Controls Engineer

US-NY-Poughkeepsie

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Req #: 4589
Type: Regular Full-Time
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				Overview:

The Controls Engineer applies engineering knowledge to designs and assists with the development of major engineering projects.

MPI drives a LEAN culture, focused on customer service excellence.  We do this by working to simplify our processes and driving out waste or non-value-added activities.  We value participation at all levels and invest in our employees' training to achieve continuous development of our dynamic team.

Salary Description: $90,000 - $120,000/yr. 

Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Generous PTO, Tuition Reimbursement

Responsibilities:

* Supports MPI lean culture and initiatives by attending and participating in daily lean meetings while supporting efforts to make continuous improvements throughout MPI.
* Electrical Design: Responsible for creating electrical schematics, plc program logic, and electrical enclosure designs within the constraints determined by the given project, time, cost, performance.
* Project Supervision: Completes an electrical design for a project with supervision. These responsibilities include the following:

* Electrical enclosure design and detail.
* Electrical schematic design.
* Hands-on PLC and HMI programming.
* Hands-on Robotic programming desirable.
* Knowledge of vision systems is desirable.
* Project documentation, including bill of materials.
* Project checking.
* Manufacturing assembly support.
* Estimating engineering hours required for a project.

* Checking / Verification: Responsible for ensuring that any of his or her own work is inspected and approved by a qualified engineer or engineering manager.
* Functional Testing: Responsible for testing and verification of new or modified programs. Assist the functional testing of the equipment and support customers during FAT.
* Documentation: Responsible for the proper documentation of his or her work, including ECR's, machine manuals, check lists, and others.
* Scheduling & Reports: Responsible for reporting the status of his or her project in accordance with Epicor Projects (MPI's information system) and the engineering production schedule at each weekly meeting. If a problem occurs that requires immediate attention, it is the engineer's responsibility to report to the department manager at that time.
* Comm/SAT: When required capable to travel to customers site to support installation, commissioning, and Site acceptance testing.
* Other duties as assigned by management.

Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree or equivalent, plus 4 to 5 years of related experience.
* Sound understanding of electrical design, schematics, and electrical codes in regard to machine tool design.
* Sound computer skills, Cad for Schematics is desirable.
* Experience with machine tool equipment, electrical design.
* Experienced PLC programmer. Omron, AB, and Siemens are desirable.
* Experienced HMI programmer. Indusoft is desirable.
* Experienced Robotic's programmer. ABB and Fanuc are desirable.
* Proficient using Microsoft Office, Solidworks, and MPI information system "Epicor."
* Software knowledge; Excel, Solidworks, and Microsoft Windows.
* Flexible, able to react to change.
* Sound communication skills, verbal, written and the ability to listen effectively.
* Great organizational skills.
			
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