Job Title: Controls Programmer

Job Description

We are hiring a Controls Design Engineer for the Production Engineering group. This team focuses on manufacturing automated equipment for North American manufacturing facilities. The role involves providing high-quality, reasonably priced, and on-time hardware, software, and safety design solutions to ensure the stable introduction of new models and technologies.

Responsibilities

• Work in an engineering team atmosphere to understand design requirements and create/modify automated production equipment.
• Provide electrical design to produce engineering hardware data necessary to assemble, build, and wire a control system for production equipment.
• Provide electrical design to produce engineering software data to accomplish control tasks for production equipment processes, including PLC, HMI, Motion Control, and Robotic programming.
• Provide on-site support to install, system up, and mature the control system for production equipment.
• Create and maintain a critical path schedule for work assignments to produce control system design deliverables and achieve overall project milestones for small to medium projects with low to medium complexity.
• Conduct and attend design reviews to ensure design standards are achieved and specifications are met for work assignment deliverables.
• Continuously apply an engineering mindset to learn new skills, processes, and technologies to expand knowledge in relevant manufacturing technologies.

Essential Skills

• Autocad
• Electrical engineering
• Controls design
• Controls engineering
• Robotics
• 5 years of experience
• PLC knowledge (Allen Bradley, Mitsubishi, Omron)
• PLC programming from scratch and troubleshooting
• Experience designing electrical schematics
• Autocad Electrical
• Electrical design
• Control panel design
• Control system design

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Ability to travel to other plants in Georgia, Indiana, Alabama, Canada, and Mexico (20% travel)
• Overtime work (average 10 hours per week)
• Occasional weekend work

Work Environment

The work environment includes automated equipment manufacturing. The role requires 20% travel and occasional weekend work. Long-term consultant-to-hire opportunities are available.