Senior Controls Engineer- Parcel

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.

• Verify customer specification documentation including meeting with both client and internal project teams to define applications and produce functional specification or description of operation documents.
• Lead training/mentoring of co‑op personnel and junior engineers on design process, system commissioning, and department methods by and delegates project tasks as appropriate.
• Lead large projects by defining and issuing work to assigned team members with minimal supervision.
• Run multiple small projects performed by others with minimal supervision.
• Maintain a project schedule and ensure the project team meets milestones.
• Maintain the project forecast for resources, materials, and expenses.
• Meet or exceed the financial budget for resources, materials, and expenses.
• Direct and assign teammates as well as assign priorities to meet the project needs.
• Generate project‑specific documentation using standard company formats.
• Review electrical design and communication architecture diagrams, providing feedback to electrical engineers.
• Design interfaces to devices such as network I/O, variable speed drives, camera/laser scanner , and scales. Customize standard products to meet the requirements of each project.
• Design interfaces to WCS or WES software systems.
• Use automation programming software to create PLC programs for automating machinery.
• Configure standard PLC programs for real‑time control of automated equipment and collection of diagnostic and production data.
• Generate 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.
• Create application programs for Human Machine Interface (HMI) screen design.
• Conduct 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.
• Participate and lead design reviews with project teams.
• Perform on‑site technical checkout, often working with installation teams.
• Perform on‑site system commissioning at client sites to validate controls design.
• Provide customer training and support during project turnover to the end user.
• Provide continuing support for finished projects.
• Ensure all project checklists and as‑built documentation created by the…