Title:  Specialist, Manufacturing Engineer (Controls Engineer)

Job Title: Specialist, Manufacturing Engineer – Controls Engineer

Job Code: 42232

Job Location: Cincinnati, OH

Job Schedule: 4/10: Employees work 10 hour days, 4 days per week

Job Description:

This position supports strategic programs essential to maintaining U.S. Armed Forces’ readiness.  The successful Controls Engineer will contribute as a member of the manufacturing engineering team by designing, developing, installing, managing, and maintaining equipment which is used to monitor and control production equipment and processes.

Essential Functions:

• Provide technical expertise and support related to manufacturing equipment controls.
• Develop equipment safety and technical specifications.
• PLC programming.
• Trap, identify, and correct equipment controls intermittent problems.
• Legacy equipment upgrades.
• Develop interface systems for internal operations.
• Support knowledge base systems and information sharing.
• Backup old and new equipment to a central server.
• Vision system programming.
• Robot troubleshooting and programming.
• Assist in automating processes to save time and project cost.
• Review and update operational processes.
• Plan, advise, and implement effective systems to boost manufacturing.
• Interface with equipment vendors and specify equipment through writing Statement of Requirements documents.
• Prepare capital equipment requests.
• Prepare estimates for proposal responses.
• Travel can be up to 10%.
• Ability to obtain a US Security Clearance.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience OR Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience.  In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.
• Prior experience integrating, maintaining, and troubleshooting control systems in a production environment.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Experience in the defense or aerospace industry.
• 7+ years of work experience related to support and implementation of equipment and control systems in a manufacturing environment.
• Hands on experience with Allen Bradley hardware, Rockwell software, and Keyence vision systems.