Engineer- Controls II USA

• ✓Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field; or equivalent years of work experience.
• ✓Minimum 6 years of manufacturing equipment controls engineering experience.

• ✓Proven understanding/knowledge and experience in controls engineering techniques and practices which would be required for global facilities including North America, Asian, and European countries.
• ✓Proven understanding/knowledge and ability to trouble-shoot electrical/electronic control systems.
• ✓Proven understanding/knowledge of global manufacturing processes and safety requirements.
• ✓Proven experience using Auto Desk AutoCad drafting software to create electrical schematic and panel layouts.
• ✓Good understanding/knowledge programming of Rockwell Automation Logix platform PLC’s, including ladder and function block diagram.
• ✓Good understanding/knowledge programming Rockwell Automation Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) including PanelView Plus, PanelView Plus CE, and RSView SE.
• ✓Good understanding/knowledge designing, programming, and commissioning at least two control network including ControlNet, DeviceNet, Profibus and/or Ethernet.
• ✓Proven understanding/knowledge of robotic systems including programming, safety requirements, and design/implementation practices.
• ✓Good understanding/knowledge of motion controls including stepper motors, servo motors, and AC/DC Drives.
• ✓Good understanding/knowledge of Cognex vision camera configuration and programming experience.
• ✓Proven understanding of computer hardware/applications and the Microsoft Office family.
• ✓Some knowledge of working in server environment.
• ✓Some Microsoft SQL Server Database configuration experience.
• ✓Experience in at least one multi-tiered architecture using C#, VB.NET, HTML, XML and SQL.
• ✓Understanding/knowledge of Corporate Ethernet architectures and systems.
• ✓Excellent communications skills both oral and written.
• ✓Good problem-solving skills.

Essential

• ◆Primary

• ◆Responsible for global support of manufacturing facilities.
• ◆Responsible to assist with global coordination of new equipment installation and implementation.
• ◆Responsible to assist with global communication between manufacturing process equipment and SQL database.
• ◆Responsible for maintaining and updating of manufacturing process tool electrical drawings globally, ensuring the tracking of equipment changes is documented and drawings are kept current.
• ◆Responsible for the successful design and theory behind majority of manufacturing control systems, ensuring new process tools adhere to corporate controls standards and best practices.
• ◆Responsible for globally troubleshooting and problem solving equipment controls related issues and recommending controls policy/standard changes, if possible, to prevent future issues with new manufacturing process tools.
• ◆Responsible to interface with multiple departments within the organization and external suppliers to ensure corporate controls policies/standards are understood and being adhered to.
• ◆Evaluates new proposed equipment controls systems to MES

and provides recommendations to vendor and/or internally.

• ✓Maintain effective global communications levels and fosters team building.
• ✓Ensures adherence to all safety procedures and good housekeeping standards.
• ✓Responsible for designing, programming, and coordination of small, mid, and some large scale control systems and projects.
• ✓Key Competencies:
• ✓Takes responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution. Identifies, evaluates and recommends options, implementing if required. Collaborates with, and facilitates stakeholder groups, as part of formal or informal consultancy agreements. Seeks to fully address client needs, enhancing the capabilities and effectiveness of client personnel, by ensuring that proposed solutions are properly understood and appropriately exploited.
• ✓Maintains knowledge of specific technical specialisms, provides detailed advice regarding their application and executes specialized tasks. The specialism can be any area of information or communication technology, technique, method, product or application area.
• ✓Agrees research goals and generates original and worthwhile ideas in a specialized IT field. Develops, reviews and constructively criticizes ideas, possibly leading a small research team, making necessary observations and tests and carrying them through to a full practical demonstration, wherever viable and feasible. Where necessary, designs data collection tools and techniques for both qualitative and quantitative data. Presents papers at conferences, writes papers of publication quality, and presents reports to clients.
• ✓Actively monitors for, and seeks, opportunities, new methods and trends in IT capabilities and products to the advancement of the organization. Clearly articulates, and formally reports their benefits.
• ✓Maintains awareness of opportunities provided by new technology to address challenges or to enable new ways of working. Within own sphere of influence, works to further organizational goals, by the use of emerging technologies and products. Contributes to briefings and presentations about their relevance and potential value to the organization.
• ✓Recommends/designs structures and tools for systems which meet business needs. Delivers technical visualization of proposed applications for approval by custome