Controls Engineer

Summary:

The Electrical Controls Engineer designs electrical controls systems in accordance to the customer's needs. This will be done by collaborating with Sales, Mechanical, Electrical and Robotics Engineering teams, and Operations in order to create a solution that exceeds our customer's expectations.

• Create Electrical Schematics, panels, and machine layouts for various machine orders.
• Develops engineering design plans by researching, analyzing, selecting, and applying engineering techniques and criteria. Adapt and modify engineering approaches and options. Develop and evaluate new engineering approaches. Perform circuit, logic, and component designs using Computer Aided Design (CAD) techniques. Prepare layouts, block diagrams, and schematics. Collaborate with related engineering design teams. Evaluate components, materials, and suppliers. Identify and resolve engineering design integration/interface issues.
• Determine and establish engineering design specifications and safety standards.
• Create detailed parts descriptions for the database.
• Build a detailed bill of material.
• Research components and determine/recommend the correct one for the application.
• Design electrical controls systems that will achieve the customers' specific needs.
• Confirm electrical system and component capabilities by designing testing methods and properties.
• Evaluate electrical systems, products, components, and applications by researching, analyzing, selecting, and applying electrical engineering concepts, approaches, techniques, and criteria. Design and conduct research programs.
• Analyze electrical requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
• Professionally communicate and listen to customers to fully understand what the customer needs (internal and external customer). Continue to build strong customer relationships. Working together to achieve or exceed each customer's desired expectations.
• Support the Sales/Development Department with preliminary design philosophy to support client relationships and new opportunities.
• Work closely with the client’s team, as well as the Project Manager and Regional Sales Manager to guarantee a quality system is designed and tested to customers’ specifications.
• Troubleshoot controls and communicates issues during construction and operations to achieve a quality solution.
• Responsible for ensuring Safety requirements are met.
• Follow any other job related duties/functions requested by the supervisor.
• Create and install PLC & HMI programs and all other software needed to make the machine operate as required.
• Travel to customer sites to assist in the installation or repair of the machine’s electrical system if required.

This job operates in a professional office setting while collaborating with inside and outside customers. This role routinely works on the shop floor during the build process.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit for prolonged periods of time. Standing and moving around the machine build and to different departments will be required. The employee will need vision to see close, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus, talk, hear and listen while working on the shop floor with team members or collaborating with the customer.

This is a full-time position, working Monday through Friday, 7:30 am to 4:00 pm.

• Excellent verbal and written communications to clearly communicate changes, issues and resolutions.
• Solves complex problems using a sequential system.
• Strengthens alliances with other departments to create opportunities internally and externally.
• Understands the role of the function and how it fits into meeting the goals of the department and company.
• Profits from garnering support for concepts and solutions from other team members and departments.
• Assesses circumstances using experience and a variety of information gathered.

Bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in Electrical Controls Engineering with focus on engineering and manufacturing.