Electrical Controls Engineer
Job Description:
Job Details:
The Electrical and Controls Engineer will assist the Richmond plant in meeting or exceeding stated operational, environmental, and safety goals.
Location: Richmond, Indiana
Travel: Requires travel (10%)
Responsibilities:
- Ability to perform power, electrical & control systems engineering for all aspects of projects.
- Prepares and reviews technical electrical specifications for equipment, processes and projects.
- Troubleshoot and correct operational issues
- Participate in/lead root cause corrective actions to prevent re-occurrence of issues.
- Provide on-call support to plant operations for electrical and controls issues.
- Assist in review and implementation of Corporate Specifications and Standards.
- Track and prioritize issues in conjunction with other departments.
- Prepares and reviews technical electrical specifications for equipment and processes projects.
- Assist facility with manufacturing operations as well as execution of electrical safety initiatives.
- Maintain good communication with management and project customers regarding project status, problems, and changes.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelors degree in electrical engineering or electrical engineering technology
- 3 years of experience in control systems or discrete manufacturing environment.
- Demonstrated electrical and control system engineering capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to provide solutions to basic project and process engineering problems.
- Solid knowledge of Allen-Bradley PLC and HMI applications (including programming) along with communications within enterprise and control networked systems.
- Knowledge of DCS/SCADA systems
- Must be able to read/understand electrical schematics and engineering drawings.
- Demonstrated knowledge in the application of the NFPA 70E Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace – arc flash energy and shock hazards.
- Ability to manage and support multiple (1-3) projects simultaneously
- Demonstrated success managing projects $50k – $200k
- Must possess good analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ideally:
- 50% firefighting % 50 projects
- CI on our electrical project
- Process control experience would be great – driving improvement in water and compressed air systems.
- Providing back up to the other EE.
- Allen Bradley – needs to have great understanding – device net/control net experience
- Would like someone with controls knowledge & control networked systems (industrial networking).
- DCS/SCADA – controls people with know (ignition/Wonderware) general understanding