Senior Controls Engineer- Parcel

Location: Olde West Chester

Position

Description:


TREW is a provider of Automated Equipment, Control Systems and Warehouse Execution Software. As a Senior Controls Engineer, you will design and implement electrical controls systems for automated material handling equipment. This is project/application-based work that includes development of specifications, review electrical drawings, and creation of PLC/PAC logic. Project design and testing will take place in the office. Completed work is installed and tested at the clients' facility.
You must be self-motivated, dedicated and possess a strong sense of initiative. You must have the ability to easily adapt to changing situations and have a strong technical background in electrical and controls systems. Candidates must have a strong task-based skillset with a focus on organization, time-management, and prioritization. Candidates will have excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal and customer service skills plus the ability to collaborate effectively with a wide range of people at all levels of expertise.
As a Senior Controls Engineer, you will be involved in projects from the concept phase through design, programming, testing and onsite support. You will serve as the primary technical contact for a project. You will have direct interaction with clients throughout each project. You will work closely with Mechanical Engineering, Controls Engineering and Project Management. On large projects, you will work within a design team and for smaller projects you will work on your own with supervision from team leaders, project engineers, project managers and your supervisor.

Duties / Responsibilities:
Verifies customer specification documentation including meeting with both client and internal project teams to define applications and produce functional specification or description of operation documents
Leads training/mentoring of co-op personnel and junior engineers on design process, system commissioning, and department methods by and delegates project tasks as appropriate
Leads large projects by defining and issuing work to assigned team members with minimal supervision
Runs multiple small projects performed by others with minimal supervision
Maintains a project schedule and ensures the project team meets milestones
Maintains the project forecast for resources, materials, and expenses
Meets or exceeds the financial budget for resources, materials, and expenses
Directs and assigns teammates as well as assigns priorities to meet the project needs
Generating project specific documentation using standard company formats
Reviews electrical design and communication architecture diagrams, providing feedback to electrical engineers Designs interfaces to devices such as network I/O, variable speed drives, camera/laser scanner  and scales. Customizing standard products to meet the requirements of each project
Designs interfaces to WCS or WES software systems
Uses automation programming software to create PLC programs for automating machinery
Configuring standard PLC programs for real-time control of automated equipment and collection of diagnostic and production data.
Generates new PLC programs, methods and standards
Develop application programs to control automated equipment based upon specific electrical and mechanical system design as well as operational requirements.
Creating application programs for Human Machine Interface (HMI) screen design
Conducts in-house preliminary testing and onsite testing of the system as installed at the customer's facility.
Interact with mechanical and electrical engineering during project design reviews
Work closely with electrical, mechanical and software engineers to integrate project solutions
Work closely with software engineers to integrate controls solutions
Participating and leading design reviews with project teams
Performs on-site technical checkout, often working with installation teams
Performs on-site system commissioning at client sites to validate controls design
Provides customer training and support during project turnover to the end user
Provides continuing support for finished projects
Ensures all project checklists and 'as-built' documentation created by the team is complete and archived at project completion
Assists engineering leadership in completion of work-flow process and updates work-flow instructions
Reports project status to the project managers and department supervisor/manager
Directs assigned team in the field and assigns priorities consistent with project requirements
Identifies methods and tools to improve efficiency
Provides customer facing technical expertise, often as a program lead, focusing on standardization across a particular client base or product portfolio.

Required Skills/ Abilities:
Ability to multi-task and maintain deadlines while ensuring quality in a collaborative, team-oriented environment
Ability to lead a team and accomplish project goals
Self-motivated, with the ability to operate independently and with minimal supervision
Must have good…