Primary location: Macon, Georgia
Relocation offered: Yes
Employment status: Full-Time
Travel:Non-compete: No
The estimated base salary range for this role is "$90,000 to $110,000" per year.
Individual pay is based upon location, skills and expertise, experience and other relevant factors
The Industrial Controls Specialist supports the plant by providing hands-on technical support and owning the control systems for the plant.
What9s in it for you?- Lead cutting-edge PLC, HMI, and SCADA upgrades to modernize plant control systems.
- Own full-cycle automation projects with the ability to directly impact manufacturing efficiency and reliability.
- Collaborate closely with production teams while enjoying low travel demands and strong technical autonomy.
What does an Industrial Controls Specialist do?- Software programming and hardware upgrades to all site control systems including PLC, instrumentation, drives, Scada & HMI systems to replace obsolete equipment, improve performance and drive down total cost of ownership.
- Proactively provide control & instrumentation assistance to the manufacturing team in terms of equipment, maintenance, and production processes and systems.
- Proactively identify and resolve common cause and special cause issues that impact plant reliability and performance.
- Investigate manufacturing problems and recommend corrective actions. This includes consulting with production personnel, analyzing the supporting data, recommending corrective actions, and following through on recommendations to evaluate their effectiveness.
- Develop detailed designs, specifications, and budgetary capital estimates for control system projects. Participate in any acceptance testing and commissioning activities.
- Execute capital projects, ensuring cost, schedule, and performance goals are met or exceeded. This may vary from owning portions of a project to sole ownership of a project.
- Responsible for ensuring local craftsmen are trained on new and existing control systems throughout the plant by either delivering training personally or coordinating the requirements.
- Participating in Lean efforts, such as kaizen events, where an emphasis is placed on creativity before capital investment.
- Provide leadership and technical support regarding machinery safety systems, in particular the safety related parts of the control system. (Design, Verification, Modification, Fault fining on Interlocked guarding, safe torque off, safe speed etc.)
Required Qualifications- Degree in Controls related field (Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Mechatronics etc.) or relevant experience
- Minimum of 5 - 10 years controls experience in a manufacturing environment.
- PLC and HMI programming experience with Rockwell suite of products.
- Experience with Wonderware application programming and support.
- Rockwell RSLogix 5, 500, 5000 Logix designer PLC software
- Rockwell FactoryTalk Studio software
- AB PLC 5, Micrologix, Compactlogix and ControlLogix PLCs
- Panelview and Panelview Plus series HMI9s
- Motor control including variable speed drives and soft starts
- Servo Drives
- DH+, DeviceNet, and Ethernet communications
- Mixing and Batching operations
- Vision Systems
- Wonderware suite of programs (Data Historian, InTouch, Archestra, system platform)
- Robotic control systems
What will make you successful?- Demonstrated Project Management skills.
- Excellent communication skills (verbal, written and presentation)
What will make you stand out?Knowledge of the below systems/ software:
- Database systems, i.e. SQL Server 2012
- Networked system design and configuration
- 480 VAC power distribution
- 4160V motors and controls
- AutoCad experience
Physical and Mental Demands The demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to: sit or stand for prolonged periods; repetitive motion of hands/wrists/fingers; concentrate and repeat the same physical or mental activities over and over; think analytically and be exact or highly accurate; make decisions such as to identify complex problems, develop options and implement solutions; work in a team; ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADAAA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards; pay attention to and remember details; communicate effectively including active listening to understand points being made, and asking appropriate questions and not interrupting inappropriately; speak to convey information effectively; write to communicate effectively as appropriate for the needs of the audience; read to understand work related documents; move between different physical locations within and between buildings; and push, pull, carry and lift in the normal course of travel.
Work Environment The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Requires working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions with standard level of noise common to an office environment including office equipment and co-workers speaking to each other and on phones. Employees are required to wear personal protective equipment when entering the floor of manufacturing facilities based on the specific requirements of each location.
