Electrical Controls Engineer

Title: Electrical Controls Engineer

Location: East Troy, WI

Hire Type: Direct hire

Job Summary:

Summary: This position designs electrical control systems, and gas, pneumatic, hydraulic, and steam piping layouts for industrial ovens.

Job Duties:

• Research, develop, and design electrical control systems, gas, pneumatic, hydraulic, and steam piping layouts, meeting engineering standards, applicable codes, customer specifications, and within cost constraints.
• Research, develop, design, program, and debug PLC’s (program logic controls), operator interfaces, communication devices, and frequency drives.
• Review and interpret customer specifications and sales agreements.
• Work with customers and vendors on equipment design.
• Ensure conformance to codes and to company standards for quality and manufacturability. Familiarity with UL508A, NFPA 79, NFPA 86, NEC, etc.
• Develop and maintain designs layouts in the computerized system. Ability to generate bill of material and be within budget of the project.
• Redesign standard products, improving quality and productivity, while reducing costs.
• Evaluate and select components and parts for products.
• Develop working relationships with Mechanical Engineering and with other departments to address and resolve issues.
• Act as a technical resource for sales personnel, service technicians, Quality Assurance technicians, and for product field support of customers.
• Participate in cross functional teams to address and resolve manufacturing, design, and quality problems, and to ensure the continuous improvement of processes and methods.
• Stay current and informed of new developments in industry and new parts or methods to improve products or product designs.
• Occasionally travel to customer sites. (Weekdays only)

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• This job has no direct supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and three to five years of related experience.

• AutoCAD 2000 (minimum), AutoCAD Electrical a plus.

• Experience with Rockwell Automation PLC/HMI programming, Siemens

• TIA portal a plus.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information