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At Bakelite, you’ll help us create a better tomorrow with sustainable and innovative chemistry today.
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Europe DCS Engineer
(all genders)
What does a typical day look like?
These are your main tasks:
- The Europe DCS Engineer will own and drive the strategic initiatives across process control systems, automation design, and data analytics for European manufacturing sites.
- This role is responsible for driving operational excellence, reducing downtime, and enabling digital transformation in control systems, batch optimization, and AI integration.
- This Engineer will oversee lifecycle strategies, capital project execution for DCS related projects and support the analytics programs, ensuring alignment with business goals and delivering measurable cost and efficiency improvements.
What exciting challenges will you take on in this role?
These are your Job Responsibilities:
- Program Ownership – Control & Safeguarding Systems
- Develop the lifecycle strategy for control and safeguarding systems across multiple vendors.
- Mitigate obsolescence risks and long lead times through strategic parts contracts.
- Improve energy efficiency and reduce production costs.
- Minimize downtime risk from DCS infrastructure failures
- Major EC&I Project Design – Process Control
- Own the development of Process Narratives, FDS/HDS, I/O Lists, Logic & C&E Diagrams, FAT/SAT, and Commissioning Plans.
- Ensure successful delivery of EI and DCS capital programs.
- Process Control Programming & Troubleshooting
- Provide expert support across multiple BPCS platforms (Rockwell, Yokogawa, Emerson, ABB, Siemens).
- Lead commissioning of automation systems and reduce external programming costs.
- Support in-house programming and training initiatives.
- Batch Recipe & Production Sequence Optimization
- Provide expert support across multiple BPCS platforms (Rockwell, Yokogawa, Emerson, ABB, Siemens).
- Lead commissioning of automation systems and reduce external programming costs.
- Support in-house programming and training initiatives.
- Data Analytics Program
- Working with the EU Engineering team implement and manage analytics tools across European sites.
- Apply process control and instrumentation expertise to enhance data insights.
- Reduce material rework and quality issues
- Enable online water content testing for foam resins.
- Support the OEE Pillar on DCS initiatives.
- AI-Based Software Trials & Digital Transformation
- Support trials of AI technologies for new product development and process optimization.
- Collaborate with internal and external AI/data specialists.
- Enable real-time data migration and AI-driven decision-making.
- Strengthen predictive capabilities and digital maturity across operations.
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What is required to be successful in this role? (Education & Experience):
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- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Process Control, Automation, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
- 10+ years in process control and automation within manufacturing environments.
- Proven leadership in capital project execution and analytics program management.
- Experience with multiple BPCS platforms and AI/data integration.
- Demonstrated success in reducing costs and improving operational performance.
- Travel for periods within Europe (typical duration 1 week) when business requires.
Disclaimer:
We are not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms/employment agencies for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails to an employee about this position. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee of the Company via email, the Internet or in any other form and/or method without a valid written search firm agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of the Company; no fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by the Company as a result of the unsolicited referral or through other means.
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