ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Manage time efficiently and continually improve personal work ethic.
Effectively handle competing priorities.
Practice and encourage safety-conscious design processes.
Manage resources to provide quality products.
Maintain and promote a positive attitude toward customers and team members.
Direct controls engineers within cross-functional teams to complete projects on time while meeting planned budget.
Communicate with department management, project 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.
Analyze department efficiency and identify training and growth opportunities.
Develop controls engineers and identify leaders.
Monitor BOM’s and work with purchasing team to identify ways to save cost and lead time.
Provide technical project insight, advice, and support.
Direct teams to 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.
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 7+ years’ experience in an engineering/technician role dealing with automated equipment
7+ years’ experience troubleshooting automated equipment involving hardware and software issues.
Expert proficiency in PLC/ladder logic programming.
Expert proficiency in CAD software.
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:
Machines & technologies you'll use: