Controls Hardware Engineer

Major Duties and Responsibilities :

• Responsible for hardware designs including electrical, pneumatic, and other fluid systems for automation systems.
• Aid the sales and applications departments in evaluating future projects and customer request(s) for quotes. Typically providing controls architecture, cost, and labor estimates.
• Work with various teams including controls and mechanical engineering, build team, etc. to validate designs meet expectations and functional requirements.
• Coordinate with the Engineering Department on a timely basis to ensure that all drawings, calculations, controls hardware architecture, bill of materials, manuals, sequence of operation, etc. are kept current and correct.
• Provide improvement suggestions regarding departmental standards, processes, and other feedback to the management team.
• Attend project kick off meetings including internal and external kick offs, lessons learned meetings, project status meetings, etc.
• Develop and review electrical and fluid drawings, schematics, manuals, controls architecture, and other pertinent information to determine the best solution and proper tools for system set up or problem resolution.
• Perform field checks to validate drawing packages received for either retool or replacement type projects with or without existing documentation.
• Support the peripheral device setup (hardware configurations) for various systems.
• Support set up and configure communication networks including but not limited to device net, Profibus, Profinet, Ethernet IP, Modbus TCP, IO Link, and remote I / O.
• Prepare service / warranty and other reports for customers and internal distribution in a timely manner.
• May be requested to perform onsite or in-house training for customers or new employees. Training onsite may be formal training in a classroom setting.