POSITION OVERVIEW
Position Overview
ASARCO is seeking a motivated entry-level Process Control Engineer I to support the reliability, maintenance, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of automation systems across our mining and mineral processing operations.
Working alongside experienced process control leaders, you will help manage DCS, SCADA, PLC/HMI, historian, and OT systems. This is an exceptional 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.
The Process Control Engineer I is an entry-level engineering position responsible for supporting the reliability, maintenance, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of process control and automation systems within ASARCO's mining and mineral processing operations.
Working under the direction of experienced Process Control Engineers and Process Control leadership, the position supports DCS, SCADA, PLC/HMI, historian, instrumentation, and related OT systems. The Engineer I develops practical knowledge of plant processes and control systems while assisting with troubleshooting, system modifications, documentation, testing, commissioning, and improvement initiatives.
The position partners with Operations, Metallurgy, Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, and IT/OT personnel to support safe, reliable, and efficient plant operation.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- 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 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.
Skills Required
- Support troubleshooting of PLC, DCS, SCADA, HMI, historian, OPC, control server, and instrumentation issues.
- Assist with PLC and HMI configuration and programming changes under technical review and Management of Change requirements.
- Monitor control-system health, communications, alarms, backups, and equipment status.
- Maintain 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 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.
Asarco Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Asarco and has not been reviewed or approved by Asarco.
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Affordable Benefits — Benefits are positioned as “low-cost,” and there are indications of reduced employee health-care contributions for covered roles. Time-off enhancements are also described as part of recent agreement changes, improving total rewards value for some groups.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with a company match is described as part of the standard package. Match levels are portrayed as potentially strong, though details appear to vary by role or contract.
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Pay Growth & Progression — Material wage increases are described under a newly ratified multi-year union agreement, with large raises reported for some job categories. This suggests improved near-term earnings trajectory for employees covered by the latest contract.
Asarco Insights
What We Do
Grupo Mexico is a transnational mining company with operations in the U.S., Mexico and Peru. ASARCO (American Smelting and Refining Company), the U.S. based subsidiary of Grupo Mexico, is an integrated copper mining, smelting and refining company with approximately 1,700 employees. The company operates three mines, associated mills and smelter in Arizona and a refinery complex in Texas, which includes plants that produce copper cathode & rod.
