Automation (Controls) Engineer

Automation Controls Engineer (Rockwell/Allen Bradley primarily, some Honeywell and Fanuc)

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Electrical and Automation Design and Procurement
• Completely understand and be able to troubleshoot existing systems that have automated control systems currently installed.
• Research and develop for new processes and equipment.
• Develop written specifications and budgets of new automation tools such as robots, co bots, ASRS and other systems that advance the company automation footprint.
• Quote and procure all new systems that align with written specifications and budgets with contract reviews, supplier selection, negotiation and ROI of automated systems and controls.
• Troubleshoot complex automated systems.
• Buyoff of installed automated systems to the written specifications.
• Designs meet or exceed respective codes: Analysis, validation and due diligence is performed to ensure quality of design with a priority on plant and personnel safety.
• Research and review advanced sensing and the integration of these systems into the automation that is designed and developed.
• The Automation engineer will be the corporate Subject Mater Expert and, in some cases, oversee third party automation providers.
• Communicate with the IT department and data science strategies to enable strong data capture, reporting, process certification and machine learning.

• This may include working with IT on a segregated system like a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) from the DCS architecture currently deployed.