Controls Engineer Manager

Flex-N-Gate is a leading manufacturer and supplier of components for the automotive industry, recently ranked 10th of the 150 Top North American Suppliers in “Automotive News.” A growing and vital company, Flex-N-Gate provides a great opportunity for hard-working and skilled individuals.

The Controls Manager will provide technical leadership, team and project management for all aspects of electrical systems throughout the facility, system integration, and validation for industrial control systems.

• Customer Oriented
• Foster Teamwork
• Managing Change
• Building Collaborative Relationships
• Analytical Thinking
• Technical Expertise
• Fostering Innovation
• Results Oriented
• Personal Credibility
• Stress Management
• Ethics and Integrity
• Decisiveness

• CHRF.
  00003 New Employee Orientation
• Electrostatic Discharge
• Global Harmonization
• TS- 16949 Training
• Lock Out Tag Out
• Hilo Operation
• Crane Operation
• Production Equipment Maintenance
• Management of Ozone Depleting Substances
• Contractor Management
• Waste Water Management
• Emergency Response Management
• Solid & Hazardous Waste
• Construction Debris Management
• Oil Filter Management
• Scrap Metal Waste Management
• Used Oil Management
• Lead Acid Battery Management
• Outside Material & Equip Storage
• Mercury Containing Device Management
• Used Shop Towels, Sleeves. Gloves & Oil absorbent Products
• Tower/Chiller Chemical Usage
• Gas Cylinder
• Drum & Tote Management
• Chemical Storage
• HID, Fluorescent Tube and Ballast Disposal
• Tritium Based Emergency lighting disposal
• ISO 9001, IATF 16949, and applicable Customer Specific Requirements
• Quality Management Systems - CQAM.
  00001 Quality Management Systems Manual

• Responsible for the functional management and leadership of the Electrical Controls Engineering department that performs continuation engineering and supports new and old control systems development. Continuation Engineering defines the service level expectations associated with maintaining a control system or a process system through the normal production life cycle to improve and enhance functionality, maintain industry standards, improve quality, and achieve productivity improvements.
• Integral to these functions is the responsibility for leading a highly capable, motivated engineering team. The manager must optimize and develop expertise, create and maintain focus, enable and foster career development, and maintain alignment of assignments and staff with priorities and business needs. The manager must work in close partnership with Project Management, Business Management, and work in collaboration with Operations throughout the plant.
  
  This position requires one to be a strategic thinker with strong leadership, technical and interpersonal skills.
• Create; oversee others in the designs and details of electrical elementary diagrams, wiring diagrams, layout control panels and systems for machine controls and automation production equipment.
• Create and oversee others in the component selection, controls architecture design, software development, and system integration of all electrical components.
• Supervise, develop, and implement control strategies including programming of PLC's (programmable logic controllers), operator interface design, system implementation, start-up and commissioning of systems
• Drive the development of new controls solutions that improve our competiveness.
• Interpret control requirements from customer specifications, develop technical requirements for controls.
• Supervise and create the development of flow charts, sequence of operations, I/O documents, ladder logic programs for PLC based industrial controllers
• Schedule resources, approve time off, evaluate, review and coach members of the Controls Systems Group.
• Identify skill requirements, technology development opportunities and new product offerings from suppliers. Focus on opportunities and make recommendations for future technical direction.
• Promotes cultural values and behavior in others (respectful, purposeful, integrity, collaborative, adaptable, positive attitude, excellence, effective communication, self-motivated, responsible, recognition & appreciation)
• Perform other assignments, as requested by…