Pay: $100,000-$120,000/year + Great Benefits!
Location: Piqua, Ohio
Job Overview:
Designs, programs, and troubleshoots systems of electrical and hydraulic controls for custom-designed equipment such as hydraulic compression molding machines, polymer dewatering, and drying machines, and oilseed machines by performing the following duties.
Key Responsibilites:
- Discusses project with Project Manager to review scope of supply and functional specifications of equipment.
- Diagrams logic system for functions such as sequence and timing control using computer assisted engineering and design software.
- Designs arrangements of linkage of conductors, relays, PLC’s, flow valves and other components of electrical, electronic, and hydraulic devices using computer assisted engineering and design software.
- Designs interface system, including pushbuttons, switches, and Human-Machine-Interface (HMI) displays using computer assisted engineering and design software.
- Develops Bill of Materials for scope of supply required on the project.
- Confers with Assembly Team Electrical Assemblers and Wirers to resolve problems regarding building of control systems.
- Reviews schematics and control configurations with customer’s representatives to answer questions.
- Observes operation during trial run of programmed machine and equipment operation to verify that electrical signals in system conform to specifications.
- Designs controls for optimizing operator interface with existing plant control systems.
- Resolves (debugs) control issues such as hydraulic/electrical interface faults/errors.
- Follows all ISO 9001 Quality Procedures and Work Instructions.
- Other duties may be assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (B.S.E.E.) from four-year college or university and a minimum of five years of related experience.
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, ladder logic, electrical and hydraulic schematics, and PLC programming instructions.
- Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.
- Ability to speak and understand the English language fluently.
- Ability to write proposals and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format.
- Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
- Willingness to travel to customer locations, generally 10-15% of the time, but rarely would exceed 30% of the time.
- Knowledgeable in computer-assisted engineering and design software and PLC’s.