Associate Controls Engineer

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following. Other duties may be assigned as necessary.
•    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

Education and Qualifications

•    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 above
•    1 to 3 years of experience working as a PLC technician or engineer designing PLC’s and modifications
•    Must possess experience in network systems and terminal server.
•    Computer and controls programming experience in relevant programming languages including 
•    Siemens and Allen-Bradley PLC
•    Rockwell Software SQL
•    Microsoft SQL Database programming
•    Human-Machine Interface (HMI) software
•    Visual Basic,
•    Experience working on Electric Motor Starters, Motion Controllers, Drives, Disconnects and Switch Gears