Controls/Electrical Engineer - Buffalo Trace Distillery

Job Description/Responsibilities

• Organize workloads, provide technical support, and manage work quality for responsible areas to ensure at least a 95% uptime through support of preventive/reactive maintenance, project management, systems control, and general engineering.
• Lead the development of a production automation plan for BTD that will help specify and develop hardware and software platforms throughout the distillery.
• Support production through the implementation and continued support of these systems as we work to develop an expandable control and monitoring system facility wide.
• Identify and lead cost savings initiatives within the organization.
• Support the overall facility safety program through excellence in project management, maintenance, problem identification, and supervision and participate in the Crisis Management Project and become SME on maintenance related items with the CM plan by understanding potential crises and appropriate responses.
• Trains and supervises 3 - 5 Electrical/Instrumentation technicians that support the facilities and electrical/automation needs.
• Evaluates employee performance and skill level to determine skill improvement needs and develops improvement plans to address.
• Creates and develops a personal development plan with Plant Engineer to improve a skill/competency that will develop personal skills and improve performance.
• Ensures adherence to Personal Safety, Food Safety, Quality and Environmental Policies and Practices.
• Leads the development and on-going updates of SOP's and processes related to MRO inventory and preventive maintenance scheduling.
• Maintains the documentation system, MP2, for data collection during repairs and PM activities in order to monitor deterioration rates and identify critical failure points.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Must Engineering or related degree or equivalent experience
• 5 years relevant experience (minimum)
• Ability to manage multiple projects at one time
• 3 years hands on electrical experience, Allen Bradley PLC programming and hardware experience, equipment trouble shooting experience
• BSEE, BSEET, ASEE, ASEET or equivalent experience
• Working knowledge of MS Office Products (Word, Excel and Outlook)
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong planning and organizational skills

Physical Requirements

• Ability to pick up and/or move objects up to 50 pounds without assistance.
• Ability to work overtime if necessary.
• Ability to work 8 hour shift.
• In-person job attendance.
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to read and write.
• Ability to work near moving mechanical parts.
• Ability to pay attention to detail.
• Ability to pay attention to detail.
• Noise level at work station is loud (metal can manufacturing, large earth moving equipment).
• Ability to work with the risk of electrical shock.