Senior Process Automation Engineer

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About you and this role

TES Process Automation Packaging & Specialty Plastics Business Focused Team is seeking a highly motivated Senior Process Automation Engineer, supporting our P&SP technologies globally.   The location of this role is Tarragona, Spain.

As the new Senior Process Automation Engineer, you will join the highly motivated skilled team working with challenging process automation solutions locally and globally in North and South America, and Europe. The Polyethylene business is one of the largest value creators in The Dow Chemical Company and continues expanding production facilities globally.  The Process Automation team is one of the key contributors for supporting the business growth and our work is highly recognized by the business.

As Senior Process Automation Engineer, you will serve as a technical resource and process automation lead for small to large capital and improvement projects regionally and/or globally. We are looking for someone who can apply process automation skills, knowledge, and experience and in collaboration with other teams, including engineering, operations, maintenance, R&D, logistics, analytical, etc.

Responsibilities

• Support Polyethylene projects, improving the process automation performance, including improvement projects, alarm management, control loop performance and Management of Change implementation.
• Program control applications for various distributed control systems. Write simulation applications in order to verify functionality of the control program and for training plant operators.
• Develop, test, and commission Process Automation software and operator interface software to meet design criteria, utilizing the Process Automation Work Process.
• Collaborate with engineering department and P&SP business process automation resources to design and execute projects. Apply Global Project Methodology (GPM) and Process Automation Work Process Discipline.
• Drive project execution within your discipline. Ensure that the project scope is well defined and meets the business needs in a cost-effective manner.  Participate in project commissioning and startup activities, including tuning of control loops.
• Obtain basic knowledge of unit operations and Chemical Engineering fundamentals.
• Be a global project team member and design/deliver Process Automation strategies and control code by applying plant knowledge, work-process discipline knowledge.
• Participate regularly on multiple-function and multi-national teams. Utilize negotiating skills to resolve issues successfully to a win-win solution, and effectively resolve conflicts in area of responsibility.

Qualifications

• A minimum of a bachelor's degree.
• Minimum of 3-years’ experience in process automation and in ABB 800xA process control platform.
• Must be willing and able to travel up to 10% annually (both domestic and/or internationally).
• Fluent in English.

Preferred Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical, mechanical, electrical engineering or equivalent is preferred.
• Minimum of 3-years’ experience in engineering, manufacturing, or related experience.
• Experience in Packaging & Specialty Plastics manufacturing technologies. Low Density Polyethylene/Catalyst is preferred.
• State Based Control experience.

Additional notes

• This position does not offer domestic relocation assistance

Benefits – What Dow offers you 

We invest in you. 

Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career.  You bring your background, talent and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.  

Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee: 

• Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives. 
• Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental and emotional well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it. 
• Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals. 
• Become a Dow shareholder through various employee stock programs.
• Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building. 
• Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs. 
• Global Paid Time Off (PTO) policies:
  • Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).  
  • ​Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.  
  • Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group’s (ERG) participation. 

Join our team, we can make a difference together. 

About Dow

Dow (NYSE: DOW) is one of the world’s leading materials science companies, serving customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Our global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation, leading business positions and commitment to sustainability enable us to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. We operate manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employ approximately 35,900 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $45 billion in 2023. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. ​​​​Learn more about us and our ambition to be the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world by visiting www.dow.com.

As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Dow is committed to equal opportunities in employment.  We encourage every employee to bring their whole self to work each day to not only deliver more value, but also have a more fulfilling career. Further information regarding Dow's equal opportunities is available on www.dow.com.