Engineer- Controls I USA (B Crew/PM Shift)

About the role

The position is an entry-level corporate controls engineer supporting manufacturing operations. The successful candidate will work in a 6:00AM - 6:10PM AM shift with a rotating 36/48-hour work week schedule, including every other Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Responsibilities

• Supports manufacturing facilities, including remote support of worldwide manufacturing facilities.
• Designs, programs, and coordinates small-scale control systems and projects.
• Aids with coordination of new equipment installation and implementation.
• Maintains and updates manufacturing process tool electrical drawings, ensuring equipment changes are documented and drawings are current.
• Troubleshoots and solves equipment controls-related issues.
• Communicates effectively with multiple departments to ensure compliance with corporate controls policies and standards.
• Assists senior engineers on large projects.
• Maintains effective communication levels and fosters team building.
• Ensures adherence to all safety procedures and good housekeeping standards.

Requirements

• Associates/Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field; or equivalent years of work experience.
• Minimum 1 – 5 years of manufacturing equipment controls engineering experience.
• Understands controls engineering techniques and practices for global facilities.
• Ability to trouble-shoot electrical/electronic control systems.
• Knowledge of global manufacturing processes and safety requirements.
• Proficiency in AutoDesk AutoCad drafting software.
• Programming experience with Rockwell Automation Logix platform PLC’s, HMI, ControlNet, DeviceNet, Profibus, and Ethernet.
• Understanding of robotic systems, including programming, safety requirements, and design/implementation practices.
• Basic knowledge of computer hardware/applications and Microsoft Office.
• Brief understanding of corporate Ethernet and server architectures.
• Effective communication skills, both oral and written.
• Strong problem-solving skills.

Key Competencies

• Understands client requirements, collects data, delivers analysis, and problem resolution.
• Evaluates and recommends options, implementing if required.
• Facilitates stakeholder groups, as part of formal or informal consultancy agreements.
• Enhances the capabilities and effectiveness of client personnel by ensuring proposed solutions are properly understood and appropriately exploited.
• Gains an up-to-date knowledge of relevant IT fields and contributes to research goals.
• Identifies opportunities provided by new technology to address challenges or enable new ways of working.
• Works to further organizational goals by using emerging technologies and products.
• Contributes to briefings and presentations about their relevance and potential value to the organization.
• Specifies user/system interfaces and translates logical designs into physical designs, taking account of target environment, performance requirements, and existing systems.
• Produces detailed designs and documents all work using required standards, methods, and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate.
• Codes, tests, corrects, and documents moderately complex programs and program modifications from supplied specifications, using agreed standards and tools.
• Assists with the collection of safety assurance evidence, undertaking all work in accordance with agreed safety, technical, and quality standards, using appropriate methods and tools.
• Identifies and reports issues and risks associated with own work.
• Performs, analyzes, and documents evaluations according to a plan, excluding expert reviews.
• Defines the integration build and produces a build definition for generation of the software.
• Accepts software modules from software developers, produces software builds for loading onto the target hardware from software source code.
• Configures the hardware environment, produces integration test specifications, conducts tests, and records the details of any failures.
• Carrries out and reports fault diagnosis relating to moderately complex problems.
• Configures software and equipment and tests platform-specific versions of one or more software products.
• Reports the outcome of testing and identifies potential improvements to the process and to the software products according to agreed designs and standards.
• Installs or removes hardware and/or software, using supplied installation instructions and tools, including handover to the client.
• Conducts tests, corrects malfunctions, and documents results in accordance with agreed procedures.
• Reports details of all hardware/software items that have been installed and removed so that configuration management records can be updated.
• Provides assistance to users in a professional manner following agreed procedures for further help or escalation.
• Maintains accurate records of user requests, contact details, and outcomes.
• Contributes to the development of installation procedures and standards.
• Uses system management software and tools to collect agreed performance statistics.
• Carrries out agreed system software maintenance tasks.
• Carries out agreed applications maintenance tasks.
• Carries out agreed operational procedures of a routine nature.
• Contributes to maintenance, installation, and problem resolution.
• Initiates and monitors actions to investigate and resolve problems in systems and services.
• Assists with the implementation of agreed remedies and preventative measures.
• Receives and handles requests for support following agreed procedures. Responds to requests for support by providing information to enable incident resolution and promptly allocates unresolved calls as appropriate.
• Maintains records and advises relevant persons of actions taken.