Associate Controls Engineer

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following. Other duties may be assigned as necessary.
* Provide day-to-day support for all division PLC's and their related hardware, software and equipment.
* Respond to the needs of users concerning the use of the equipment, troubleshooting, problem solving and training.
* Implement standard engineering practices as well as provide detailed documentation upon project completion.
* Recommend architect and develop PLC solutions to meet the needs of the business as it relates to manufacturing operations.
* Design and engineering of programmable logic controls (PLC's) and modifications for a wide variety of manufacturing production equipment and maintain schematics.
* SCADA system and HMI controls development
* Represent and/or Support Engineering team during the R&D phase of new machines and concepts
* Direct electrical assembly activities such as panel fabrication and component wiring
* Specifying and correctly applying a variety of robotic multi-axis motion control platforms
* Machine vision
* Systems integration of 3rd party equipment and peripherals
* Technical writing

* BSEE from an accredited university or college (or equivalent training and experience) and a minimum of 1 year of relevant experience utilizing the skills listed above
* 1 to 3 years of experience working as a PLC technician or engineer designing PLC's and modifications
* Must possess experience in network systems and terminal server.
* Computer and controls programming experience in relevant programming languages including
* Siemens and Allen-Bradley PLC
* Rockwell Software SQL
* Microsoft SQL Database programming
* Human-Machine Interface (HMI) software
* Visual Basic,
* Experience working on Electric Motor Starters, Motion Controllers, Drives, Disconnects and Switch Gears