Controls Engineer

GABLETEK; City of Troy (NY); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

GABLETEK in Troy, NY is seeking a skilled Controls Engineer to design, engineer and program assembly equipment for a fast-paced manufacturing environment, ensuring safety, quality and reliability of automated systems.

You will develop hardware designs, read electrical schematics, implement PLC/HMI programs (Allen Bradley/Siemens), and advance SCADA and MES capabilities while collaborating with Process and Quality Engineers.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in a manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and procure assembly equipment for future programs and help maintain and re-engineer current assembly equipment.
• Hardware design
• Program assembly equipment
• Apply safety rules with immediate reaction in case of detected dangerous situation
• Ensure that all safety devices of machines are operational before their restart after engineering intervention
• Ensure quality standards are upheld
• Collaborate with Process/Quality Engineers and maintenance to develop new processes or process improvements
• Ground up robotics and controls hardware and logic design, electrical schematics, BOM, assembly, debug, and validation
• Test, update, and industrialize existing equipment
• Recover equipment from breakdowns, contribute to analysis of root cause, and suggest permanent corrective actions
• Escalate deviations after machine observation in curative maintenance
• Participate in Line QRQC and APU QRQC
• Participate in machine run-off of new manufacturing equipment at supplier
• Constant improvement to SCADA and MES systems
• Propose and Create Monthly/Annual preventative maintenance documentation for automated equipment and control systems
• Assist in development of Work Instructions, PFMEA, and all Process Documentation
• Investigate and propose APC, MPC and DCS for future manufacturing delivery improvement
• Project management within individual environment
• Attention to budget
• Escalate roadblocks preventing on-time deliverables
• Ability to read and create mechanical and electrical schematics
• Use control systems to assist maintenance team with motion controls, Servos, VFDs, pneumatic controls, and relay logic
• Help create and install vision systems used in production
• Travel is about 25%

Skills

PLC programming

HMI programming

Robotics programming

Electrical schematics

Manufacturing equipment

Customer communication

Time management

Motion control

Vision systems

Project management

APC/MPC/DCS experience

Tools

Allen-Bradley PLC

Siemens PLC

Cognex vision

Keyence vision

VFDs/Servos

Job description

CONTROLS ENGINEER

Design and engineer assembly equipment in a manufacturing environment. Program mechanical and electrical controls, assist with troubleshooting, and maintain safety and quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and procure assembly equipment for future programs and help maintain and re-engineer current assembly equipment
• Hardware design
• Program assembly equipment
• Applysafety rules with immediate reaction incase of detected dangerous situation
• Ensure that all safety devices of machines are operational before their restart after engineering intervention
• Ensure quality standards are upheld
• Working collaboratively with Process/Quality Engineers and maintenance to develop new processes or process improvements
• Ground up robotics and controls hardware and logic design, electrical schematics, BOM, assembly, debug, and validation
• Test, update, and industrialize existing equipment
• Recover equipment from breakdowns, contribute to analysis of root cause, and suggest permanent corrective actions
• Escalate deviations after machine observation in curative maintenance
• Participate to Line QRQC (Quick Response Quality Control), participate in APU QRQC
• Participate in machine run-off of new manufacturing equipment at supplier
• Constant improvement to SCADA and MES systems
• Propose and Create Monthly/Annual preventative maintenance documentation for automated equipment and control systems
• Assist in development of Work Instructions, PFMEA, and all Process Documentation
• Investigate and propose Advanced Process Control (APC), Model Predictive Control (MPC) and Distributed Control Systems (DCS) for future manufacturing delivery improvement
• Project management within individual environment
• Attention to budget
• Escalate roadblocks preventing on-time deliverables
• Ability to read and create mechanical and electrical schematics
• Use control systems to assist maintenance team with motion controls, Servos, VFDs, pneumatic controls, and relay logic
• Help create and install vision systems used in production
• Travel is about 25%

Required Skills

• 2+ years of previous experience working in a manufacturing environment
• 5+ years of PLC and HMI programming (Allen Bradley and/or Siemens)
• 2+ years of Robotics programming
• Experience reading and creating electrical prints and schematics
• Experience with manufacturing equipment is required
• Ability to communicate with customers both internal and external
• Time management and technical problem solving autonomy must be well developedAPC, MPC, and DCS experience highly preferred
• Experience programming motion controls, Servos, VFDs, pneumatic controls, and relay logic
• Experience programming vision systems (Keyence and/or Cognex) preferred
• Project management/leadership