Process Control Engineer

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Be part of it and shape your world.

About the Role:

We have a new opportunity for an experienced Process Control Engineer to join the Process Control team at our Wagerup Refinery! You are a part of a wider team responsible for developing, maintaining and supporting the control system from instrumentation through to information systems across our Refinery.

Reporting to the Senior Process Control Engineer, you will:


* Develop and maintain the software, provide troubleshooting and training assistance to our production and technical personnel.


* Be involved in all aspects of the extensive control system based on a Honeywell DCS, inclusive of basic control, advanced regulatory control and up to multivariable process control systems.

You will have a shared responsibility to:


* Grow and support the rest of the site control and information application teams


* If interested, cover the Senior Engineer responsibilities for leave and other times.


* Support existing control schemes, and be involved in project work that varies from small local requests to large scale capital projects which can involve multi disciplines and external resources.

The local site team is part of the wider Alcoa control team, which provides the opportunity to interact with a broad range of expertise allowing for sharing of knowledge and best practice transfer across refineries, across Australia, and around the world!

What’s on offer:


* Career development opportunities to pursue your passion


* Monthly Leisure Day


* Benefits allowance


* Performance related bonus (variable)


* 16 weeks paid parental leave scheme


* Paid annual volunteer hours


* Social and diversity focused engagement opportunities

What you can bring to the role:

To play a part in our ongoing success we are seeking someone with:


* An Electrical/Process Control/Chemical Engineering degree or equivalent


* Working knowledge in the delivery of process control services in alumina refining or other relevant heavy industry.


* Ability to influence across levels of an organisation, with the ability to think and execute innovatively.


* Ability to take a problem statement and transfer this into a well designed control scheme to meet the customer and plant requirements.


* High level of competence in technical computing, and a broad familiarity with software development protocols.


* Advanced process control experience (multivariable control systems), developing H...