Industrial Controls Engineer

Canoo Technologies•Oklahoma City, OK

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Canoo is looking for an Industrial Controls Engineer to lead development, commissioning & upkeep of manufacturing equipment & processes including their mechanisms, sensors, actuators, and controls. The Engineer will also support general industrial engineering tasks like quantifying process & operational inefficiencies and developing mechanisms to improve them. This Engineer will work closely with production operations, logistics, product engineering, product quality and other departments. The successful candidate is a self-starter with strong leadership capabilities that can manage multiple projects and priorities at the same time and demonstrates ability to work with minimal supervision.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, robotics or equivalent.
5+ yrs experience in design, development, and production of electromechanical, robotics or other control systems
Experience with programming PLCs or substitute controls software like Labview
Experience with machine design or contracting with designers to design, prototype & productionize machine parts.
Experience with one or more of CAD tools (such as CATIA, NX, Solid woks, AutoCAD etc.)
Experience with DFMEA, PFMEA, GD&T, DFM/DFA studies.

Nice To Haves

Experience in project management preferred, but not required.
Experience in manufacturing environment preferred, but not required.
Experience in automotive industry preferred, but not required.

Responsibilities

Work with engineering and production team, understand the product, process & quality control plans.
Lead process technicians and production team on process issues analysis and problem solving.
Partner with product engineering in early development of the product and ensuring its manufacturing feasibility.
Design & develop equipment & processes to meet product’s & production objectives.
Engage with suppliers, understand their capabilities, develop scope of projects suited for those capabilities, undergo RFQ/PO/invoice/delivery processes, and serve as the interface between multiple suppliers where needed for successful accomplishment of production objectives.
Lead selection of sensors, actuators, and other mechanisms for equipment under consideration.
Lead development of controls including programming where needed.
Develop & update Job instruction sheets for production teams to follow.
Conduct time & process studies to identify inefficiencies and work towards reducing them.
Support issue resolution including root cause investigation & corrective action tracking.
Ensure processes provide a high level of safety and ergonomic compliance.
Support training and coaching of process technicians and associates.
Support production team in optimizing labor utilization, reducing wastes, and reducing scrap