Controls Engineer

Job Title : Controls / Test Engineer-Senior

Location : Waukesha, WI, 53186

Duration : 12 months

Job Description

The Senior Controls / Test Engineer is responsible for supporting plant leadership in achieving business and financial goals by developing and maintaining robust testing and assembly processes. The Senior Controls / Test Engineer is responsible for portions of design, development, fabrication, validation, installation, support and troubleshooting of production test equipment and programs. The Senior Controls / Test Engineer is a coach, mentor, and role model for others to personally grow for working with them

Essential Functions :

• Provide guidelines for the design and selection of test equipment, testing protocols, test data collection programs and best practices.
• Support, service, and trouble shoot test equipment and electrical systems within the plant
• Develop test equipment specifications ensuring compliance with electrical safe work practices and OSHA requirements. Identify potential safety hazards and provides input in the remediation process, ensuring equipment functionality meets required specifications.
• Enforce safety expectations, document and communicate hazards and unsafe conditions tensure a zero-incident culture and product conformance electrical safety and quality standards.
• Work with manufacturing, MESH, manufacturing engineering, quality, product design engineering, suppliers, and customers as needed.
• Performs root cause and failure analysis. Applies critical thinking and problem-solving skills provide specified cost, quality, and performance in a safe and efficient manner. Teaches others in critical thinking and problem solving.
• Guide and instruct the capital equipment selection process. Develop and evaluate Capital Appropriation Requests (CAR's) for major new product or process programs and initiatives related testing / controls.
• Active role in assessment processes within manufacturing environment. May act as a category lead or champion during an assessment process.
• Lead / co-lead cost-out initiatives and promotes culture of continuous improvement. Collaborates with teams that leverage the use of Lean and / or Six Sigma tools solve problems within manufacturing. Drives initiatives closure and monitors / drives associated metrics. Participates in Continuous Improvement Kaizens / BPIs as appropriate tthe facility.
• Leverages advanced technology and innovation improve the use and effectiveness of information systems for testing / controls.
• Seeks opportunities teliminate waste associated with the flow of factory floor test information. Leads projects, develops project goals, budgets, and work breakdown structures. Proactively aligns cross functional resources such as Production, Quality, EHS, Maintenance, Engineering, and contractors / vendors tensure that project goals are met. Develops and executes communication plans among project / program working groups, associated leadership teams, and other stakeholders.
• Responsible for executing sustained change management as it applies tprocesses within manufacturing operations. Utilizes change management techniques such as ADKAR effectively drive and sustain process improvements and usage of MOC (management of change) process.

Basic Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications :