Automation & Controls Engineer

Automation & Controls Engineer

Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

To perform this job successfully, the individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

• Design, implement, and optimize automation solutions, including advanced conveyor and pick-and-place systems and precision material handling.
• Support the engineering of automation and controls on new and existing equipment. 
• Integrate a wide range of controls components such as PLCs and/or SCADA systems, motion controllers, machine vision systems, heater controllers, web edge guiding and steering mechanisms, pneumatic actuators, encoders, force sensors, thermocouples, analog devices, and various location, distance, and material presence sensors.
• Support electrical control box engineering, standards compliance, assembly, modification, and documentation upkeep. 
• Develop, deploy, and maintain revision control of electrical and software changes on large tool sets where the hardware and software must be copied exactly. 
• Develop and execute test plans to verify machine functionality and reliability. 
• Provide timely and accurate project status, documentation, and training. 
• Troubleshoot down equipment, including finding the root cause of failures and engineering solutions to correct them. 
• Work closely with equipment vendors throughout all phases of a project’s development on controls and software requirements and related issues. 
• Support factory expansion efforts, including vendor acceptance testing, equipment commissioning and process qualification. 
• Live the company culture of integrity, teamwork, self-discipline and professional competence

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills and Abilities): 

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Experience/Education:

• BS in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or similar educational background;
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in Automation & Controls Engineering or similar field

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Advanced control system engineering and programming of complex process tools and automation primarily using Beckhoff, Mitsubishi, and Omron PLC’s, Windows and Linux PC’s, C#, Python and SQL.
• Expert level troubleshooting of all facets of automated systems.
• Knowledge of manufacturing executions systems including direct experience integrating equipment data streams into factory information databases.
• Advanced knowledge of process control and implementation of real time data acquisition.
• Must be a self-starter with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Ability to influence others and collaboratively gain consensus using supportive data.
• Ability and willingness to work hands-on.
• Ability to travel 10%.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

Working Conditions/Hours: 

Salaried Exempt

Physical Demands – Office and Manufacturing Environment 

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls. The employee is required to stand, walk, sit, reach with hands and arms and pull/push; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must lift and/or move up to 50 pounds without assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment –  

Includes both a typical office environment, with minimal exposure to excessive noise or adverse environmental issues, and a shop environment, with exposure to high noise levels from operating machines, physical hazards from moving equipment and machine parts, nuisance dust, and skin exposure to chemicals used to run/maintain machines

PPE-

May be required to wear Personal Protective Equipment, including but not limited to safety glasses, safety shoes, bump-caps, gloves, hair nets, masks, & clean-room frocks while adhering to the prescribed safety procedures