Controls Engineer

CONTROLS ENGINEER

Job Description:

• Responsible for the designing, engineering, and procuring mechanical and electrical equipment and systems for the assembly area.
• Programs the assembly equipment, and supports manufacturing needs.
• Assist and repair engineering related electrical breakdowns on the assembly equipment.
• Support Production, Maintenance, and Process Teams in troubleshooting of equipment.

• Design, engineer, and procure assembly equipment for future programs. Help maintain and re-engineer current assembly equipment.
• Hardware design.
• Program assembly equipment.
• Applysafety rules with immediate reaction incase of detected dangerous situation.
• Ensure that all safety devices of machines are operational before their restart after engineering intervention.
• Ensure quality standards are upheld.
• Working collaboratively with Process/Quality Engineers and maintenance to develop new processes or process improvements.
• Ground up robotics and controls hardware and logic design, electrical schematics, BOM, assembly, debug, and validation.
• Test, update, and industrialize existing equipment.
• Recover equipment from breakdowns, contribute to analysis of root cause, and suggest permanent corrective actions.
• Escalate deviations after machine observation in curative maintenance.
• Participate to Line QRQC (Quick Response Quality Control), participate in APU QRQC.
• Participate in machine run-off of new manufacturing equipment stant improvement to SCADA and MES systems.
• Propose and Create Monthly/Annual preventative maintenance documentation for automated equipment and control systems.
• Assist in development of Work Instructions, PFMEA, and all Process Documentation.
• Investigate and propose Advanced Process Control (APC), Model Predictive Control (MPC) and Distributed Control Systems (DCS) for future manufacturing delivery improvement.
• Project management within individual environment.
• Attention to budget.
• Escalate roadblocks preventing on-time deliverables.
• Ability to read and create mechanical and electrical schematics.
• Use control systems to assist maintenance team with motion controls, Servos, VFDs, pneumatic controls, and relay logic.
• Help create and install vision systems used in production.
• Travel is about 25%.

• 2+ years of previous experience working in a manufacturing environment.
• 5+ years of PLC and HMI programming (Allen Bradley and/or Siemens).
• 2+ years of Robotics programming.
• Experience reading and creating electrical prints and schematics.
• Experience with manufacturing equipment is required.
• Ability to communicate with customers both internal and external.
• Time management and technical problem solving autonomy must be well developed
  
  APC, MPC, and DCS experience highly preferred.
• Experience programming motion controls, Servos, VFDs, pneumatic controls, and relay logic.
• Experience programming vision systems (Keyence and/or Cognex) preferred.
• Project management/leadership.