Electrical Controls Engineer Senior

Johnson Outdoors • Eufaula, AL

323d

About The Position

The Electrical Controls Engineer Senior provides direction for electrical controls engineering standards throughout the manufacturing process. This role involves producing project documentation that includes prints and engineering files, supplier communications, and Engineering Change Orders (ECO's). The engineer maintains electrical control systems on production equipment, designs, develops, and tests all aspects of electrical components, equipment, and machinery. They read schematics and layouts and support best design protocol and analysis. The engineer contributes to the team with proven knowledge applicable to fields such as analog and digital sensors, PLC Controls, software design and development, and pneumatic controls. Additionally, they provide production support to maintain quality and production output to budgets, troubleshoot and design solutions to improve equipment reliability, and collaborate with Operations, R&D, Quality, and outside suppliers during new product development stages. The engineer manages a range of smaller to complex projects from concept to completion, developing timelines and ensuring project success by maintaining timeline targets, budget responsibilities, and quality requirements. Other duties may be assigned as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering (BSEE), electrical engineering technologies (EET) or equivalent.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in developing, programming, and testing electrical controls systems.
• PLC and Motion Control programming, testing, and debugging experience, primarily with Allen-Bradley CompactLogix PLC's utilizing EtherNet/IP, IO-Link, ModBus TCP and discrete I/O.
• Advanced skills in electrical engineering design tools including Power Distribution, Testing, and Data Collection equipment.
• Advanced knowledge and skills in designing, building, evaluating, and testing industrial electronic and/or electrical circuits and components.
• Advanced electrical design and layout experience including power distribution, I/O devices, sensors, etc.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex design programming and testing of electrical controls systems.
• Advanced understanding of mechanics and basic mechanical skills.
• Technical writing skills for procedures and manuals, and experience in reading and drawing schematics.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work with customers, vendors, other engineers, machinists, assemblers, wiremen, technicians, and supervisors.
• High degree of flexibility and willingness to work on a wide variety of projects and tasks.
• Demonstrated creativity with strong analytical and technical expertise.

Nice To Haves

• Preferred experience in developing HMI, PLC and Vision System programs from start to completion.
• Preferred experience with Keyence Vision and Turck HMI's, IAI Linear Actuators, and Fanuc 6-axis robots.
• Bachelors or better in Electronics Engineering Technology or related field.

Responsibilities

• Provides direction for electrical controls engineering standards throughout the manufacturing process.
• Produces project documentation including prints and engineering files, supplier communications, and Engineering Change Orders (ECO's).
• Maintains electrical control systems on production equipment.
• Designs, develops, and tests all aspects of electrical components, equipment, and machinery.
• Reads schematics and layouts and supports best design protocol and analysis.
• Contributes knowledge in fields such as analog and digital sensors, PLC Controls, software design and development, and pneumatic controls.
• Provides production support to maintain quality and production output to budgets.
• Troubleshoots and designs solutions to improve equipment reliability.
• Collaborates with Operations, R&D, Quality, and outside suppliers during new product development stages.
• Manages a range of smaller to complex projects from concept to completion.
• Develops timelines and ensures project success by maintaining timeline targets, budget responsibilities, and quality requirements.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Miscellaneous Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree