OT & Automation Specialist

Location

Hamilton, ON | Canada

Job description

At Bunge, people don’t just come here to work, they come here to grow – solving challenges that directly impact the world with a diverse team of thinkers and doers. Bunge offers a strong compensation and benefits package, vacation time and opportunity to progress. Most importantly, in all we do we live our values:

• Act as One Team by fostering inclusion, collaboration, and respect
• Drive for Excellence by being agile, innovative and efficient
• Do What's Right by acting safely, ethically, and sustainably

An Automation Specialist uses technology to improve, streamline and automate a manufacturing process. They are responsible for planning, implementation, and monitoring such technology.

Main Accountabilities

• Explore and implementing new ways to automate systems
• Design and testing automation equipment and processes
• Program new automated components
• Identify quality issues and writing reports
• Eliminate defects and errors with product and software development
• Collaborate with other business units
• Contract and third-party management.
• Definitions related to the infrastructure and architecture of networks together with other areas of the company, aiming at the segregation between IT and OT networks.
• Integration and data communication between the most diverse layers of the network, following applicable cybersecurity protocols.
• Support in defining wireless OT network and communication protocols needed to ensure connectivity.
• Interaction with process historians, enabling communications and data for deeper analysis.
• Interaction with different communication protocols (Profibus, OPC UA and DA, Profinet, etc.).
• Support in monitoring projects involving ICS and Industry 4.0 update.
• Work together with industrial and IT teams to deliver scalable and secure solutions.

Education/Experience:

• Engineering Bachelor’s in one of the following (Instrumentation, Controls, Electrical) is preferred.

• Minimum 8 years multidiscipline ICE experience. Ability to work on multifunction teams composed of site/regional employees, external resources and centralized services like procurement. Ability to deliver quality results in a high-volume/fast-moving environment and adaptability are must-haves.
• Effective collaboration with procurement throughout project life cycle. Experience participating in a vendor document review cycles.
• Excellent project management skills and ability to control scope, cost, schedule and benefits delivery on all projects. Experience with Microsoft Project is preferred.
• Experienced applying risk management methodology at key points in project life cycle. Proven ability to develop and manage risk mitigation plans to ensure success.
• Experience using Project Quality control techniques covering inspecting, testing and reporting to ensure deliverables and customer expectations are met or exceeded in all project phases.
• Experience applying HAZID and HAZOP, as well as Hazardous Location rating assessments. Knowledge in NFPA 36 and 61 are preferred.
• Experience from any of the following sectors: Power Generation, Industrial Automation Supply, Oilseeds Processing, Agriculture, Biofuels, Pulp & Paper, Food & Beverage, Packaging or Chemicals.
• Experienced with Microsoft products, SharePoint and other collaborative software, Microsoft Project.
• Team player, excellent communication skills and time management, ability to influence others to right outcomes regardless of level or position in business.
• PLC, AutoCAD, schematics, blue prints, P&ID, variable frequency drives, instrumentation .
• Knowledge Tools: Microsoft Office package, Excel Advanced, Tableau, Power BI.
• Soft skills: storytelling, curious, resilient, organized, urgent census and prioritization of demands.
• Strong analytical skills
• Excited about trying new solutions
• Experience with project management
• Experience with robotics, AI and machine learning
• Desirable experience with PLC system, network, rockwell.

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Bunge (NYSE: BG) is a world leader in sourcing, processing and supplying oilseed and grain products and ingredients. Founded in 1818, Bunge’s expansive network feeds and fuels a growing world, creating sustainable products and opportunities for more than 70,000 farmers and the consumers they serve across the globe. The company is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri and has 25,000 employees worldwide who stand behind more than 350 port terminals, oilseed processing plants, grain facilities, and food and ingredient production and packaging facilities around the world.

Bunge is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or military or veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Bunge is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled

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