Specialist Control Systems Engineer | FIFO | Jimblebar
BHP
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About the Role
We are looking for a Control Systems Engineer to join the WAIO Control Systems Eastern Pilbara Team. This site-based FIFO opportunity is located at BHP's Jimblebar Operation within the Eastern Pilbara.
As a key member of the WAIO Control Systems team, you will play a vital role in supporting safe, reliable, and efficient operations. You will contribute to improving safety, system availability, asset reliability, production performance, and project delivery, while ensuring strong control systems governance and compliance. Working closely with operational and technical stakeholders, you will help drive continuous improvement initiatives and deliver innovative control systems solutions that create lasting value for the operation.
This role offers a dynamic and exciting scope with a real opportunity to make a difference. You will be supported by a great team with strong technical capability in a collaborative working environment.
You will be responsible for but not limited to:
- Demonstrate an overriding commitment to health, safety, environment responsibility and sustainable development.
- Provide control systems support to breakdowns and production critical issues.
- Investigate and identify the root cause of related downtime caused by control systems and identify and execute solutions to prevent repeat events from occurring.
- Initiate and implement control systems improvement work to achieve safer and more reliable plant, thereby maintaining and improving process efficiencies, in line with our business plan
- Design, review and execute PLC and SCADA changes.
- Execute control systems design and commissioning for plant modifications and new equipment installation.
- Provide technical stewardship through a variety of work in the electrical and control systems space.
- Provide governance on proposed control systems changes on site including critical control effectiveness test and verification.
- Overriding commitment to achieve the best outcome for control systems safety, design and execution.
About You
- Tertiary qualification in Electrical or Mechatronic or Control Systems Engineering or Trade qualifications in Electrical or Instrumentation discipline in equivalent industry and/or organisational experience
- PLC experience: Experience in Allen Bradley RSLogix5000 and/or Studio5000 is necessary.
- SCADA experience: Citect SCADA (Configuration and deployment)
It will be advantageous for the candidate:
- TÜV Functional Safety Engineer qualification or equivalent
- Andritz APC.
- VSD (VVVF) configuration and diagnostic
- Field Communication: DeviceNet, EthernetIP, ControlNet, & Modbus
- Previous control systems experience with Balance Machines (Reclaimer & Stacker), Car Dumper/Load Out, Train Loadout, Conveyors and Shuttles
- Previous experience with design and commissioning
- Knowledgeable in analogue and discrete sensors (e.g. level, flow, pressure, temperature, position)
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