Controls Engineer

Located in Whitecourt, and operating with a non-unionized workforce, the firm’s paper mill—the first in Alberta—produces paper of such high quality that it has become the standard by which other paper products manufactured in North America are measured. The company is a successful, well-financed, progressive organization that is regarded as one of the best companies in the paper industry.

ANC is currently recruiting for a full-time, permanent Process Control Engineer role. Reporting to the Automation, Technology and Systems Manager, as part of our systems department, this position actively analyzes, identifies, and designs process improvements to improve the quality, efficiency, yield, and safety of ANC’s paper manufacturing process. The right candidate is a technical expert who is comfortable managing between ideas and actualities, and skilled at leading that process.

1. Process Control and Operations:
   1. Basic and Advanced Process Control Strategies.
   2. Control Loop Performance and Tuning, including Key Performance Indicator Identification of Control Optimization Opportunities.
   3. Power Plant Cost Reduction/efficiency Operations and Production support.
2. Design Documentation:
   1. Control Narratives / Cause and Effect Diagrams.
   2. Control System Network Architecture.
   3. SmartPlant Instrumentation/Electrical HMI Configuration Standard.
   4. Control System Configuration Standard.
3. Control Systems and Configuration:
   1. System Health Status, Diagnostics, and Troubleshooting.
   2. Implementation of IIoT Practices.
   3. Control Process Networking Planning and Deployment.
   4. Cybersecurity Planning.
   5. Consistent implementation of Logic and HMI standard.
4. Project:
   1. User Requirement Documentation.
   2. Lead new technology implementation.
   3. Control System Upgrade and Mill areas modernization.
   4. Participation in Technical Reviews.
   5. Process Control System troubleshooting.
   6. Become adept to the Company policies/procedures and Regulatory standards to provide adequate support whenever electrical/instrumentation or process control design changes are made in the mill.

QUALIFICATIONS

1. Electrical Engineering Degree specialized in Process Control.
2. 5+ years’ experience in the process industry (pulp and paper experience is an asset).
3. In-depth knowledge of Advanced Process Control Strategies and loop tuning methods.
4. Realtime optimization, Artificial Intelligence, and/or Machine Learning are definitive assets.
5. Experienced on Alarm Management Cycle, High Performance, and Abnormal Situation Management Operator Displays.
6. Knowledge of OT/IT Manufacturing Best Practices and Industrial Automation Cybersecurity.
7. Knowledge of Industrial Communication Protocols (Modbus TCP, ProfiBus, Profinet); Historian integration/configuration (MOPS, DataPark, OSI PI); computer virtualization; and TCP/IP networking is an asset.
8. Highly experienced in DCS and PLC configurations, preferred but not limited to ABB 800xA/AC800M, Bailey Symphony Plus, and Siemens PLCs platforms.
9. Adept in the Project Management Cycle in a multifunctional environment.
10. Strong foundation in Control System documentation; Control Narratives, PFD, P&IDs, Cause and Effects Diagrams, User Requirement/Functional Design/Detailed Design Specifications.
11. Demonstrated skills in legacy and modern programming languages (Visual Basic, Python, SQL, etc.) and/or data analytics and visualization tools is beneficial.

Alberta Newsprint Company will only consider those eligible to work in Canada either by citizenship, permanent residency, or valid Canadian open work permit.

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