PLC Controls Engineer

Title:

PLC Controls Engineer

Location:

Sunnyvale, CA

• Develop technical manuals, drawings, models, training documents, preventative maintenance plans and troubleshoot guides for automated equipment and automated processes.
• Support the validation of the automated equipment operations.
• Coordinate Preventative Maintenance initiatives and communicate daily department activities.
• Interface with a variety of automated equipment and drive controls solutions to eliminate defects, improve cycle times, reduce machine downtime.
• Help support and develop equipment controls requirements and specifications.
• Support design engineers qualifying complex automation controls solutions and applications.
• Prepare and maintain documentation related to the operation of the automation equipment.
• Support New Product Development automation needs.
• A strong digital logic understanding.
• Understanding of PLC scan flow (inputs, Decisions, outputs).
• Ability to work with logic that is full of Set/Reset (latch/unlatch) bits, NOT Finite State Machine.
• Experience working on Servos, Robots, HMI's, PLC's, Vision cameras, TCP/IP, Profibus
  
  DP, Profinet.

• B.S in Engineering or a Technical Practice with Curriculum in Computer Science or Electrical practices.
• PLC development Experience with Allen Bradley, Siemens...
• Experience with SCADA (Supervisory and data Acquisition Systems).
• Proficient in Microsoft Applications, word, excel.
• HMI development with Ignition system software.
• PLC, HMI & SCADA - PLC programming at least 90% on Rockwell out of total experience.
• PLC programming done from scratch for at least one project.
• Servo experience - Must have hand on experience on at least one big project.
• Robotics - Must have hand on experience on at least one big project.
• Database - Minimum one project where candidate worked on SQL or any relevant database.

• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Capability to work in teams.