Controls Engineer

Come join our team as a Controls Engineer!

About

Working for Combi isn't just a job, if you're looking to grow with a company who cares about development and understands work life balance, check us out! Here at Combi we offer a multitude of perks that include:

Competitive Salary: We offer a competitive wage based on experience and skills.

Comprehensive Benefits Package: Health, dental, and vision insurance to keep you and your family covered.

Retirement Plans: 401(k) with company match to help you plan for your future.

Paid Time Off: Generous vacation days, sick leave, and paid holidays to support your work-life balance.

Career Development: Opportunities for professional growth with training programs and advancement.

Team Environment: A supportive, collaborative workplace where your contributions are valued.

On-the-Job Training: Learn while you work with hands-on experience and mentorship.

Workplace Safety: A commitment to a safe, clean, and well-equipped work environment.

Wellness Programs: Access to wellness initiatives, including gym memberships or health incentives.

While we offer a range of great perks to support your well-being and career growth, here’s an overview of the key responsibilities you’ll take on in this role.

Summary: The Electrical Controls Engineer designs electrical controls systems in accordance to the customer's needs. This will be done by collaborating with Sales, Engineering teams, and Operations in order to keep our promise to our customer and supply them with an end solution that exceeds their expectations.

Essential Functions: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Create Electrical Schematics, panels, and machine layouts for achieving a quality electrical system.
• Develops engineering design plans by researching, analyzing, selecting, and applying engineering techniques and criteria involving circuit design including parameters, stability, bandwidth, and noise, parasitic effects, impedances, highfrequency behavior, filters, transformations, signals, and amplifier design; adapting and modifying engineering approaches and options; developing and evaluating new engineering approaches; performing circuit, logic, and component designs using Computer Aided Design (CAD) techniques; prepare layouts, block diagrams, and schematics; collaborating with related engineering design teams; evaluating components, materials, and suppliers; identifying and resolving engineering design integration/interface issues; determining and establishing engineering design specifications and safety standards.
• Create detailed parts descriptions for the database.
• Build a detailed bill of material for the purchasing department so materials can be purchased correctly and timely.
• Research Components and determine the correct one for application.
• Designs electrical controls systems that will achieve the customers' specific needs for the machine.
• Confirms electrical system and component capabilities by designing testing methods, testing properties.
• Evaluates electrical systems, products, components, and applications by researching, analyzing, selecting, and applying electrical engineering concepts, approaches, techniques, and criteria, designing, and conducting research programs.
• Analyzes electrical requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
• Communicate and listen to customers to fully understand what the customer needs are so we can continue to build strong customer relations.
• Professionally and respectfully collaborates with inside customers, working together to achieve or exceed each customer's desired expectations.
• Support the Sales/Development Department with preliminary design philosophy to support client relationships and new opportunities.
• Work closely with the client’s team, as well as project manager, and RSM to guarantee a quality system is designed and tested to customers specifications
• Troubleshoot controls and communicates problems during construction and operations to achieve a quality solution.
• Responsible for ensuring Safety requirements are met.
• Follow any other jobrelated duties/functions requested by the supervisor.
• Create and install PLC & HMI programs and all other software needed to make the machine operate as required.
• Travel to customer’s site to assist in the installation or repair of the machine’s electrical system if required
  
  

Work Environment:

This job operates in a professional office setting. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit at a desk. Standing and walking to different departments will be required. The employee will need vision to see close, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus, talk, hear and listen while working on the shop floor with team members or collaborating with the customer.

Position Type And Expected Hours Of Work

This is a full-time position, working Monday through Friday, 7:30 am to 4:00 pm.

Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communications to clearly communicate changes, issues and resolutions.
• Solves complex problems using a sequential system.
• Strengthens alliances with other departments to create opportunities internally and externally.
• Understands the role of the function and how it fits into meeting the goals of the department and company.
• Profits from garnering support for concepts and solutions from other team members and departments.
• Assesses circumstances using experience and a variety of information gathered.
  
  

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree or master’s Degree with focus on engineering and manufacturing.