Lead Industrial Controls Engineer - PLC/HMI Expert

Exol

United States

Remote

USD 120,000 - 165,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Symbotic is seeking an Advanced Industrial Controls Engineer to join the Industrial Automation team. You will drive PLC development and implementation, collaborate with end users to capture requirements, and lead test strategies and root-cause analysis.

The role involves on-site or remote customer work and mentoring junior engineers. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in industrial control systems, Rockwell PLC experience (ControlLogix/GuardLogix), and strong knowledge of industrial networks, HMI

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering or Automation Engineering or Computer Science or related discipline.
Knowledge of Power Systems to design drive controls.
Experience with AC/DC Drive Control Architecture.
Minimum of 5 years in Design & Implementation of Industrial Control systems using PLCs, HMIs, and Drives.
Minimum of 5years’ of Programming PLCs, HMIs, and related equipment for Industrial Control Systems (Rockwell products preferred).
Minimum of 5 years’ experience with automated systems engineering.
Advanced experience programming Rockwell PLC’s (ControlLogix,GuardLogix).
Advanced knowledge of Industrial networks.
Experience developing and programming Human Machine Interface (Ignition 8, FactoryTalk ME/SE).
Able to understand and read electrical and mechanical schematics.
Strong background in troubleshooting complex automatedsystem.
Experience with JIRA and agilemethodologyis a plus.
Havingexperience oforganizing a team and prioritizing tasks.
KnowledgeinRockwell and Inductive Automation products is a plus.
Travel approximately 40% to various customer locations (Canada and United States).

Responsibilities

Elaborate, define, and plan technical work from well-defined objectives, validating requirements with internal and external stakeholders.
Elaborate and lead the execution of test strategies, execute test plans, generate test reports, and demonstrate compliance with requirements.
Independently execute technical work, including the supervision of other resources.
Autonomous and self-driving, requiring minimal supervision.
Lead improvement initiatives, review and approve technical solutions within existing architectures.
Coach and develop lesser-experienced employees.
Gather information and validate requirements to execute root cause analysis to resolve issues with internal and external stakeholders.
Provide new control system functionalities and modify existing solutions including PLC and HMI.
Document equipment configuration, system functionality and features, and Industrial Controls team processes and procedures.
Collaborate with Release management and perform PLC and HMI updates for the customer, on-site or remotely.
Support customers to address unforeseen issues.
Lead the design effort for a dedicated system.
Contribute to and potentially lead process improvement initiatives.
Support Production Sites.