Controls Engineer

Bell & Associates, Inc.; Wisconsin; On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Bell & Associates, Inc. seeks a Controls Engineer to design electrical control systems for thermal and process equipment, ensuring safety standards, deadlines, and cost targets are met.

Under the direction of the Controls Engineering Manager, you will create detailed designs, support QA testing, and collaborate with Sales, Manufacturing and Field Service to drive continuous improvement and successful project execution.

Qualifications

• Read and interpret project/customer specifications, codes, standards, and drawings.
• Understanding of industrial controls and electrical schematics.
• Excellent communication and timely decision-making across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design electrical control systems, including ladder logic and panel layouts.
• Support QA and assist testing of equipment prior to buy-offs.
• Act as technical resource for Sales, Applications, Manufacturing, QA, Field Service.
• Participate on cross-functional teams to improve processes and methods.
• Document training procedures and develop progress metrics.
• Provide operation sequences and manuals.
• Maintain electrical estimating workbook.
• Compile inputs and write engineering design standards with lower level engineers.
• Assist in determining resource requirements to meet budgets.

Skills

Industrial controls

PLC programming

Ladder logic

HMI design

Electrical schematics

Job description

Under the direction of the Controls Engineering Manager, the Controls Engineer designs electrical control systems for all thermal systems and process equipment meeting safety standards, project deadlines and project cost constraints to meet or exceed our customer’s needs. May be required to assist in directing and coordinating activities to meet project specifications and deadlines.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide all aspects of the equipment electrical design including necessary calculations, advance orders of long lead components, ladder logic electrical schematics, control panel layouts with complete bills of material, software design for PLC’s, software design for HMI’s using sound practical engineering principles and safety standard, while meeting project deadlines, estimated engineering hours and estimated equipment cost constraints.
• Support Quality Assurance personnel and assist in the testing of equipment prior to customer buy-offs, including trouble shooting of PLC and HMI software programs where applicable to ensure safe and proper equipment operation.
• Act as technical resource for Sales, Applications, Manufacturing, Quality Assurance and Field Service assisting in addressing and resolving questions and issues.
• Participate on cross-functional teams to address and resolve manufacturing, design and quality problems and ensure the continuous, on-going improvement of processes and methods.
• Assist in documenting training procedures for new engineers and developing metrics to gauge their progress.
• Provide written sequence of operation and technical support in creating instruction manuals.
• Manage and assist in maintaining the electrical estimating workbook.
• Compile input from engineers, Sales, Manufacturing, and vendors and use this information to work with lower level engineers to write and maintain engineering design standards. This includes standard engineering drawings, standard software designs for PLC’s and HMI’s and standard engineering practices for oven design and vendor design data.
• Assist engineers in determining engineering resource requirements to maintain budgeted business levels.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Must have the ability to read, analyze and interpret documents such as project and customer specifications, professional codes and standards and engineering drawings. Understanding of industrial controls and electrical schematics.
• Ability to assess situations to determine the importance, urgency and risks and make clear, timely decisions that are in the best interest of the department and the organization. Possess the ability to see an issue or situation from different points of view.
• Ability to listen attentively, ask questions ensuring clear expectations, follow directions and provide prompt continuous follow-up.