What are the responsibilities and job description for the Controls Engineer position at Oliver Healthcare Packaging?
Position Summary
The Controls Engineer will continuously improve the safety, quality, and efficiency of the plant's manufacturing processes in order to meet or exceed customer expectations. Responsible to ensure priorities and performance are aligned with the company's strategic direction.
A technical and hands-on position requiring work in individual and team settings, contributing to all aspects of corporate efficiency and continuity. Project management, design review, testing, implementation, validation, and ongoing support of systems solutions.
Primary Responsibilities / Essential Function
Safety
Ensure that new equipment and modifications to existing equipment are designed to minimize safety hazards. Ensure that all manufacturing equipment is operated in the safest possible manner.
Ensure that manufacturing and converting processes incorporate safe work practice and limit the risk of ergonomic injury.
Quality
Design systems to deliver high process capability levels through thoughtful analysis and investments in new equipment and upgrades to existing processes.
Partner with Process Engineering, Maintenance, Manufacturing, and Quality to validate new manufacturing equipment and upgrades to existing equipment. Author technical documents such as engineering studies and validation protocols and reports.
Leverage the company's systems and standards for procedures, work instructions, document management, equipment drawings, electrical schematics, and employee training.
Ensure quality problems are quickly identified, contained, eliminated, and prevented from recurring.
Process
Research and design electrical system upgrades (software / hardware / mechanical) for converting processes and equipment.
Identify, justify, and execute engineering projects to improve quality and cost performance including automation opportunities and defect reduction.
Apply working knowledge of PLC / HMI programming, sensors, hydraulics, pneumatics, drives, and other electro-mechanical systems to troubleshoot and improve manufacturing processes.
Implement process controls and data monitoring methodologies to increase equipment reliability and error proof processes.
Provide responsive technical support to the manufacturing operation; diagnose electrical and mechanical issues and resolve.
Leverage project management principles and technical ability to lead engineering controls projects throughout the manufacturing plant.
Basic Qualifications
Education :
B.S. in Electrical, Mechanical, Manufacturing Engineering or closely related field
Experience :
Experience -
Process Engineer - 1 - 4 years
Sr. Process Engineer - 5 years
Other Requirements :
Strong mechanical and electrical aptitude, including experience with Allen Bradley PLC programming
Experience with electronic and information systems including network communications, vision systems, and other data collection systems.
Proactive, flexible, resourceful, and team oriented individual.
CAD experience
Microsoft Office skills and experience in enterprise applications.
Preferred Qualifications
Education and / or Experience :
B.S. degree
3-5 years minimum experience in closely related function
Working Conditions
Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
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