Electrical Controls Engineer
About The Position
ST Equipment & Technology (STET) is seeking a highly skilled Electrical Controls Engineer to join their engineering team. This role is crucial in designing, integrating, and supporting the automation systems for STET’s advanced separator equipment. The position involves designing industrial control systems, developing PLC and HMI software, configuring networked automation environments, and providing support for both local and remote operations for global customers. The engineer will work with complex electrical systems, instrumentation, networking, and industrial communication technologies, collaborating with cross-functional teams. This role offers opportunities to contribute to major capital projects, qualify cutting-edge automation technologies, and travel internationally for equipment installation commissioning. The position is based at STET’s Technical Center in Needham, MA.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical or computer engineering is required.
- Must have at least two (2) years of experience working with industrial equipment controls
- Programming experience with PLC (Allen-Bradley Studio 5000 preferred, RSLogix500, DirectLogic).
- Programming and design experience with HMI (Inductive Automation Ignition preferred, Aveva InTouch, C-more).
- Programing Historian server (Aveva Historian, Ignition Historian)
- Excellent understanding of electrical wiring, high voltage equipment, sensors, computers, networking, industrial communication, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with electric heater temperature control, CNC machine control, stepper motor control
- Experience with motor control with VFD configuration
- Experience with instruments (linear distance, vacuum, temperature, flow, tension)
- Working knowledge of electrical drawing software (AutoCAD or Solidworks)
- Excellent communication skills for working with customers and team members.
- Position requires ability to travel internationally for commissioning and troubleshooting
Responsibilities
- Design and install the electrical and control systems for STET separator equipment to meet US NEC and/or international codes, safety requirements, and guidelines.
- Design of industrial controls, electrical control and software for processing plant capital projects
- Develop logic programming for PLC.
- Design user interface for HMI.
- Work with electrical and P&ID drawings
- Qualify and choose control suppliers of automation and industrial control products
- Design and set-up Local Area Networks (LANs), Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
- Configure control computers, servers and communication devices for local and remote support
- Provide remote technical support to existing sites.
- Travel to project sites as some international travel required for commissioning new installations of STET separator equipment at remote customer sites
Benefits
- full range of company benefits
- exceptional educational and career opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
