Recommend viable improvements proactively

• Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes

• Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering with control automation coursework, computer engineering, materials science, physics or related field or equivalent via education and/or work experience

• 2 years’ experience in designing and/or commissioning process automation/models software in heavy industry, such as steelmaking, aluminum, or other process industries

• 2 years’ High-Level Programming Language, such as C++ and object-oriented programming experience using the Microsoft development environment

• Demonstrated problem solving skills

• Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills

• Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts

• Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility

• Proficiency in MS Office

• Availability to travel, domestically and internationally, approximately 25%, sometimes with limited notice

• Preferred Qualifications

• MS in physics, material science, mechanical engineering, or electrical engineering

• Research project or thesis in the areas of mathematical modeling, finite element analysis, or thermodynamics

• Work experience as research assistant, intern, or co-op in the above areas

• Work experience designing and/or maintaining hot or cold rolling control systems or metal strip processing line control systems

• Experience in international field engineering assignments

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