Automation and Controls Engineer
- Buffalo Grove, IL
- Permanent
- Full-time
Please review the details below and let me know if you're interested. You may also share your updated resume for consideration.Role: Controls Engineer
Location: Buffalo Grove, ILJob Overview:
The Controls Engineer will support and enhance high-volume automated medical device manufacturing equipment by providing expertise in controls, PLC programming, troubleshooting, and electrical systems. This role involves design, installation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of PLC-based controls while ensuring safety, quality, and productivity targets are met.What you will be doing:
Lead or support maintenance teams in troubleshooting elusive problems resulting in downtime or quality issues. Identify and correct causes of chronic equipment failures or issues.
Assist with development and implementation of plans to achieve highly effective controls troubleshooting and repair, while minimizing downtime.
Provide control of machine software, firmware and user access security.
Propose, evaluate risk and implement PLC program and other software/firmware or hardware changes needed to improve safety, yield and productivity.
Completing change control documentation, including change documentation, risk assessment and justification.
Define equipment maintenance/preventative maintenance requirements and procedures.
Identify root-causes of equipment failures and slowdowns, develop and implement corrective actions.
Develop troubleshooting and repair skills of Controls and Automation Technicians.
Provide on-call support for system outages and incidents.
Development of User Requirement Specifications for new equipment or equipment updates.
Work with Automation and Validation Engineers to develop test script to validate software/firmware updates.
Support commissioning and validation of new equipment and/or implementation and testing of changes to existing equipment.Qualifications:
A Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent coupled at least 3 years of industrial controls experience in high volume manufacturing environment.
Proficiency programming and troubleshooting Allen Bradley Control Logics PLCs and Human Machine Interface (HMI / GUI )
Established user of RSLOGIX5000, Logix Designer, Studio 5000
Ability to design fault-tolerant systems with error handling and recovery.
General understanding of factory LAN/WAN ethernet networks and ability to setup devices with IP addresses or nodes
Proficiency selecting appropriate circuit protectors, wire and cable.
Experience selecting, configuring and installing: sensors, safety hardware, PLC hardware, remote I/O, VFDs and instrumentation.
Knowledge of controls devices and experience troubleshooting.
Effective written and verbal communication skills.Desired skills:
Experience with Vision systems is a plus (Cognex, Keyence, Fanuc) is a plus.
Experience programming/troubleshooting Siemens PLC, Step7.
Proficient with: RSLOGIX5000, Logix Designer, Studio 5000, Factory Talk SE, and Ignition.
Experience setting up/tuning and troubleshooting Allen Bradley Power-Flex variable frequency drives and Kinetix multi-axis servo drives.Working knowledge:
o Field bus Networks (ProfiNet, DeviceNet, Ethernet/IP, Safety rated field bus networks).
o Radio frequency identification devices (RFID) and all the accompanying components (Receiver, antenna, puck, reader)
o PID tunning and closed feedback loops
o Serial communication (RS-232, RS-422, RS-485, ProfiBus, Modbus RTU, Data Highway) between PLCs, instruments and microcontrollers
o Ethernet communications between machine PLCs and embedded data collection systems