Electro/Mechanical Design Engineer
R-V Industries Inc•Honey Brook, PA
About The Position
Genesis Packaging Technologies, a division of R-V Industries, Inc., provides parenteral vial capping machinery and laboratory inspection equipment, primarily for the pharmaceutical industry. Its products are highly configurable standard products, designed to offer energy efficiency, process flexibility, and non-proprietary components supported by service and support. The Electro/Mechanical Design Engineer reviews electrical, controls, and mechanical job specifications and verifies that quoted equipment configurations meet applicable specifications, codes, and standards. The role follows and manages design standards for specialized equipment and champions continuous improvement. It is safety-sensitive and involves technical support for equipment design, manufacture, testing, installation, and customer communication. Global travel may be necessary.
Requirements
- Genuine care for others and ability to thrive in a team environment.
- Willingness and ability to lead a team with a servant-leadership mentality.
- Passion for mechanical and controls design and manufacturing methods.
- High attention to detail in creating and upholding design standards.
- Multiple years of experience with AutoCAD and SolidWorks.
- Understanding of P&ID diagrams.
- Knowledge of pneumatic controls and component specification.
- Knowledge of AWS welding symbols and geometric tolerancing.
- Strong technical writing skills.
- Experience with electrical control hardware selection.
- Experience with ladder logic, function block, and structured text programming.
- Experience with Studio 5000, RSLogix 500, and RSLogix 5000 programming.
- Experience with PanelView and PanelView+ programming.
- Experience selecting and programming variable frequency drives and servo drives.
- Experience selecting and programming safety PLCs and safety relays.
- Knowledge of interface communication protocols.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
- Ability to write specifications for buyout components and create bills of materials for purchasing and production.
- Strong communication and organizational skills.
- Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.
- Ability to perform all essential job functions with or without accommodation.
Nice To Haves
- Project management experience.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Project.
- Knowledge of cGMP validation, design, and documentation protocols.
- Vision system selection and programming experience.
- Panel PC and industrial PC data acquisition and SCADA system development experience.
Responsibilities
- Review purchase orders, specifications, and technical documentation needed to build, assemble, and test equipment, including customer URS, functional specifications, P&IDs, drawings, component specifications, bills of materials, and procedures.
- Select electrical controls hardware to meet job or customer specifications.
- Design, develop, and maintain PLC-based control system programs.
- Create and maintain PLC control system lifecycle documentation, including URS, FRS, SDS, validation protocols, FAT, IQ/OQ, and manuals.
- Ensure control system quality and compliance with project specifications, FRS, applicable codes, and standards.
- Support maintenance of electrical and mechanical drawings, diagrams, design documents, hardware part numbers, programs, and manuals related to or supporting the PLC control system.
- Execute product enhancement and development projects, including leading team evaluations of engineering change requests, defining change scope, and verifying results.
- Generate testing protocols to validate new components or processes.
- Manage responsibilities for the ECR/ECN system, including researching and writing ECRs for review, verifying form/fit/function impacts, identifying affected active drawings, redlining drawings or evaluating them for obsolescence, establishing dispositions, and verifying electronic filing of relevant information.
- Apply fundamental mechanical engineering principles to the design, selection, and application of Genesis products and services.
- Travel globally when necessary.
- Assist Sales, Project Managers, Purchasing, Quality, Manufacturing, Testing, and Installation with product-related technical issues.
- Communicate with customers’ technical personnel.
- Create P&ID diagrams, process diagrams, wiring diagrams, and panel layouts.
- Create or check layout and detailed drawings, write specifications for buyout components, and create bills of materials for purchasing and production.
