Controls Engineer

Weiss North America Inc•Willoughby, OH

2d•Onsite

About The Position

WEISS North America is seeking a Controls Engineer with strong troubleshooting skills to support our products from build stage through customer integration. Our customers are machine builders and integrators connecting WEISS technologies into their own machine architectures, and they rely on our support by phone, video conference, and email to get that interface working. This is a hands-on engineering role requiring the ability to work directly with electrical control systems, field devices, and automated machinery during assembly, commissioning, and customer support activities. The ideal candidate will demonstrate depth in either the Rockwell or the Siemens ecosystem, with real comfort in networking, logic sequencing, and troubleshooting. Parallel skills must include safe electrical practice and sound engineering fundamentals, along with the patience and temperament to walk a customer through correcting a problem while their production line is down and timing is critical. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 3 years’ experience of motion control components and controls, machinery, and factory automation equipment. The Controls Engineer must have a strong fundamental knowledge of control and electrical system design and its application in automated industrial designs. The ability to understand equipment integration and machine building is key in this position. This position does require travel for service, up to 15%.

Requirements

Minimum of 3 years’ experience of motion control components and controls, machinery, and factory automation equipment.
Strong fundamental knowledge of control and electrical system design and its application in automated industrial designs.
Ability to understand equipment integration and machine building.
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology, or Mechatronics, or an Associate’s Degree with equivalent demonstrated experience
5 or more years of controls experience on automated machinery or integrated production equipment; 8 years or more if non-degreed
Strong, demonstrated troubleshooting ability in either ecosystem – Rockwell (Studio 5000, RSLogix, Kinetix, FactoryTalk) or Siemens (TIA Portal, SINAMICS) – able to work through an unfamiliar machine and isolate a fault under pressure
Command of electrical engineering fundamentals sufficient to work safely and efficiently on systems up to 1000 V
Servo and VFD sizing, drive configuration, and motion tuning capability
Multi-axis motion experience, including synchronous and asynchronous mapping for rotary, linear, and combined motion profiles
Electrical schematics and circuit diagrams, load calculations, and SCCR ratings; fluent generation and revision of drawings in AutoCAD Electrical, SOLIDWORKS Electrical, or EPLAN
Control panel layout and enclosure design capability
Working knowledge of NFPA 79, the NEC, and UL 508A as applied to control panels and machine wiring, and familiarity with machine safety requirements under ISO 13849-1 or IEC 62061
Proficient with the Microsoft Office suite
Effective verbal communication skills
Must be able to work independently with little supervision.
Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills
Efficiently organize and plan work tasks to meet company goals and balance multiple projects and tasks with a sense of urgency
Able to stand or walk for the majority of the day and able to lift 50 pounds on a needed basis and up to 75 pounds with assistance
Able to regularly apply physical mobility (stretching, lifting, bending, twisting, etc.) to perform all assembly related assignments

Responsibilities

Serve as a primary technical resource for Sales, production, and customers on controls, motion, and electrical issues
Provide remote support to customer engineering teams integrating our units into their machine systems – drive setup, encoder feedback, homing, safety interfacing, and communication to their controller
Diagnose faults across electrical, controls, drive, network, and instrumentation domains and drive them to resolution
Perform root cause analysis and feed corrective action back into design, documentation, and the parent factory
Travel to customer sites as needed for startup, commissioning, and escalated field issues
Develop control panel layouts and enclosure designs; produce and revise schematics in AutoCAD Electrical, SOLIDWORKS Electrical, or equivalent
Specify and verify wiring, motor connections, connectivity, grounding, and shielding for servo and VFD applications
Power up, configure, and functionally test systems prior to shipment; execute and document Factory Acceptance Testing
Support the production and assembly floor with test equipment and project-related electrical questions, issues, and failures
Configure, program, and troubleshoot PLC logic and HMI applications
Size and select motors, drives, and machine power distribution – transformers, overcurrent protection, and conductor sizing.
Configure drives and encoder feedback (various coded incremental and absolute); perform tuning, homing, and network setup
Following training from WEISS, become a key technical resource in W.A.S. (WEISS Application Software) for product support and controls offerings
Work safely on and around systems operating up to 1000 V, including three-phase distribution and servo DC bus circuits; apply NFPA 70E practice, lockout/tagout, and stored energy verification
Apply NFPA 79, NFPA 70 (NEC), and UL 508A to panel design and machine wiring; support UL field evaluations
Maintain schematics, revisions, test records, and customer turnover documentation; contribute to company standards and SOPs
Perform other miscellaneous job duties and related functions as directed