Sr Electrical Controls Engineer

Job Description

Develops and manages a corporate E&C reliability program across multiple facilities and/or programs. Develops and supervises initiatives to improve equipment and machine center OEE performance through industrial best practice, lessons learned, applied E&C technology, and process improvement. Using reliability metrics, develop and communicate a control system improvement plan for critical machine systems for improved uptime and operating quality.

We’d love to meet you if… you’re energized by big challenges and creating a plan to meet the challenge… you enjoy working with others to deliver great work… you’re innovative and looking for a values-driven, positive culture and environment

• Partner with corporate, regional and plant personnel to ensure collaborative, effective solutions are presented, developed and implement which achieve predetermined project goals and mill needs or requirements
• Lead the development of Hardware, Software, and device standards to ensure effective reliable operations
• Lead the development of Control System strategies and programming standards to ensure effective and reliable operations
• Provide guidance, training and mentor the development of plant controls and electrical personnel to assist reliability improvement efforts
• Evaluate plant Maintenance strategies for all electrical and control equipment and implement improvements to reduce failures
• Assist plant personnel in developing condition and performance monitoring programs for critical equipment in order to reduce/eliminate unplanned failures
• Using reliability metrics identify and prioritize control system improvement opportunities. Work with plant personnel to make necessary improvements to improve plant and machine center OEE
• Perform reliability review of design and control system reviews on proposed new equipment installation
• Lead and/or participate in efforts to analyze and identify root causes of failures for high priority/critical items
• Develop and manage a resource plan that ensures adequate coverage of discipline strength as required to implement the communicated improvement initiatives across all businesses and regions
• Develop and implement results oriented, value-added engineering solutions that achieve predetermined project goals and customer needs and/or requirements
• Develop project documentation defining standards, specifications, plans, prints, schematics and/or other necessary documentation required to achieve defined project goals
• Develop detailed reports and studies in a thorough, professional manner consistent with a senior engineering position.
• Develop detailed design of automation and process control systems that integrate PCs, PLCs, AC or DC Drives, Position Controllers, single or multi-loop controllers
• Integrate statistical control components into system design including basic control charting, real time & historical trending, remote monitoring and data acquisition / control
• Support project development and implementation work of corporate, regional, and plant E&C engineers, contribute to corporate standards and process control initiatives
• Develop, install and debug control system programming including PC operating, PC networking, SQL, Access, Excel, PLC, HMI, Visual Basic, C, and/or specialty component software
• Manage, lead and/or guide internal or external engineering resources to ensure adherence to reliability and project goals
• Implement standard engineering and project management practices consistently throughout project / work assignments
• Maintain technical skills and knowledge by attending trade…