Electrical Controls Engineer

Position Summary: The Electrical Controls Engineer is responsible for designs, develops, and supervises all aspects of electrical control systems, equipment, and machinery. Responsible for the installation and technical support of PLC based hardware and software. With the ability to research, test, and analyze ideas for possible system and process improvements.

Position responsibilities:

• Be a safety leader with solid safety behaviors and demonstrated leadership.
• Develop electrical design, schematics, panel building, and drawings in AutoCAD.
• Interpret mechanical design drawings for electrical requirements.
• Extensive understanding of Fiber and Ethernet based networks.
• Familiar with alarming, reporting software and remote access applications.
• Development, design, and implementation of data communications systems including surveillance networks and radio systems licensed and unlicensed.
• Broad knowledge of motor control systems including variable frequency drives.
• Research supplier products for assembly components.
• Develop an accumulative Bill of Material (BOM) for drawings and other production needs.
• Data management (e.g., virtual basic, C++, Microsoft SQL servers, HMI servers, PLC servers)
• Help establish new and maintain existing standards.
• Power up electrical systems and configure hardware per application specifications.
• Check the quality of assemblers and technicians' work and respond to inquiries during assembly.
• Familiar with specifications of instrumentation and controls with regulatory standards, design criteria, and code relevant to instrumentation and controls.
• Exposure to multiple PLC manufactures and platforms.
• Extensive knowledge of all instrumentation for flow, temperature, pressure, turbidity, level, gases, and density.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Must have at least 5 years of process automation, instrumentation, and controls design, automation project management, and process automation and controls troubleshooting.
• Excellent computer competence (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, safety process software)
• Must be able to handle several priorities at one time and willingness to work in the field to support and commission systems.
• Strong customer focus mind-set.
• Solid leadership and influencing skills.
• Friendly, results oriented, and collaborative.

Education requirements:

• Electrical Engineering or Technology bachelor's degree with Automation and Instrumentation Controls Engineering or controls related field required.

Travel Requirements:

• N/A

Reporting to this position:

• N/A

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

• Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions prevalent at the time when arriving and departing from the corporate headquarters building. The noise level in the work environment is usually minimal.
• PPE required:

General sign-off: The employee is expected to adhere to all company policies.