Automation Engineer

Sparrow Company•Sparks, NV

11h•Onsite

About The Position

The Automation Engineer will be responsible for developing, implementing, and participating in all safety programs, rules, and procedures. This role involves maintaining a proactive working relationship with plant personnel to continuously improve overall safety and administering a preventative maintenance plan for the reliable operation of plant process servers and the overall process network. The engineer will ensure all HMI and PLC programs are kept current and backed up regularly, and assist corporate IT personnel in maintaining the reliable operation of plant office computer servers. Additionally, the role contributes to achieving company production goals in waste and delay, trains existing employees to maintain competent skill levels in the maintenance department, and incorporates new equipment and/or processes into the existing process network, which may include developing new PLC programming and interfacing associated HMI screens. The engineer will maintain proactive working habits to improve overall equipment reliability, take an active role in inter-departmental communications, especially explaining new equipment, controls, or programming changes to production personnel, and troubleshoot plant upset conditions, assisting in resolving equipment malfunctions. Participation in the development and implementation of all established company policies is also required, acting as a role model in compliance and enforcement for all personnel. Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned.

Requirements

Bachelors or better in Electrical Engineering or related field.
Minimum of 4 years plant engineering or maintenance experience in an automated manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

Actively develop, implement and participate in all safety programs, rules and procedures.
Maintain proactive working habits with all plant personnel to continuously improve overall safety.
Administer preventative maintenance plan for reliable operation of plant process servers, and overall process network.
Ensure that all HMI and PLC programs are kept current and backed up on a regular basis.
Assist corporate IT personnel in maintaining reliable operation of the plant office computer servers.
Assist in achieving company production goals in waste and delay.
Train existing employees to maintain competent skill level in the maintenance department.
Incorporate new equipment and/or processes into the existing process network when necessary. This can include developing new PLC programming and interfacing associated HMI screens.
Maintain proactive working habits to improve overall reliability of equipment.
Take an active role in communications between departments, especially explaining new equipment additions, controls, or programming changes to production personnel.
Troubleshoot plant upset conditions and assist in resolving equipment malfunctions.
Participate in development and implementation of all established company policies.
Act as a role model in compliance and enforcement for all personnel.
All other duties and responsibilities, as assigned.