Process Controls Engineer, Lithium Refinery

Tesla's in-house Lithium Refinery is located in the greater Corpus Christi area of Texas. This investment is critical to our mission to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy and represents our efforts to aggressively increase the supply of battery-grade lithium hydroxide available in North America.As the Process Controls Engineer, you will work closely with the production and design teams to specify, configure, and optimize chemical production process control systems and equipment.



Responsibilities

• Develop and configure DCS and PLC logic and modify existing logic to optimize product quality, yield, throughput, process stability, and lower OpEx costs
• Develop and configure new operator displays and update existing displays to improve overall usability, intuitive navigation, and operator effectiveness
• Apply advanced regulatory control strategies and DCS-based model predictive control technology to solve complex process control issues
• Work collaboratively with Operations, Process Engineers, and other Process Control Engineers to ensure that control strategies are functioning as designed and are achieving productivity and material quality targets
• Troubleshoot process control issues and work with Operations and Maintenance teams to assist them in troubleshooting efforts
• Own plant wide control loop tuning and equipment/unit optimization
• Drive standardization, common approaches, and employ RAGAGEP across our Integrated Controls System assets. Close collaboration is expected with OT, IT, EH&S, and Reliability Engineering

Requirements

• 3+ years as a process controls engineer in a chemical process design or production environment, with demonstrated experience in the execution
• Experience participating in process hazard reviews and HAZOPs
• Demonstrated experience configuring DCS advanced regulatory control using function block programming
• Demonstrated experience programming Emerson DeltaV
• Demonstrated experience developing operator displays and intuitive graphics navigation that conform to ASM consortium guidelines
• Advanced proficiency with process loop tuning using proven methods

Compensation and Benefits
Benefits

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

• Aetna PPO and HSA plans > 2 medical plan options with $0 payroll deduction
• Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
• Company Paid (Health Savings Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Aetna medical plan with HSA
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• LGBTQ+ care concierge services
• 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions), and Paid Holidays
• Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
• Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
• Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
• Tesla Babies program
• Commuter benefits
• Employee discounts and perks program