Controls Engineer - Fire/Life Safety

The Group You’ll Be A Part Of

The Global Operations Group brings information systems, facilities, supply chain, logistics, and high-volume manufacturing together to drive the engine of our global business operations. We help Lam deliver industry-leading solutions with speed and efficiency, while actively supporting the resilient and profitable growth of Lam's business.

The Impact You’ll Make

Develops discipline specific engineering designs and develops drawings, specifications, and scope of work documents for the construction of new R&D Lab facilities, new process equipment installations, and existing facility system alterations. Plans facilities changes and production equipment layouts, working toward economy of operation, maximum use of facilities and equipment, and compliance with laws and regulations.  Reviews and estimates design costs including equipment, installation, labor, materials, preparation, and other related costs. Develops design engineering criteria and performance specifications required to meet unique process equipment and facility systems operating requirements and building safety codes. Leads the discipline specific systems operations and maintenance activities to ensure safe and efficient operation.

What You’ll Do

• 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.

Who We’re Looking For

• 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).

Preferred Qualifications

• 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. 

Our Commitment

We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.

Lam Research ("Lam" or the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer. Lam is committed to and reaffirms support of equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination in employment policies, practices and procedures on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. It is the Company's intention to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees.

Lam offers a variety of work location models based on the needs of each role. Our hybrid roles combine the benefits of on-site collaboration with colleagues and the flexibility to work remotely and fall into two categories – On-site Flex and Virtual Flex. ‘On-site Flex’ you’ll work 3+ days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, with the opportunity to work remotely for the balance of the week. ‘Virtual Flex’ you’ll work 1-2 days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, and remotely the rest of the time.