Automations and controls Engineer

Overview

Hunter Douglas is the world’s leading manufacturer of window coverings and a major manufacturer of architectural products. We are a brand that you know and trust. With more than 100 years of innovation, we’ve defined our industry with proprietary products that deliver revolutionary style and functionality and can be found in millions of homes and commercial buildings globally.

We are searching for candidates that are driven, intelligent, creative, and entrepreneurial. By offering challenging and accelerated opportunities for growth, powered by a shared hunger for success, we create a space for your career to thrive. In return for your expertise, we are committed to providing competitive and robust total compensation and benefit packages to ensure you feel valued. Our dream is to become the fastest growing, most loved, window covering company in the world.

What’s yours?

Responsible for the conception, specification, design, implementation, and maintenance of automated systems and control processes to optimize the efficiency, quality, and performance of operations. This role requires working with multidisciplinary teams to develop, deploy, and document control systems that enhance productivity and automation, reduce scrap, and ensure safe operation of machinery.

System Design and Development

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand process requirements and objectives.
• Design and develop control systems and automation solutions that align with project goals.
• Prepare project specifications with justification, cost savings/spend, timeline, and resources.
• Manages and/or directs the work of third parties or integrators executing project-related assignments in-house and outside Hunter Douglas. Conduct FAT and SAT validations.

Programming and System Integration

• Write, test, and debug control logic programs using IEC
  61131-3 standards for PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers), PACs (Programmable Automation Controllers), DCS (Distributed Control Systems), MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems), and SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems.
• Advanced understanding of motion control schemes and safety system integration.
• Experience with programming Cobot (collaborative robots) and machine/operator integration.
• Develop HMI (Human Machine Interface) programs for comprehensive machine interactions (alarms, machine state, recipe selection/edit, user login, and security).
• Implement communication protocols for data exchange between different devices and systems (SAP/PQS MII Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence, MES, SCADA, Remote Access).
• Integrate and develop vision systems for validation and defect mapping/analysis.
• Integrate various control devices, sensors, actuators, and instrumentation with PID controls into a cohesive automation system using various network protocols: ECAT, EPL, EIP, Device Net, CANO
  
  pen, and Serial.
• Extensive experience with power distribution, electrical panel layout, High/Low voltage panel separation, and field wiring (up to 180
  
  VDC and 480
  
  VAC).

Testing and Validation

• Perform thorough testing of control systems to ensure accuracy, reliability, and safety.
• Conduct simulations and real-world testing to validate the system's performance under different operating conditions

Troubleshooting and Maintenance

• Identify and resolve highly technical issues and malfunctions in the automation and control systems.
• Provide timely support for Process/Fab Engineers and Maintenance departments.
• Ability to analyze data and system performance for process optimization

Documentation

• Create comprehensive documentation, including system design specifications, wiring diagrams & ECRs, programming comments, calibration procedures, flow charts, BOMs, and user manuals.

Safety and Compliance

• Ensure that all control systems adhere to industry standards, regulations, risk assessments, and safety protocols (NEC, OSHA, ANSI B11.19/20, NFPA 70E, SCCR, UL508, EN954-1, and HDMSC standards).
• Implement emergency stop and safe stop systems to performance levels according to risk assessments. Participate in the risk assessment process, including stop time calculations and safe…