Facilities Engineer - Controls Engineer

Controls Engineer Job Description

The Controls Engineer will develop discipline specific engineering designs and develops drawings, specifications, and scope of work documents for design and construction of new R&D Lab facilities, new process equipment installations, and existing facility system alterations.   You will plan facilities changes and production equipment layouts, working toward efficiency and economy of operation, maximum use of facilities and equipment, and compliance with laws and regulations.  You are responsible to review and estimate design costs including equipment, installation, labor, materials, preparation, and other related costs. Develops design engineering criteria and performance specifications required to meet unique process equipment and facility systems operating requirements and building safety codes. Leads the discipline specific systems operations and maintenance activities to ensure safe and efficient operation.

Responsibilities

• Technical lead for design, construction, commissioning, system acceptance testing, and operations of critical facilities control systems.  
• Integrate critical facilities and life safety systems into building management system (BMS) for operational visibility, alarms and trends.
• Experienced designing process flow diagrams, P&IDs, single line diagrams, cable and conduit schedules, instrumentation and control data sheets, I/O lists and controls narratives is a plus. 
• Leads repairs, maintenance, calibrations and spare parts programs.
• Ensures new facilities and new process tool installation designs incorporate the latest controls and instrumentation standards and best practices.
• Ensure that the controls vendors are coordinated with Lam Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical and Electrical) for proper delivery and implementation for controls on infrastructure projects.
• Maintain control system infrastructure capacity to meet future demands.
• Create standard operating documents for operation reference, train facilities technicians/outside service providers. Perform annual updates of SOPs and refresher trainings.
• Create design and operational FMEA’s to identify failure modes and build a robust control system.
• Work on continuous improvement projects to improve control system reliability and efficiency.
• Attend Weekly Operations meetings with R&D Lab stakeholders.
• Manage outsourced service providers to ensure work is completed as scheduled and incident action items follow-up is completed within agreed upon durations.
• Attends bi-weekly Site Incident Prevention Planning (SIPP) meetings and provide technical review/approval, including analysis of the risk assessment ratings (RAR) assigned to each SIPP – determine proper value of each RAR and guide the team to manage the risk to an acceptable level that maintains safety and schedules.
• Support startup and commissioning of all process tool installations and facilities expansion projects
• Support facilities shutdown projects and activities.
• Flexibility to travel periodically both foreign and domestic to support global Lam projects

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical/Controls or Mechanical Engineering or Computer Science with minimum 5 years of semiconductor industry experience in a facility controls and instrumentation role.  A candidate with a technical degree/certificate plus 10 years of PLC programming experience within a continuous process or manufacturing environment will also be considered.
• Demonstrated responsibility for developing industrial controls and facility controls designs 
• Industry experience in one or all of the following areas; specifying industrial controls hardware and develop wiring diagrams for supervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCADA), develop control system software in PLC ladder logic, function block, structured text and HMI programming and troubleshooting of the SCADA systems.
• Experience with the start-up and commissioning of control hardware and software systems (systems, integration, instrumentation callout, panel layout and construction)
• Experience with Allen Bradley PLC hardware/software.  ControlLogix PLC programming experience developing new programs and troubleshooting existing programs.
• Ability to program and troubleshoot at least two commercially available industrial control system HMI software platforms. (Wonderware InTouch, GE Cimplicity, GE iFix, Rockwell Factory Talk, Ignition, ALC, Delta)
• Experience configuring and troubleshooting networking devices such as industrial Ethernet switches, gateways and OPC servers.  Configuring and troubleshooting industrial protocols (Common Industrial Protocol - ControlNet, DeviceNet, EtherNet/IP, Modbus RTU and TCP/IP, BACnet, Profinet, Profibus, Foundation Fieldbus and HART Protocol)
• Desired working knowledge of firefighting, toxic gas monitoring design, experience designing and operating Fire Life Safety Systems (FLSS) including Fire Protection /fire sprinklers, fire alarm/fire detection and toxic gas monitoring systems (TGMS), experienced reviewing fire alarm programming and signaling needed to meet applicable NFPA and local fire code, experience working with Honeywell Gas Detection (Vertex, ACM150, XCD Flammable Detection) programming, alarming, and signaling.

Our Commitment

We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.

Lam Research ("Lam" or the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer. Lam is committed to and reaffirms support of equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination in employment policies, practices and procedures on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. It is the Company's intention to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees.

Lam offers a variety of work location models based on the needs of each role. Our hybrid roles combine the benefits of on-site collaboration with colleagues and the flexibility to work remotely and fall into two categories – On-site Flex and Virtual Flex. ‘On-site Flex’ you’ll work 3+ days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, with the opportunity to work remotely for the balance of the week. ‘Virtual Flex’ you’ll work 1-2 days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, and remotely the rest of the time.