Controls Engineer
Columbia, MO, US, 65201-8263
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
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 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