Controls Engineer

Providing technical and engineering support for automated industrial machinery and industrial electronic controls.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Other duties may be assigned.

·         Read, create, and modify electrical schematics according to IEC and NFPA standards.

·         Read, create, and modify fluid power (hydraulics and pneumatics) schematics according to IEC and NFPA standards.

·         Read, create, and modify P&ID schematics according to IEC and NFPA standards.

·         Read, create, and modify programming code in the following languages: Siemens Structured Control Language (SCL), Siemens Statement List, Siemens Graph 7, Siemens Function Block Diagram (FBD), Ladder Logic (Siemens, Allen Bradley and others), Allen Bradley Structured Text, Microsoft Visual Basic, C++, C#, Java, Python, Microsoft SQL, and others.

·         Read, create, and modify database tables in MSSQL server.

·         Read, create, and modify HMI programs for Siemens, Allen Bradley, and other HMI’s, this includes using WinCC Flex and Panel Builder 32.

·         Read, create, and modify SCADA programs for Siemens WinCC, and Inductive Automation.

·         Install, commission, repair and troubleshoot any brand of PLC, HMI or VFD.

·         Install, commission, repair and troubleshoot any industrial communications media and protocols.

·         Install, commission, repair and troubleshoot a wide range of industrial machinery.

·         Upgrade and retrofit controls that are obsolete with no direct replacements available.  This requires making all necessary modifications to existing equipment.

·         Possess exemplary troubleshooting skills and be able to repair any machinery from any manufacturer.

·         Properly use oscilloscopes, test meters, megohmmeters, process calibrators, thermal imagers, vibrations analyzers, data loggers and any other test equipment.

·         Sources all necessary materials for projects and repairs and works with maintenance inventory clerk to acquire needed materials in timely manner.

·         Train technicians and apprentices the proper methods and procedures for process instrumentation calibration.

·         Train technicians and apprentices how to read and understand programming code and logic.