Job Details

ID #46151363
State Iowa
City Sioux city
Job type Permanent
Salary USD $90000 - $109000 per annum 90000 - 109000 per annum
Source Manpower Engineering
Showed 2022-10-02
Date 2022-10-01
Deadline 2022-11-29
Category Et cetera
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Automation Engineer

Iowa, Sioux city, 51101 Sioux city USA

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A leading manufacturer is in search of a Controls Engineer. Candidates must have experience in a high-speed manufacturing environment.

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Serves as both a technical expert and a leader within the plant and leads by influence and expertise.
  • Provide leadership to enhance organizational capability through training, mentorship and operational support, and drive a cross functional high-performance work team environment, including plant and regional manufacturing technical resources, engineering and IT.
  • Work closely with Operations management to establish priorities, resolve technical problems, and maintain standardized documentation.
  • Develop detailed project plans and execute projects on time, in scope and budget that support operations goals and improve operational capability.
  • Lead and facilitate a collaborative environment to include internal resources and external vendors / consultants to deliver operational and project support to our manufacturing enterprise.
  • Drive development and adoption of OT technologies across the manufacturing enterprise that improve sustainability and operational capability.
  • Develops a control strategy for automated production facility machinery to include all PLC-driven equipment.
  • Assists with the design and development of control systems for new equipment and techniques.
  • Serves as the plant controls expert and power user and guides the maintenance and engineering department.
  • Lead implementation support for company process control applications, process data collection systems, automated warehousing systems, Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Environmental/ Health/Safety.
  • Establishes an overarching controls philosophy and logic for all equipment systems within the Company by establishing coding rules and controls procedures for specific types of manufacturing cells and documenting these practices to ensure standardization.
  • Troubleshoots, tests, and repairs control systems and assists and provides control logic guidance and training to plant Maintenance Managers.
  • Supervise, educate, and train plant-level control engineers while maintaining expertise within the Controls Engineer field and should stay abreast of new technology, emerging software code, and new equipment.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

  • Lead implementation support for company process control applications, process data collection systems, automated warehousing systems, Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Environmental/ Health/Safety.
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  • Ability to understand and adequately influence decisions of senior management.
  • Knowledge of controls systems development methodology.
  • Detailed and structured thought process.
  • Ability to interact and communicate with all levels in the organization.
  • Advanced PLC programming skills.
  • Facilitate and support the numerous manufacturing process and control systems within Operations, collaborating with Engineering, IT, Operations and Corporate management and vendor resources.
  • Provide production support and maintenance for enterprise systems including: Environmental Health & Safety, OEE and Plant Key Performance Metrics, Process Controls and Automation, reporting and analytics systems for Operations, and others as directed.
  • Provide leadership and management of staff in all the above areas to include all supervision, performance management, career development, and all other personnel related functions
  • Continually demonstrates a level of integrity and professional demeanor in keeping with the Company's mission and values.
  • Associate's degree or up to 3 years of college or technical school
  • Knowledge acquired through 3 to up to 5 years of work experience
  • Electrical Engineering or Controls experience

Education, Experience

  • 10+ years of experience managing and supporting controls and automation, and systems integration in a manufacturing, system integrator or OEM environment.
  • 4+ years of experience managing and supporting manufacturing process controls systems, networks and infrastructure.
  • 3+ years of experience within industry as a practitioner and manager (Food and Beverage/Process Manufacturing).
  • 5+ years of experience managing manufacturing process control applications, supporting software and databases, support, and ongoing process improvement efforts.
  • 3+ years of experience developing and managing project plans, departmental and project budgets, and requests for capital

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