What are the responsibilities and job description for the Electrical Engineer_PLC Programming position at ARi?
ARi, headquartered in East Peoria, IL, USA, is a rapidly expanding global engineering enterprise. The essence of our “i” symbolizes our distinctiveness from competitors – an embodiment of innovation, intelligence, ingenuity, and insight. Boasting a diverse team of over 1,500 engineering experts hailing from various nations and cultures across the globe, we are excellently poised to provide intricate and personalized resolutions to our esteemed clients.
Duties & Responsibilities
At ARi, our commitment to our employees goes beyond the workplace, ensuring comprehensive benefits. From day one, full-time employees enjoy group health, dental, and life insurance coverage. Additionally, vision coverage is accessible starting the following month.
Recognizing the significance of rejuvenation, we provide paid time off, sick days, company holidays, and maternity/paternity leave to our full-time staff. In times of loss, we also offer bereavement support. Furthermore, a
401(k) program is maintained for eligible employees.
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Duties & Responsibilities
- Identify retrofit opportunities, scope projects, and support proposal creation via Dealer and Factory teams
- Perform technical risk management for field performance of assigned projects.
- Convert legacy PLC projects to new platforms and validate for accuracy.
- Execute and support design, test, manufacture and commissioning of low and medium voltage switchgear controls retrofits for systems that control multiple generators which parallel to one or more utility sources.
- Provide direction to CAD designers to create wiring and assembly drawings for generator paralleling controls.
- Utilize templates or modify PLC programs for control of generator paralleling switchgear.
- Modify template HMI programs to coincide with project-specific PLC programs.
- Provide Engineering/Technical support to AES (Advanced Electrical Services) Sales Group.
- Submit daily project reports and expenses in a timely manner.
- Assist the Product Support Center help desk to resolve customer issues that cannot be handled locally.
- As needed, assists or trains technicians, and both internal and external customers, in preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, and testing of equipment under contract with Caterpillar Switchgear.
- Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE), Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology (BSEET) with a minimum of 2 years of experience or minimum of 4 years equivalent work experience.
- Experience in dealing with multiple disciplines such as contractors, consultants, engineers, end users, etc.
- Working knowledge of the following:
- Installation, troubleshooting, and design of switchgear, ATS, and generator systems.
- Reading schematics and blueprints for power control and automation at a Power Systems level
- Installation, troubleshooting, design and programming of automated control systems using Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC’s), Human Machine Interfaces (HMI’s), PC controls, and distributed processing.
- Computer and software troubleshooting
- PLC Software Experience
- Modicon/Schneider electric
- Rockwell/Bradley
- Siemens
- GE
- HMI Software Experience (a plus, but not required)
- Position requires travel, typically between 35 – 50%, to support projects or staff.
- Requires a valid driver’s license with an acceptable driving record
At ARi, our commitment to our employees goes beyond the workplace, ensuring comprehensive benefits. From day one, full-time employees enjoy group health, dental, and life insurance coverage. Additionally, vision coverage is accessible starting the following month.
Recognizing the significance of rejuvenation, we provide paid time off, sick days, company holidays, and maternity/paternity leave to our full-time staff. In times of loss, we also offer bereavement support. Furthermore, a
401(k) program is maintained for eligible employees.
#MON
