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ENGINEERS
Controls Engineer Pittsburgh, PA Posted: 10/25/2022
Job Description
Job ID#:
4990
Job Category:
ENGINEERS
Position Type:
Permanent Full Time
Technical Solutions Inc. is currently seeking a Controls Engineer for our client, a local manufacturing company, for their Pittsburgh area facility. The Controls Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, installing, and/or troubleshooting industrial software programs to control OEM equipment manufactured by employer. Software is used to monitor and control engineered systems, machinery and processes for production equipment used for polyurethane components. A Controls Engineer ensures that these systems and processes operate effectively, efficiently and safely for the end user.
Essential Functions:
- Design, Build, and Implement PLC & HMI programs.
- Conduct shop and/or field tests to verify the control system meets project specifications
- Create project documentation
- Successfully complete project schedules, objectives, and requirements by reviewing project specifications, customer requirements, and project completion milestones
- Coordinate and schedule project tasks with Mechanical Engineer, Project Managers, and Electrical Engineers
- Contribute to project success by completing assigned tasks on time and completely
- Review and verify that projects are within budget and completed on schedule
- Conduct reviews at project completion to identify procedures and methods that can be improved
- Travel required. Periodic travel for training, out of state, is required.
- Designing, specifying and developing new control systems or integrating with other suppliers' controls as required
- Understanding and ensuring compliance with the plant health and safety regulations.
- Accepting responsibility and a level of accountability that is proportionate to the seniority of the position.
- Discusses project with project and sales managers to review desired/required functions of machines and equipment and the user interface requirements
- Confers with project and manufacturing managers to resolve problems regarding building of controls systems.
- Reviews schematics with customer's representatives to answer questions during installation.
- Performs other tasks and duties as necessary.
Work Environment:
- This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.
- The employee is occasionally exposed to a variety of extreme conditions. The noise level in the work environment can be loud.
Job Requirements
Required Education and Experience:
- A Controls Engineer must have a thorough understanding of electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic controls and programmable controllers for Polyurethane specialty machinery and equipment. Also required is experience in writing PLC & HMI programs.
- Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering with three to five years controls engineering experience.
- Programming and troubleshooting experience with Allen-Bradley PLCs using Studio 5000 and RSLogix 5000, PanelView operator interfaces using FactoryTalk View Studio ME and Powerflex Drives.
- Strong hands-on mechanical and electrical aptitude to understand and troubleshoot the machinery with which our control systems interface.
- The ability to work independently as well as on a project team.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are required due to the requirement to interface with customers as a representative of a world-leading firm involved with industrial technology.
Additional Desired Experience:
- Programming and troubleshooting experience with of Siemens products - PLCs and Comfort Panel operator interfaces using TIA Portal and Variable Frequency Drives (At least three years' experience).
- Programming and troubleshooting experience with Mitsubishi PLCs, operator interfaces and Variable Frequency Drives.
- Barcoding and RFID experience.
- Robot programming experience using Fanuc Robots.
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