Automation Engineer Intern

Charm Industrial

Fort Lupton, CO, United States

Posted on: 2025-02-05

Category: renewables

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Employment type:

Internship

Experience required:

Intern

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Charm Industrial is working to return the atmosphere to 280 ppm CO₂. We design, build and operate a fleet of mobile fast pyrolyzers that convert ag and forest biomass residues into bio-oil for use in carbon removal and direct-reduced-iron steelmaking.

In 2020 our Chief Scientist and co-founder Shaun Meehan had two breakthroughs (bio-oil intermediate and bio-oil sequestration) that kickstarted the company. Within 10 months we completed our first carbon removal injection and in 2021 we completed more than 5,000 tons of CO₂e removal for customers like Stripe, Shopify and Microsoft.

About the Role

You will be building automation that enables our novel electromechanical equipment to put more carbon underground as effectively as possible! These automation solutions could include better HMIs, new SCADA systems to monitor and control more of our plant from one central location, and making visualizations of our key data.

This position will be hands-on with hardware in addition to writing software using common industrial automation languages. You’ll work closely with our operators to identify opportunities to improve our production capabilities via better automation systems.

The position is a 10- to 12-week on-site role in Fort Lupton, CO

Your Responsibilities

You’ll conceptualize, implement, and validate automation software solutions, which reduce operator burden and accelerate our ability to scale effectively

You’ll own the design of intuitive Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs) tailored for frontline operators and for test equipment

You’ll design and run test benches to evaluate subsystems for next generation pyrolyzers.You’ll analyze data to determine how well the design met the success criteria.

You’ll work alongside a cross-functional team, where you’ll need additional help to get your work to completion and vice versa. You’re always willing to help out and lend a hand for the betterment of the team.

You Bring

Experience designing working with users/operators to design effective user interfaces

Programming skills in Python, Structured Text (ST), Function Block Diagram (FBD), Ladder Logic (LD), or Codesys

Understanding of protocols such as Modbus, E/IP, RS485 and OPC-UA

Team and growth oriented mindset. You’ll rapidly learn new interdisciplinary concepts and methods and implement them with a multidisciplinary team.

Resourcefulness to problem solving. You’re constantly balancing cost, timeline and impact when making decisions on what to do next.

A self-directed mentality. You can find out where you can add the most value to your team and the organization.

Bonus

Basic knowledge of electrical systems (reading schematics, wire harness fabrication, etc.)

CAD experience, preferably SolidWorks.

Familiarity with mechanical and electrical fabrication techniques

Experience working in high volume production environments

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