Automation Engineer

A well-established and growing food/dairy equipment company is looking to add an automation engineer to their organization.



Job Summary:

Projects include both retrofits and new systems involving PLC s, industrial computers, process instrumentation, project management and other control devices. This position is responsible for developing materials specification, design of electrical schematics, equipment schedules and PLC and HMI/EOI programming.



Responsibilities Include:

Manage multiple automation projects as assigned.
Setup, program, modify, and maintain a variety of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), Human Machine Interfaces (HMI), Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA), and reporting applications. Applications include, but are not limited to; Allen Bradley PLC 5, Allen Bradley SLC 500, Allen Bradley CLX 5500, Allen Bradley PanelView, Rockwell Software RSView32, and Microsoft Access.
Team leads one to three employees in the Engineering Department based on the project assigned.
Perform service calls on direct projects or other engineers projects as company needs.


Requirements:

Bachelor's degree (B. S.) from four-year college or university in Controls Engineering, Process Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering
2+ years of experience in related equipment manufacturing.
2+ years working knowledge of PLC programming, and operator interface design skills.
Familiarity of food and/or dairy process equipment
Ability to travel 20%