Controls Engineer

Title: Controls Engineer

Location: Peoria, IL

Duration: Fulltime

Job Description:

• Take leadership of controls and pneumatics portion of project.
• Work with controls suppliers to ensure timely completion of projects.
• Review controls designs, pneumatic designs, and BOM for completeness and workability.
• Provide on-site support to controls suppliers, machine builds, debug, and testing qualification of equipment.
• Coordinate purchasing and cross-referencing components to ensure a timely completion to support project timelines.
• Draft qualification protocols, and manage equipment qualification activities.
• Attend customer meetings at all levels of discussion, getting customer inputs and presenting controls solutions as required.
• Interface with customers, suppliers, and functional owners to coordinate project activities and disseminate project issues and information.
• Provide ongoing support to internal team, customers, and suppliers for efficient turnaround of project variables.
• BS in electrical engineering or 10 years of controls and pneumatic design experience.
• 5 to 7 year's experience in designing controls and pneumatic schematics, and drawings with a degree.
• 10 years of experience minimum without a degree or equivalent experience.
• Industrial engineering experience with robotic cells and automation.
• Experience in designing and programming Allen Bradley PLC's from scratch.
• Modifying existing PLC programs and routines.
• Knowledge and experience with robots, vision systems, material handling, conveyors, PLC, HMI, pick & place operations, EOAT, sensors and switches. This list is not all inclusive.
• Minimum 5 years minimum of new design, programming, and debugging Allen Bradley and Beckhoff controls, PLC's, and pneumatics with a degree.