Associate Controls Engineer

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following. Other duties may be assigned as necessary.

• Provide day-to-day support for all division PLC's and their related hardware, software and equipment.
• Respond to the needs of users concerning the use of the equipment, troubleshooting, problem solving and training.
• Implement standard engineering practices as well as provide detailed documentation upon project completion.
• Recommend architect and develop PLC solutions to meet the needs of the business as it relates to manufacturing operations.
• Design and engineering of programmable logic controls (PLC's) and modifications for a wide variety of manufacturing production equipment and maintain schematics.
• SCADA system and HMI controls development
• Represent and/or Support Engineering team during the R&D phase of new machines and concepts
• Direct electrical assembly activities such as panel fabrication and component wiring
• Specifying and correctly applying a variety of robotic multi-axis motion control platforms
• Machine vision
• Systems integration of 3rd party equipment and peripherals
• Technical writing

Education and Qualifications

• BSEE from an accredited university or college (or equivalent training and experience) and a minimum of 1 year of relevant experience utilizing the skills listed above
• 1 to 3 years of experience working as a PLC technician or engineer designing PLC's and modifications
• Must possess experience in network systems and terminal server.
• Computer and controls programming experience in relevant programming languages including
• Siemens and Allen-Bradley PLC
• Rockwell Software SQL
• Microsoft SQL Database programming
• Human-Machine Interface (HMI) software
• Visual Basic,
• Experience working on Electric Motor Starters, Motion Controllers, Drives, Disconnects and Switch Gears