Job description
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Job Summary
To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Controls Engineer located in Buffalo Grove Il.
Reporting to the Controls Manager the Controls Engineer role involves…
The Controls Engineer focus is to provide leadership and technical expertise in the areas of controls and electronic circuitry to achieve safety, quality, and productivity targets in a medical device manufacturing plant. Primary focus will be on controls improvements and troubleshooting of high volume automated medical device assembly equipment and associated electrical wiring/devices, instrument, embedded systems, motion control and inspection systems.
The experience we’re looking to add to our team:
- 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.
- Develop and implement plan to achieve highly effective controls troubleshooting and repair, minimizing downtime.
- Manage 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.
- Interface with OEM engineers in identifying root cause and implementing improvements.
- Completing change control documentation, including change documentation, risk assessment and justification.
- Optimize and/or improve human machine interfaces, SCADA systems and MES interfaces.
- Troubleshooting and optimizing performance of Cognex vision inspection systems
- Define equipment maintenance/preventative maintenance requirements and procedures.
- Identify root-causes of equipment failures, develop, and implement corrective actions.
- Develop troubleshooting and repair skills of Controls and Automation Technicians.
- Provide on expert 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.
Here is some of what you will need (required):
- Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent coupled
- 7+ years of experience in high volume industrial of manufacturing environment
- Proficiency programming and troubleshooting Allen Bradley Control Logics PLCs and Human Machine Interface (HMI / GUI )
- Proficient user of: RSLOGIX5000, Logix Designer, Studio 5000, Factory Talk SE, Ignition and Cognex
- 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
- Experience setting up/tuning and troubleshooting Allen Bradley Power-Flex variable frequency drives and Kinetix multi-axis servo drives.
- Solid working knowledge of:
- Field bus Networks (ProfiNet,DeviceNet, Ethernet/IP, Safety rated field bus networks).
- Radio frequency identification devices (RFID) and all the accompanying components (Receiver, antenna, puck, reader)
- PID tunning and closed feedback loops
- Serial communication (RS-232, RS-422, RS-485, ProfiBus, Modbus RTU, Data Highway) between PLCs, instruments, and microcontrollers
- Ethernet communications between machine PLCs and embedded data collection systems
- Proficiency selecting appropriate circuit protectors, wire and cable, sensors, safety hardware, PLC hardware, remote I/O, VFD and instrumentation.
- Broad knowledge of controls devices and experience troubleshooting.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
Here are a few of our preferred experiences…
- Experience with Vision systems is a plus (Cognex, Keyence, Fanuc) is a plus
- Experience programming/troubleshooting Siemens PLC, Step7.
What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:
- Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision
- Life Insurance
- Matching 401K
- PTO
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Employee discounts at local retailers
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Job Category
Production Engineering
Relocation: Not eligible
Is Sponsorship Available?
No
Flex is an Equal Opportunity Employer and employment selection decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on: age, race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, pregnancy status, or any other status protected by law. We're happy to provide reasonable accommodations to those with a disability for assistance in the recruitment process. Please advise us of any accommodations you may need by e-mailing: accessibility@flex.com.
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