Control Engineer

Talos Automation; Michigan; On-site; USD 55,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

Dental Insurance

401K

Job summary

Talos Automation is seeking a Controls Design Engineer in Michigan to design electrical drawings and develop PLC/HMI/SCADA software. You will travel to panel shops and job sites, lead start-up and commissioning, and coordinate with project teams to ensure on-time delivery.

A background in industrial control systems and familiarity with Rockwell or Siemens hardware is required. The role involves creating documentation, coordinating subcontractor scopes, and supporting equipment checkout in the

Qualifications

• 1-5 years in a role with industrial control systems
• Experience with PLCs and HMIs from Rockwell or Siemens
• Understanding of standard industrial electrical drawings; CAD not required
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering/engineering technology preferred but not required

Responsibilities

• Read proposals, specs and scopes to understand our work
• Develop electrical drawings with Senior Project Engineers/Managers
• Develop PLC, HMI or SCADA software and commissioning docs
• Develop lockout placards and spare parts lists
• Travel to panel shops and job sites (typical 30-40%)
• Lead start-up and commissioning, document setpoints and markups
• Supervise electrical contractors and ensure project delivery
• Finish documentation for final as-built transmittal

Skills

Industrial control systems

Open-mindedness

Customer service orientation

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor in engineering/engineering technology

Tools

Rockwell PLC/HMI

Siemens PLC/HMI

Job description

• 1-5 years working in a role involving industrial control systems
• Experience working with PLCs and HMIs from either Rockwell Automation or Siemens. Other brands will be considered.
• Understanding of standard industrial electrical drawings. Preferable if the candidate can develop drawings. CAD experience not necessary.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or engineering technology preferable but not a strict requirement.

Attributes of a successful candidate:

• Open-minded, flexible, tends to default to “yes” rather than “no”. Positivity.
• Ability to learn and use the resources at your disposal to solve problems, sometimes in challenging environment (i.e., a start up on a tight schedule).
• Personable and attentive to customer satisfaction. Customer service is a core value of the team here.
• Practices honest and open communication with others.
• Dependability and responsibility are key. Professionalism is what we seek here.

Typical tasks of a Controls Design Engineer:

• Read project proposals, specifications, and scopes of work to understand our scope of work.
• Develop electrical drawings:
• Work with Senior Project Engineers and Engineering Managers to develop drawings for controls projects.
• Drawings typically the following:

• 480VAC Schematics
• 120VAC Schematics

• 24VDC Schematics
• PLC IO Schematics

• Enclosure Layout
• Subplate Layout

• Door Layout
• Bill of Materials

• Engineers are expected to mark-up drawings and work with a detailer to get drawings where they need to be. You will not be doing your own CAD.
• Develop PLC, HMI, or SCADA software:
• Efficiently develop software that meets customer, project, or other kinds of requirements.
• Develop commissioning and validation documentation
• Develop lockout placards
• Develop spare parts list
• Develop subcontractor scope of work
• Capital Equipment Acquisition:
• Get quotes for material and place orders
• Travel to panel shops and conduct equipment checkout
• Travel to job sites: (typically 30-40%)

Travel is unpredictable at times. Ideally, when you start the design of a project, you will see it through in the field. Because controls are the last team to touch a system, our schedule is usually ruthlessly shifted, bearing the delays of all of those who came before us. Project travel varies heavily with the project. Small pumping skid? Maybe a weekend. Complete paint shop? Several months, maybe over a year. We know our engineers are human and most can’t travel in perpetuity. However, we cannot read your mind. It’s incumbent upon an engineer to communicate their needs to project management and the business, if necessary. We are a team.

• Ideally, you will see a project through to fruition, especially if you were involved in developing the electrical drawings, the system software, and ensuring delivery of capital equipment.
• Sometimes a project may consist of strictly site work.
• We supervise electrical contractors, providing a trusted resource to help them get to our desired outcome.
• We start-up and commission the systems we design, ensuring that our designs work as intended.
• As part of start-up and commissioning, you’re expected to thoroughly complete commissioning documentation, documenting that things were checked out and what the setpoints should be. You are also expected to keep detailed mark ups of any electrical drawing changes. Your software probably isn’t 100% perfect either. You will more than likely end up changing things with the PLC or HMI software.
• After start-up and commissioning is completed, we sometimes are required for stand‑by support in case something goes wrong during a critical time.
• When traveling to a job site, you might interface with basically everyone: trades, project managers, operators, plant management. You are expected to always conduct yourself as a professional and represent the business well.
• As‑Bult Documentation:

Finish the job. Compile all documentation as required for the final as‑built transmittal.

• $40 - $50/hour (depending on experience) - Salaried position paid hourly.
• Everyone is paid on a weekly basis.
• Overtime is available over 40 hours a week
• Yearly bonus program (equivalent to 1 extra month’s salary per year)
• Medical Insurance / Vision / Dental / 401K