Process Control Engineer

About the Role

ASARCO is seeking a motivated entry-level Process Control Engineer I to support the reliability, maintenance, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of automation systems across its mining and mineral processing operations. This is a hands-on opportunity to build foundational plant systems expertise while collaborating directly with Operations, Metallurgy, Maintenance, and IT/OT teams to drive safe, efficient plant performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Support troubleshooting of PLC, DCS, SCADA, HMI, historian, OPC, control server, and instrumentation-related issues.
• Assist with PLC/HMI configuration and programming changes under appropriate technical review and Management of Change requirements.
• Monitor control-system health, communications, alarms, backups, and equipment status.
• Support maintenance of control-system documentation, drawings, tag databases, backups, and asset inventories.
• Assist with control-loop performance analysis and basic PID tuning.
• Analyze plant historian and process data to identify operational issues and improvement opportunities.
• Support instrumentation troubleshooting, calibration verification, and control-system integration.
• Participate in testing and commissioning of new control-system equipment and projects.
• Develop and maintain PI Vision or equivalent operational dashboards and reports.
• Support alarm rationalization and High-Performance HMI improvement activities.
• Participate in root-cause investigations involving process-control or instrumentation systems.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Experience supporting DCS, SCADA, PLC/HMI, historian, and OT systems.
• Familiarity with instrumentation.