Job Description

Job Responsibilities

• Designs and maintains the facilities and life safety control system to ensure the safe operations of life safety systems
• Technical lead for the design and operations of the facilities control system
• 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.
• Develops design engineering criteria and performance specifications required to meet unique process equipment and facility systems operating requirements and building safety codes.
• Maintains fire alarm and fire protection equipment in accordance with applicable NFPA and FM Global and local authority statutory requirements.
• 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
• Leads the discipline specific systems operations and maintenance activities to ensure safe and efficient operation.
• Develops criteria and performance specifications required to meet unique operating requirements and building and safety codes.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical/Controls with minimum 8 years 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)
• 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)

Additional Knowledge

• 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.
• Working knowledge of firefighting, fire alarm and 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.
• Experience working with fire alarm suppliers and installation contractors for leading manufactures: Siemens, Simplex, Honeywell Notifier

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.

We Look Forward to Your Application

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