Controls Project Engineer (Airport)

Overview

The company is currently seeking an experienced Controls Project Engineer.

Responsibilities

The Project Engineer manages the controls development and delivery of airport baggage security systems. You will partner with the project manager, engineering staff and our customer to deliver a successful project. You will lead a team designing electrical device layouts, control panel drawings, wiring schematics, descriptions of operations, PLC programming, and graphical reporting systems.

Major Areas of Responsibility

• Supervising a team of Controls Engineer employees including performance revies, timecards, and adherence to employment requirements.
• Executing projects from conception through client handover.
• Coordinating a team of controls engineers and detailers in cooperation with a mechanical engineering team and project management.
• Managing requirements, integration, and configuration changes throughout projects.
• Engaging team members by delegation of work both on a long term and on a day-to-day basis.
• Creatively solving problems to optimize resources, scheduling, and budget.
• Meet timelines to ensure projects stay on schedule and on budget.
• Coachingteam members on project execution and proposing technical solutions for complex problems.
• Overseeing system functionality and technical quality of automated applications.
• Attend design review meetings with the customer.
• Support proposals and customer inquiries. Estimate new project work.
• Identifying and implementing improvement initiatives.
• 20% Travel

Basic Knowledge

• Engineering and Technology  Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of systems and services.
• Project Execution 6 Knowledge of project management life-cycle from requirements gathering through design and implementation.
• English Language Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

Qualifications

Basic Skills & Abilities

• Time Management  Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Critical Thinking  Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• Judgment and Decision Making  Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate course.
• Monitoring  Monitoring/Assessing performance of you, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Verbal and Written Expression and Recognition  Listening to, understanding, and communicating information and ideas through spoken or written words and sentences.
• Problem Sensitivity  The ability to tell when something is wrong, or is likely to go wrong, even if the solution to the problem is not obvious.
• Detail Oriented 6 Strong attention to detail.
• Conscientiousness 6 Thorough and diligent in ones duties. Recognizes tasks that need to be completed and facilitates the completion of those tasks independently.
• Customer sites are located throughout the country; the selected candidate for this role will need totravel for commissioning of control systems and on-site engineering tasks that cannot be accomplished from our office.On occasion off-shift work may be necessary to support commissioning efforts.

Education & Experience

• BSEE, E.T. or relevant technical degree, or equivalent relevant work experience.
• Five (5) years of experience in industrial automation controls design and commissioning.
• Experience managing a project and related people resources.
• Scheduling and estimating experience.
• Experience with Allen Bradley PLC Programming (ControlLogix).
• Experience within the material handling industry, preferred.
• Experience with material handling equipment, preferred.
• Baggage handling experience, preferred.
• Scheduling and estimating experience required.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.

Demonstrated Physical Abilities

Remain stationary for 50% of the time; move/traverse throughout the office to access file cabinets and office equipment; operate a computer and other productivity machinery; inspect documents; communicate with others through talking/hearing; read/identify/assess forms and correspondence.

Daifuku Airport America Corporation offers an excellent compensation package including great benefits such as excellent medical, vision, and dental insurance, paid vacation time, paid sick time, and paid holidays, 401K, Flexible Spending Programs, and more.

At this time our company only receives applications online. If you need assistance applying online to this position, please call 248-553-1000 and leave a message and your call will be returned.

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