Engineer - Controls & Automation III

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own the control-system architecture of a two-controller machine — a motion controller carrying the coordinated servo and scanner axes alongside a PLC carrying process, material handling, and safety — including the…
• Perform PLC software development and maintenance across numerous subsystems: fluid and gas flow and pressure, material handling, motion control, temperature control, machine and process diagnostics, data and error…
• Develop and maintain coordinated multi-axis motion control, including master/slave electronically-coupled axes, separation monitoring, de-skew, and the servo tuning that keeps a large coupled structure stable under…
• Develop, tune, and troubleshoot high-resolution encoder feedback chains, including diagnosis of intermittent and velocity-dependent feedback faults across an operating fleet
• Build and maintain the error-mapping and calibration routines that correct position-dependent geometric error — squareness, yaw, droop, and thermal-growth effects — in large coupled-axis systems
• Develop and maintain machine-side application software in C++ or comparable languages, including real-time and buffered execution where computation must stay ahead of machine motion
• Build and maintain electrical schematics and P&ID drawings, and drawings of electrical cabinet layout and critical cable and wire routings
• Work with internal and outsourced electricians for electrical cabinet assembly

Job requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
• 5+ years of experience with machine tool automation and industrial controls
• Prior experience with PLC programming and HMI design
• Prior experience creating, modifying, and delivering electrical schematics and P&ID drawings
• Prior experience with industrial control networks (EtherCAT, EtherNet/IP, Modbus TCP)
• Prior experience with servo motion control, including drive sizing, tuning, and encoder feedback
• Working knowledge of machine safety requirements and their implementation in control logic
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot a machine in operation, not only in simulation