Controls Engineer

About the role

The Electrical Controls Engineer provides direction, coordination, and support for the daily execution of the electrical crew’s operating plan. Working with the Maintenance Manager, Maintenance Engineer, Planner, Maintenance Technicians, Operations, and Safety, the Electrical Supervisor drives department productivity and quality of workmanship for the purpose of increasing overall availability and reliability of equipment.

Responsibilities

• Safety comes first for yourself and for all activities
• Supporting our maintenance department in troubleshooting, installing, and maintaining plant equipment
• Making or managing control/electrical system changes as requested by Safety, production, R&D, Environmental, or other departments and engineers, for process modifications, improvements, production trials, etc., may include programming and/or hardware changes
• Supporting capital and plant projects for new or existing equipment including getting bids, hiring and managing contractor personnel and engineering firms, quoting, selecting, and purchasing electrical and process equipment and controls, programming for new systems, equipment commissioning and start up, projects may include some travel for new equipment purchases and acceptance testing, seeing equipment in other JH plants, etc.
• Maintaining and updating electrical drawings and standards
• Historian and SQL server work for data collection, monitoring, and reporting
• Supporting off-site engineers and IT with local technical issues or new upgrades
• Developing plans for plant outages and other projects
• Overseeing electrical requirements for insurance policy compliance, electrical testing and contingency plans

The position responsibilities outlined above are in no way to be construed as all encompassing. Other duties, responsibilities, and qualifications may be required and/or assigned as necessary.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (preferred) or equivalent combination of experience and education.
• 2 or more years of experience in a continuous operating (24/7) manufacturing environment.
• CMMS skills with MP2 or other type of program.
• Significant experience with PLC’s, Wonderware, RSview, AB Drives, and Device net.

Skills

• PLCs with local and remote I/O, Allen Bradley (AB) Controllogix, but also other AB product groups.
• Safety systems for plant equipment, safety PLCs, class 3 and