Job Description
Our client in Towanda, PA is seeking a qualified Electrical Automation Engineer. This role is responsible for driving the identification, development and industrialization of modern electrical technologies, providing technical assistance leading to people safety and assets efficiency, and supporting building people capabilities to enable their factory to produce affordable, high quality products.
Primary responsibilities:
• You will assess and analyze current conditions related to the electrical, instrumentation and automation areas, bringing a systematic and sustainable plan to ensure our facility complies with engineering foundations.
• You will execute improvement projects with the full participation of others in the factory as well as other support teams like Quality, Manufacturing, and IT
• You will apply new standards working closely with in house Engineers and Maintenance Personnel
• You will research, experiment and implement with new and existing Process Control and Advanced Process Control (APC) systems, including new technologies like machine learning, data analytics, vision systems and robotics
• You will lead market networks in the Electricity & Automation areas of expertise to provide capability building for the regional technical community
• You will support many capital investment projects either directly or coordinating external resources
Key Interfaces
• You will interact regularly with Engineering, Maintenance and Operations managers, Project managers, Production supervisors, Quality management teams, Safety & environment teams, Continuous improvement teams, Suppliers, Contractors, and the Hourly workforce
Financial/strategic impact:
• You will work to reduce factory losses improving the yield of production lines and reducing unplanned machine stoppages.
• You will deliver capital investment projects on time and within the defined budget, taking responsibility on the technical solutions applied
Qualifications & requirements:
• Bachelor of Science in Engineering, preferably electrical and/or automation engineering/technology or equivalent
• Strong communication and willing to work as a standout colleague
• Bring business insight in a technical environment
• Programming experience in software development context.
• Exposure to automated data collection, databases, visualization, quality and efficiency in manufacturing, SCADA, automated decision control
• Exposure to enterprise level large-scale applications
• Experience with Industrial Networks
• Experience with SQL programming and databases
• Experience with IT environment or organization
• Experience to application integration to factory floor equipment
Required Experience:
• Minimum 5 years industry experience in software development, programming, or engineering discipline
• Experience with one or more of the following systems – HMI, Siemens PLC, MES applications
• Experience with advanced analytics, machine learning, vision systems or robotics are a plus
Professional Skills:
• Result driven
• Analytical skills in problem solving - ability to think objectively through various options and scenarios
• Strong conflict resolution and transversal leadership skills
• Strong technical skills
• Ability to adapt quickly to changes
• Knowledge of process driven industries
• Passionate about new technologies
Beneficial Talent Source is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or becoming an employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.
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