Controls Engineer - Fire/Life Safety
Lam Research
- Tualatin, OR
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Designs and maintains the facilities and life safety control system to ensure the safe operations of life safety systems.
- Technical lead for the design, operations, code compliance and maintenance of the facilities control system and fire/life safety systems.
- Ensures new facilities and new process tool installation designs incorporate the latest controls and instrumentation standards and Lam best practices.
- Ensure that the controls vendors are coordinating with Lam Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical and Electrical) for proper delivery and implementation for controls on infrastructure projects.
- Maintains fire alarm and fire protection equipment in accordance with applicable NFPA and FM Global and local authority statutory requirements.
- Manage performance of outsourced service providers to ensure work is completed as scheduled and incident action items follow-up is completed within agreed upon durations.
- Attends bi-weekly Site Incident Prevention Planning (SIPP) meetings and provide technical review/approval, including analysis of the risk assessment ratings (RAR) assigned to each SIPP - determine proper value of each RAR and guide the team to manage the risk to an acceptable level that maintains safety and schedules.
- Support startup and commissioning of all process tool installations and facilities expansion projects.
- Bachelor's of Science degree with minimum of 12 years' experience or master's degree with a minimum of 8 years' in Electrical/Controls or Mechanical Engineering or Computer Science. A candidate with a technical degree/certificate plus 10 years of PLC programming experience within a continuous process or manufacturing environment will be considered. Experience with fire protection & detection highly preferred. Technical degree/certificate (NICET certifications) and equivalent experience may also be considered.
- Semiconductor industry experience in a facility controls and instrumentation role is required.
- Extensive knowledge with NFPA/NEC, NETA and ISA requirements for semi-conductor facilities
- Experience with the start-up and commissioning of control hardware and software systems
- Experience with PLC hardware/software
- Expertise in developing controls, networking design programming, and troubleshooting of industrial control system.
- Experience designing, programming and operating Fire Life Safety Systems (FLSS) including Fire Protection /fire sprinklers, fire alarm/fire detection and toxic gas monitoring systems (TGMS).
- Experienced designing process flow diagrams, P&IDs, single line diagrams, cable and conduit schedules, instrumentation and control data sheets, I/O lists and controls narratives is a plus.