Senior Controls Engineer

Open the Door to Your Future with Clopay Corporation & Cornell Cookson

At Clopay Corporation, we are more than just North America’s largest residential and commercial garage door manufacturer—we are a powerhouse of innovation, safety, and design. Through our premier brands, we lead the industry in providing groundbreaking high-performance closure solutions for both the places people call home and the spaces where the world does business.

Headquartered in Mason, Ohio, and operating state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Troy, Ohio, Mountaintop, Pennsylvania, and Goodyear, Arizona, we are a proud American-owned company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Griffon Corporation. Our reach extends across 55+ distribution centers and thousands of retail locations in the U.S. and Canada ensuring that we deliver the right door for every opening – from homes to businesses and beyond.

By joining our team, you become part of a legacy that blends the residential elegance of Clopay, known as "America’s Favorite Garage Doors," with the industrial strength and 180-year heritage of our rolling brands, Cornell and Cookson. Together, we secure everything from family garages to the world's most iconic stadiums and skyscrapers.

We currently have an opening for a Senior Controls Engineer in our Troy, Ohio Plant. This position is 100% on-site. There is no relocation assistance for this position.

• Purpose:
  
  Controls Expert and Electrical Power experience. Designs, specifies, project manages, and provides plant level support for electrical controls on capital equipment. Leads Clopay in setting standards and insuring performance for electrical controls systems.

Responsible for managing capital equipment projects from conception to completion including:

• Define project scope, budget and objectives.
• Develop detailed timing plans with functional milestones to support project objectives; execute plan within established timing.
• Manage Project from startup to completion, for new capital equipment.
• Project management and tracking for content/schedule/budget/plant safety.
• Writing of justifications and proposals.
• Develop specification of capital equipment.
• Develop Specification for shop floor data used to drive capital equipment.
• Writing purchase contracts for capital equipment.
• Manage vendors and contractors.
• Provide project updates regularly to stakeholders.
• Reviewing/providing feedback/approving equipment drawings.
• Finalize all as built drawings and documentation.
• Research and analyze best practices in manufacturing concepts and trends for applicability; stay abreast of latest manufacturing technology and leverage technology.
• Research and develop plant improvements projects, safety, machine efficiency, modernization, increase capacity, etc..
• Interfacing with plant personnel.
• Start-up new equipment, including debug.
• Concept and develop solutions for labor and cost reduction as well as quality improvement.
• Develop and lead machine control systems.
• Develop and modify Visual  and Python applications.
• Work directly with equipment vendors in the creation of systems and programming.
• Integration of separate pieces of equipment constituting a manufacturing process or line.
• Provide plant level support for equipment.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Because this position is considered a “Senior Level”, experience in the following areas is required:

• Experience managing capital projects from start to finish
• Experience…