Career Accelerator Program - Facilities Controls and Automation Engineer

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When you join TI, you will participate in the Career Accelerator Program (CAP), which provides professional and technical training and resources to accelerate your ramp into TI and set you up for long-term career success. Within this program, we also offer function-specific technical training and on-the-job learning opportunities that will encourage you to solve problems through a variety of hands-on, meaningful experiences from your very first day on the job.

As someone fresh out of college, making an immediate impact and gaining hands on experience is probably at the top your priority list. For graduates with a Facilities related degree (Mechanical, Electrical, Controls, Civil, Environmental, or Industrial Engineering or other related degree), we’ve got a program designed for you! This is an opportunity to develop valuable skills in a collaborative environment that will provide you direct contact with key facilities leaders across TI. Along the way you’ll receive coaching and training to help position you for a long and successful career where you’ll be inspired to innovate, collaborate and make a true impact.

About the Program In this program, you’ll be immersed in meaningful assignments giving you real-world experience and a true sense of ownership over systems, projects, and budgets. As a participant in the FOCUS program you’ll rotate through two diverse and challenging positions within Facilities during a 2 year period. As a Facilities Engineer you’ll be directly responsible for building utility systems in support of a semiconductor wafer fab. TI Facilities operates over 150 different utility systems that include chemicals, gasses, variety of electrical systems, water systems, HVAC, waste, vacuum, and controls. These systems are designed to run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year without interruption, creating a state of the art manufacturing environment. Facilities works closely with TI’s manufacturing team to understand how the utility systems impact the process as well as how to reduce consumption.

As a part of the Facilities Controls and Automation team, you will be responsible for various programmable logic controllers (PLCs), SCADA systems, field instrumentation, motor drives, industrial networks and more. You will work alongside other mechanical, electrical, & chemical engineering teams, as well as facilities technicians & operators, to help ensure safe & reliable facility automation, with effective remote monitoring & remote control.

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Managing requested projects and equipment installations, including project resources, schedules and budgets
• Providing technical support to the Facilities organization as a system expert over time
• Teaming with other engineering disciplines, management, internal customers, and suppliers to ensure projects and systems are cost effective, within budget, meet the desired design criteria and schedule guidelines
• Communicating and documenting the sequence of operations and design intent to others requiring information
• Providing capacity/demand analysis of utility systems and planning to support growth when required
• Providing analysis of critical utility systems to understand risks and developing solutions based on assessment
• Developing and reviewing maintenance and operational procedures to ensure best practices are in place and documented properly
• Designing and managing turnkey projects and coordinating contract work in the field

Texas Instruments will not sponsor job applicants for visas or work authorization for this position.

Minimum Requirements:

• Facilities: Minimum Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering or Electrical Engineering Technology, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Civil Engineering, or other related field.
• Minimum Cumulative 3.0/4.0 GPA or higher

Preferred Qualifications:

• Basic understanding & exposure to industrial programming (e.g. structured text, ladder logic, function block diagram, etc)
• Basic understanding of data acquisition & measurements (e.g. analog signals vs digital signals, various instrumentation types and their implementation)
• Demonstrated strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functions
• Strong time management skills that enable on-time project delivery
• Demonstrated ability to build strong, influential relationships
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
• Ability to take the initiative and drive for results
• Demonstrated leadership and project management skills, including time management and priority setting