Automation Engineer

Company Description

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all – while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs.  

Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold.  

Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland. 

Job Description

To design, implement, commission, and support the operation of distributed process control systems (DCS) on continuous and batch chemical processes. To develop process control strategies, system hardware and software specifications in support of our customer requirements. To help to support the Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) and the associated functions and safety lifecycle.

Duties:

• Support the design, installation and operation of the computer systems that control the various production processes.
• Support production to achieve volume, cost, safety, and quality requirements.
• Support process hazard analyses and system design reviews to ensure safe operations.
• Ability to develop cohesive plans and approaches from disparate customer input and respond to issues from a variety of sources.
• Work with cross-functional project teams to deploy new capital projects.
• Ability to work independently to meet aggressive schedules.
• Contribute ideas and solutions to advance automation group objectives.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree (Either chemical or electrical).
• A minimum of ten (10) years’ experience with Controls or SCADA systems.
• Experience with Emerson DeltaV, Yokogawa Centum, Rockwell Automation and/or Aveva (Wonderware).
• Knowledge of bus technologies, such as Foundation Fieldbus, ASI-bus, and/or Profibus is preferred.
• Experience with Yokogawa Centum VP Batch and / or Emerson DeltaV Batch configuration a plus.
• Experience with Safety Instrument Systems and Safety Instrumented Functions is a plus.
• Experience with Safety Instrument Systems and Safety Instrumented Function design/support is a plus.

Additional Information

What We Offer: 

• A culture that celebrates diversity & inclusion, promotes professional development, and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members. Offers flexible work options to support your work and personal needs. 
• Full Benefit Package (Medical, Dental & Vision) that starts your first day.  
• 401k plan with company match, Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings Contribution. 
• Paid Vacation, Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Education Assistance, Wellness Programs, Corporate Discounts, among other benefits. 

Syngenta has been ranked as a top employer by Science Journal. 
Learn more about our team and our mission here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVCN_51GbNI 

Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. 

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