Electrical Project Engineer

Key responsibilities:

- Lead the development of custom control systems, including specifications, layouts, schematics, logic diagrams, wiring, grounding, and other custom control hardware required for machine control systems

- Compose protection and control equipment specifications

- Be the contact liaison for technical issues with the customer

- Develop and execute start-up, testing and commissioning plans

- Coordinate with team members on technical matters to meet project specifications, cost control and schedule objectives

- Interface with internal and external team members such as principal engineers, control engineers, electrical designers, project managers, engineering leaders and support organizations

- Involvement with the controls scope for proposals, including writing and/or reviewing technical specifications, estimating design man-hours and materials, supporting sourcing for vendor quotations, and the development of clarifications and exceptions as well as technical responses

- Initiate and execute design and process improvements

- Perform root cause analysis and execute corrective actions

- Work in conjunction with team to ensure new machine or process designs are compliant with current specifications detailed in industry codes

Key qualifications:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or Industrial Engineering Technology

- 5 or more years of prior industrial controls and automation experience on projects of various sizes and complexities

- Experience with PLC programming required. Rockwell Automation experience preferred.

- Knowledge of and experience using industry standards and codes, and ability to engineer design based on customer specifications

- Ability to take projects from design to completion

- Previous experience with the design, programming and troubleshooting of vision, motion and robotic systems preferred

- Demonstrated electrical and mechanical troubleshooting capability

- Strong communication, organizational and interpersonal skills

- Ability to work in a team environment and interface directly with customers and vendors

- Ability to lead other engineers and be accountable for team results in order to deliver a high quality product on time and under budget

- Ability to develop and implement standards and structured programs

- Excellent computer skills, including proficiency in Outlook, Excel and Word'