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Senior Project Engineer (Automation / Control)

locations Banglen

time type Full time

posted on Posted Yesterday

job requisition id Req-38916

About Ingredion:

Join Ingredion, where innovation impacts lives worldwide! Without even realizing it, you have experienced our work in your favorite chocolate, your pet's food, the paper you write on, and your everyday snacks. As a global powerhouse across more than 60 industries, we harness the potential of natural ingredients to transform lives. Whether you are starting your career or bringing years of experience, there is a place for you here to make a real difference. Be part of our team that values a wide range of perspectives and is committed to shaping a better world with every product we create.

Location: Banglen Plant, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand

Workplace type: On-site

Reports to: Senior Manager, Project Engineering & Reliability

Make a difference by leading automation and control projects that enhance process safety, operational reliability, product quality, data visibility, and manufacturing efficiency across our production sites.

As a Senior Project Engineer (Automation & Control), you will lead automation and control engineering activities throughout the project lifecycle, from concept development and front-end engineering through detailed design, implementation, commissioning, start-up, and closeout. You will ensure solutions comply with company standards, cybersecurity requirements, approved budgets, schedules, and operational objectives. This role reports to the Senior Manager, Project Engineering & Reliability and has no direct reports.

What you will do:

Lead project execution - Manage the automation and control system scope of capital projects from feasibility through closeout, ensuring safe, timely, and cost-effective delivery.
Design automation systems - Develop and review architectures, control philosophies, functional specifications, and detailed designs for PLC, DCS, SCADA, HMI, historian, and industrial networks.
Integrate control systems - Connect process equipment, instrumentation, electrical systems, MES platforms, and plant control systems for reliable and seamless operation.
Develop capital projects - Support feasibility studies, FEL/FEED deliverables, scope definition, CAPEX estimates, automation strategies, risk assessments, and technical specifications.
Lead commissioning and start-up - Provide technical leadership during FAT, SAT, installation, commissioning, start-up, and performance validation.
Ensure cybersecurity and compliance - Apply corporate cybersecurity standards, industry best practices, engineering regulations, and company safety requirements.
Improve reliability and collaborate - Enhance process-control performance, automation reliability, efficiency, data visibility, and maintainability while partnering with Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Electrical, Process Engineering, EHS, and IT/OT teams.

What you will bring:

Bachelor's degree in Automation, Control, Electrical, or Mechatronics Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
Minimum 7 years of experience in automation, process control, industrial control systems, or capital project execution within manufacturing or a similar processing industry.
Experience delivering automation and control projects from design through commissioning and start-up, including FEL/FEED, EPC, or brownfield modernization projects.
Strong knowledge of PLC, DCS, SCADA, HMI, industrial communication networks, instrumentation systems, control strategies, and automation architectures.
Ability to travel across multiple sites and good written and spoken English.

Who you are:

A technically strong project engineer with excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving capability.
A collaborative communicator who works effectively with Operations, Engineering, EHS, IT/OT, vendors, and system integrators.
Cybersecurity- and safety-conscious, with knowledge of industrial control standards and OT network architecture.
Organized and commercially aware, with attention to scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk.
Hands-on experience with Rockwell, Siemens, Schneider Electric, Emerson DeltaV, Honeywell, or Yokogawa systems; MES, historians, Industry 4.0, or a PE license is advantageous.

Why Join Ingredion?

Discover why Ingredion is the ideal place to advance your career with rewards and benefits designed to help you thrive. Create the future with us and enjoy:

Total Rewards Package - Competitive salary and performance-based pay recognizing your contributions to our success.
Comprehensive Benefits & Wellness Support - Health, long-term savings, and resources for your physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
Career Growth - Learning, training, and development opportunities.
Employee Recognition Program - A culture of real-time appreciation, with personalized recognition rewards globally.
Employee Referral Program - Refer top talent and earn a bonus if they are hired.
Thailand Benefit - Exclusive housing loan rates with the Government Housing Bank.

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Ingredion (Thailand) Company Limited and its affiliates acknowledge the importance of compliance with the Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562 (PDPA). For details on how Ingredion collects, uses, and discloses personal data, please refer to the privacy notices below:

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Privacy Notice - Thai

Relocation available: No

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Relocation Available: Yes, Within Country

About Ingredion

Ingredion is a leading global, plant-based ingredients solutions company. We make sweeteners, starches, nutrition ingredients and biomaterials that are used by customers in everyday products from foods and beverages to paper and pharmaceuticals.

At Ingredion, we embrace possibilities and inspire each other to think big. Together, we are reimagining how we can make life better through our differentiated ingredients and innovative solutions.

We share an inspiring purpose — to make life better, for our colleagues, our customers, our communities, and the world. We belong to a culture of bold innovators, of people who believe that their skills, creativity, and passion can deliver solutions that can enhance people’s lives.

We create what's next, transforming our imagination into innovation.

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We have a welcoming and collaborative environment to build and grow a career in a multinational company. Here, everyone can be their authentic selves and be part of a community of talented and caring people, interacting with professionals around the world, made up of varied backgrounds, cultures and industries. We are encouraged to think differently and innovate through collaboration and experimentation. We are constantly imagining new ways to bring value to our customers, through new ingredients, solutions, and ways of working.

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