Senior Controls Engineer- Parcel

Senior Controls Engineer

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…