Controls Engineer
About The Position
Ultradent is looking for a Controls Automation Engineer with experience in programming and robotics. Our engineering group develops, maintains, and improves custom automated manufacturing systems to support our company’s manufacturing needs. A typical day’s work may include interacting with customers, planning with team members, and programming, designing, or debugging new and existing equipment. You will work closely with a multi-disciplinary, experienced engineering team to complete your projects. We place heavy emphasis on continuous learning and improvement, both on an individual level and throughout machine development.
Requirements
- Experience in programming and robotics.
- Five or more years of experience in machine design (exceptional applicants with two or more years of experience in a related industry may be considered).
- Four-year degree in an engineering or computer science field.
- Familiarity with Beckhoff’s TwinCAT software, including structured text.
- Systems thinking – ability to analyze a complex system, both as a whole and in its parts, and design/make improvements from both perspectives.
- Programming – ability to model a physical process in structured text, using developed standards and good programming practices, and model an HMI display that is both functional and adds value to an end user.
- Electrical Design – familiarity with common electrical components and design standards, ability to read electrical schematics, and experience creating schematics.
- Debug – ability to use knowledge and experience to track down bugs in code and hardware designs, using a process of review, simulation, and elimination.
- Project management – ability to manage time and resources to stay on target for delivery dates, hold peers to high standards, and openly communicate project status.
- Prototyping – ability to convert innovative ideas into working prototypes to answer unknowns in an application.
- Experience documenting prototypes, unknowns, and lessons learned.
- Electrical Design Reviews – familiarity with electrical schematics to verify design meets intended need, and ability to give constructive and valuable feedback and corrections.
- Statistics – ability to gather empirical data from prototypes and processes to support design decisions and help customers make manufacturing decisions.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with Beckhoff’s TwinCAT software environment is highly desirable.
- Experience with Object-Oriented Programming (OOP).
- Experience with Test-Driven Software Development (TDD).
- Experience with source control.
- Experience with performing software design reviews.
- Familiarity with OEE, throughput, and other manufacturing statistics is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Programming, designing, or debugging new and existing equipment.
- Interacting with customers.
- Planning with team members.
- Developing, maintaining, and improving custom automated manufacturing systems.
- Simulating proposed software changes.
- Developing physical prototypes.
- Gathering empirical data from prototypes and processes to support design decisions and help customers make manufacturing decisions.
Benefits
- Access to hardware and tools required to develop physical prototypes, including 3D printing and CNC machining.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
