Job Purpose
An Associate Controls Engineer plays a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining control systems used in manufacturing, automation, or industrial processes.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day support for all division PLC’s and their related hardware, software and equipment.
- Respond to the needs of users concerning the use of the equipment, troubleshooting, problem solving and training.
- Implement standard engineering practices as well as provide detailed documentation upon project completion.
- Recommend architect and develop PLC solutions to meet the needs of the business as it relates to manufacturing operations.
- Design and engineering of programmable logic controls (PLC’s) and modifications for a wide variety of manufacturing production equipment and maintain schematics.
- SCADA system and HMI controls development
- Represent and / or Support Engineering team during the R&D phase of new machines and concepts
- Direct electrical assembly activities such as panel fabrication and component wiring\
- Specifying and correctly applying a variety of robotic multi-axis motion control platforms
- Machine vision
- Systems integration of 3rd party equipment and peripherals
- Technical writing
Job Qualifications / Requirements
BSEE from an accredited university or college (or equivalent training and experience) and a minimum of 1 year of relevant experience utilizing the skills listed above1 to 3 years of experience working as a PLC technician or engineer designing PLC’s and modificationsMust possess experience in network systems and terminal server.Computer and controls programming experience in relevant programming languages includingSiemens and Allen-Bradley PLCRockwell Software SQLMicrosoft SQL Database programmingHuman-Machine Interface (HMI) software Visual Basic,Experience working on Electric Motor Starters, Motion Controllers, Drives, Disconnects and Switch Gears