Controls Engineer #1696
Location: Houston, TX.
Salary:
Provide electrical and automation controls engineering support for production facility. Position supports or leads projects to improve product and process stability, plant capacity expansion, and new product introduction. Responsible for development, improvement, and maintenance of electrical and control systems for automation.
Responsibilities
- Developing and communicating specifications for electrical controls, automation hardware, software components and systems.
- Develop operating procedures, acceptance test and validation test plans and protocols.
- Design, develop, upgrade, and debug sequence control logic, PLC programs, electrical control systems.
- Participate in guiding and developing activities for factory automation through development of automation standards and plant-specific software and database applications.
- Troubleshoot hardware and software components and sub-systems.
- Collect and analyze performance data from equipment and automated processes to evaluate plant performance.
- Support automated optical surface inspection and defect classification system.
- Manage plant improvement capital projects as needed.
Requirements
- BS Degree in Engineering required.
- 5 + years relevant industrial experience.
- Relevant experience to include specification and design of automated manufacturing controls and software within the web handling industry.
- Experience coordinating equipment vendors, writing equipment specifications and operating procedures required.
- Experience in acceptance and validation testing required, including protocol development, conducting tests, and data interpretation.
- Thorough knowledge and experience in programming PLCs, sequence logic design, PID loop design /implementation required.
- Experience with programming Allen Bradley PLCs and Factory Talk supervisory control and data acquisition software (SCADA) preferred. Specification, design, installation, and troubleshooting of a variety of AC/DC motors, controls, instrumentation and sensors for automated systems required.
- Experience with application of manufacturing execution system (MES) software a plus.
- Advanced PC skills including word processing and spreadsheet usage required. CAD skills (AutoCAD) preferred.
- Experience executing small capital projects.
Location: Houston, TX
Job #: 1696
Posted Mar 8, 2012
