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Controls Engineer 3

HS Inc

Controls Engineer 3

Grand Rapids, MI
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

    • Manage time efficiently and continually improve personal work ethic.

    • Effectively handle competing priorities.

    • Practice and encourage safety-conscious design processes.

    • Work cooperatively and jointly within a team to provide quality products.

    • Maintain and promote a positive attitude toward customers and team members.

    • Work with cross-functional team to complete projects on time while meeting planned budget.

    • Communicate with team members, management, and customers regarding job progress and identify potential issues.

    • Understanding of programming languages.

    • Practice and encourage safety-conscious design processes.

    • Assign project tasks to team members to ensure project milestones are met.

    • Develop bills of material.

    • Provide technical project insight, advice, and support.

    • Design, implement and install machine controls and interfaces for automated equipment including but not limited to: safety systems, PLCs, HMIs, peripheral devices, MES systems, and PC based logic.

    • Mentor team members to continually raise department’s expertise.

    • Design electrical and pneumatic schematics.

    • Lead controls package design for medium and large machines.

    • Design controls packages that are safe, accurate, and meet project scope,

    • Ensure that equipment is designed and programmed to customer and HS Inc. design specifications using standard techniques.

    • Interpret mechanical design drawings for electrical requirements.

    • Troubleshoot and resolve hardware and software issues.

    • Trusted to travel to customer sites for installation, startup of equipment, and training.

    • Provide leadership of controls team members during customer site visits.

    • May perform other duties are assigned or required

    QUALIFICATIONS & EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

    • High School Diploma or equivalent.

    • PREFERRED: Bachelors of engineering in mechanical, electrical, computer or related field and 5+ years’ experience in an engineering role dealing with automated equipment

    • Intermediate to expert proficiency in PLC/ladder logic programming.

    • Intermediate to expert proficiency in CAD software.

    • Intermediate to expert proficiency in electrical and pneumatic design.

    • Intermediate to expert proficiency in various software languages.

    • Experience with robotic integration, vision systems, and handshaking between various peripheral systems.

    • Experience troubleshooting automated equipment involving hardware and software issues.

    You should be proficient in:

    • Electrical Schematics
    • Electrical Troubleshooting
    • Pneumatics
    • CAD
    • Robotics

    Machines & technologies you'll use:

    • Vision System
    • CAD Software
    • Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)