Controls System Engineer, NA Field Engineering

Responsibilities

• Dive deep and works to help solve critical design issues involving algorithm, develop hardware/firmware interfaces, IoT interfaces, etc.
• Participate in design reviews for complex control systems, simulations, algorithms and software development owned by your team, partner teams and vendors.
• Influences within your team and partner teams to help drive and develop the technical implementation for overall system designs.
• Identify and implement process improvements which improve your team’s agility.
• This may include improvements to design, automation, development, test or operations.
• Simultaneously manage multiple high-visibility projects and tasks while effectively influencing, negotiating, and communicating with internal and external business partners, contractors and vendors.
• Review new, advanced technology being introduced for MHE systems with a focus on machine software including electrical and controls interfacing requirements.
• Provide technical guidance and decision making for collaboration projects or initiatives with other Amazon teams, being a key stakeholder in supporting technical and major network support requests.
• Understand control systems for material handling, including Allen Bradley PLCs, IPCs , barcode scanners and industrial networks such as Ethernet, safety over ethernet IP.
• Apply Subject Matter Expertise (SME) on troubleshooting and dive deeps for engineering issues, supporting local teams to investigate the root cause and planning actions to eliminate/mitigate the downtime of critical assets.
• Able to travel up to 80%.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of PLC programming experience
• 3+ years of industrial controls and automation experience
• 2+ years of PLC/SCADA integration experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, automation engineering, or equivalent, or 5+ years of professional or military experience