Employment Type: Full-time

Available Positions: 1

Location: On-site

Application Deadline: September 20th, 2024

Summary

The Controls & Automation Engineer will be responsible for providing engineering support for the electrical and control systems functions within our operations.

Key Activities

• Manage and execute projects assigned or independently identified, from estimation and planning through completion.
• Evaluate projects and determine descriptions, plans, timelines, resources requirements, costs and other requirements.
• Evaluate, review, and maintain existing electrical control or automated systems to ensure maximum up-time.
• Analyze, develop and maintain reliability maintenance/preventative maintenance procedures as needed.
• Support operations for maximum reliability and up-time.
• Manage user's hardware and software work requests.
• Provide engineering support for existing systems.
• Investigate feasibility and conduct thorough electrical/control analysis to determine potential operational improvements.
• Assessing variety of complex electrical and control issues and applying engineering principles to arrive at solutions to those issues.
• Develop and ensure that guidelines and procedures are followed for software changes and perform PLC programming modifications.
• Create / update process descriptions, operations SOP's, and preventative maintenance procedures.
• Train maintenance and production team members on documentation and equipment operation for newly installed projects and/or new team members that are placed in critical areas.
• Utilize engineering skills to evaluate and implement optimal methods to bridge the gap between design of a product and the final product development.
• Create software design specifications to meet our customer's user requirement specification (URS).
• Work with internal maintenance or engineering team members to diagnose and correct electrical and or controls related problems.
• Adhere to safety and food safety processes and procedures.

Preferred Skills

• Competency with Allen Bradley and/or Siemens PLC's.
• Must be able to remotely work through system issues and decipher logic and resolve in a timely manner.

Educations & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) OR related degree from an accredited university.
• 5 years' experience with controls / electrical engineering in meat processing, food / beverage, packaging, and/or heavy industrial manufacturing plant environment.
• Knowledge of a variety electrical controls and electrical systems.

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Job ID: 7428