Summary

Designs systems of electrical and fluid controls for a variety of applications including welders, robots, assembly, conveyance and transfer systems.  Applies expert/expertise knowledge, principles and techniques in engineering and computer science to generate required hardware design schematics and develop software system programming and documentation. 

This is a professional position, requiring resource management skills to direct and monitor tasks of others.  Must be capable of making autonomous decisions based on experience and project requirements.

Has specialized training either formal or through on-the-job work experience.

Has extensive technical knowledge gained through customer and project experience.

Duties and Responsibilities - Hardware

·         Understands customer specifications (corporate and plant), standards, and local and/or national electric codes for use in designing hardware schematics.

·         Constructs electrical and Fluid schematic packages by laying out I/O, designing magnetic circuits, fusing, control panel layouts, bills of material, and cable layouts. 

·         Performs the required sizing calculation for power, heat dissipation, wire sizing, fusing, etc.

·         Performs the required calculations for network layout and traffic analysis.

·         Researches, develops and customizes new hardware and software interfaces.

·         Coordinate and review with Technical Leaders, Automation Engineers, Sr. Controls Engineers, and colleagues to maintain consistency within a given project.

·         Checks hardware schematics detail work of Entry Level Controls Engineers

·         Works within the scope definition and timing (due date) requirements.

Duties and Responsibilities - Software

·         Understands customer specifications (corporate and plant) along with standards for use in designing software programs.

·         Researches, develops and customizes new hardware and software interfaces.

·         Modifies existing logic for ‘kit’ designs, and create logic utilizing existing references on simple to intermediate complexity systems.

·         Must be capable of developing Human Machine Interface (HMI) screens and interface from scratch.

·         Coordinate and review with Technical Leaders, Automation Engineers, Sr. Controls Engineers, and colleagues to maintain consistency within a given project.

·         Checks Logic and HMI work of Entry Level Controls Engineers

·         Works within the scope definition and timing (due date) requirements.

Knowledge & Skills

·         Computers — Knowledge of Windows, and Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.) and a high degree of competence with AutoCAD / ePlan.  High degree of competence in HMIs along with Control and Safety PLCs (Allen Bradley, Siemen’s, Modicon, Dynex etc.) and associated application software.

·         Mathematics — Knowledge of basic arithmetic, base 2 (binary), base 16 (hexadecimal), base 8 (octal) and Real (floating point) numbering systems and their applications.  Knowledge of Word / Bit addressing schemes.  Knowledge of logical operators (i.e. AND, OR, NOT, XOR).

·         Mechanical — Knowledge of machines, tools, and print reading. An understanding of mechanical systems, their components, and the relationship of those systems to the controls design.

·         Originality — The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop cre