PLC Specialist II

Career Opportunities with WEG - A First Class Company!

Founded in 1961, WEG is recognized as one of the largest electric machine manufacturers in the world. WEG employs over 47,000 people around the globe and offers a diversified and integrated product line, with sales to more than 135 countries worldwide. Our U.S. operations are growing at an impressive rate and we're looking for talented individuals to help us move forward with this aggressive growth plan.

WEG offers competitive compensation, challenging and exciting career options, as well as great benefits, including paid vacation, medical, dental, vision, 401(k), flexible spending accounts, life insurance, and disability.

Over the past several years, WEG has grown through the acquisition of several industry-leading companies. While all roles are part of the WEG organization, hiring is currently managed through separate systems aligned to each business.

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Provides independent pre- and post-sales engineering support for PLCs, HMIs, industrial networks, and related automation systems. Applies engineering principles and professional judgment to analyze moderately complex applications, establish functional requirements, design and modify control solutions, resolve integration issues, and advise customers and internal partners on implementation and technical alternatives.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Independently analyze moderately complex customer applications and establish PLC, HMI, I/O, communications, and control-system functional requirements.
• Design, develop, document, test, and modify PLC/HMI programs, control logic, communications, and system configurations based on application and user requirements.
• Evaluate technical alternatives and recommend control architectures, hardware/software configurations, programming approaches, and integration methods.
• Perform engineering root-cause analysis of complex hardware, software, programming, communications, and system-integration issues and develop corrective solutions.
• Develop and execute validation plans and functional tests for control-system designs, program modifications, and application solutions.
• Provide independent engineering guidance for installation, commissioning, integration, optimization, and operation of automation systems.
• Serve as an engineering escalation resource for PLC Specialist I employees and provide technical review and guidance on application issues.
• Advise customers, distributors, system integrators, Sales, Application Engineering, Product Management, and R&D on technical requirements, alternatives, risks, and solutions.
• Analyze recurring field issues and recommend engineering, product, documentation, training, or process improvements.
• Develop technical specifications, application notes, programming examples, test documentation, and training materials.
• Exercise independent professional judgment in selecting engineering approaches and determining when product-development, safety, or specialized engineering review is required.
• Other duties as assigned.

Experience:

• 2-4 years minimum years of experience with multiple PLC/HMI or industrial automation platforms and system-integration environments.
• Working knowledge of VFDs, motion control, Ether Net/IP, Modbus, PROFINET, and related industrial networks.
• Experience designing, programming, testing, commissioning, or modifying industrial control systems.
• Experience delivering customer or channel-partner technical training and engineering presentations.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Controls Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Automation Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline required.

Knowledge/Training:

• Professional knowledge of industrial control engineering, PLC/HMI programming, I/O, industrial communications, system integration, and automation architecture.
• Ability to independently apply engineering analysis and judgment to define functional specifications, evaluate…