Controls Engineer

Location: North Carolina

Overview

The Controls Engineer is responsible for developing and implementing engineering solutions for plant operations, quality, processing and logistics teams, managing projects, and ensuring safe operations for employees and contractors. This position is the plant’s support person for automation, sensors, PLC’s, HMI’s, drives, servos, historian and industrial networks – ProfiBus and Ethernet I/P.

Responsibilities

Possess the skills knowledge and abilities to program PLC’s (primarily Allen Bradley). Diagnoses malfunctioning systems, apparatus, and components, using test equipment and hand tools, to locate the cause of a breakdown and correct the problem. The Controls Engineer will be on call for one week every 5-6 weeks.

Design or development of new process control systems or revision of existing processes; using data collection tools including MES and WonderWare Historian to identify projects which contribute to plant profitability; assist with preparing programs for industrial control systems

• External contacts include consultants and suppliers to determine the compatibility of other systems, products and personnel as they may apply to industrial control systems.
• Prepare data sheets, diagrams and flow charts needed for the correct and efficient operation of the plant equipment.
• Develops and maintains standard operating procedures and work instructions.
• Uses PLC / Controls tools to reduce process variations.
• Analyzes operating problems, develops solutions and leads with implementation of corrective action.
• Receives and collects, interprets and extrapolates data from the production process to monitor current performances against established baselines.
• Making recommendations to improve efficiency.
• Knowledge and ability to troubleshoot and program PLC’s, drives and operator interfaces – Allen Bradley, WonderWare, CTI and Siemens drives.
  
  

Qualifications

• Four-year technical degree preferred or any equivalent combination of experience and/or education from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.
• 5 or more years of progressive designing and commissioning control systems.
• Plant manufacturing experience preferred.
• Proven PLC programming experience (primarily Allen Bradley and CTI).
• Project management experience.
  
  

The client offers a competitive salary package that is dependent on qualifications and experience, as well as a strong benefit package, plus participation in a company-wide bonus plan. For immediate consideration and faster response, please forward current resume to: tony@scientificsearch.com. Please include job # in subject line. Please note that all candidates applying must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident. Client will NOT sponsor.