Senior Industrial Controls Engineer

What we need

We are seeking a Senior Industrial Controls Engineer. The candidate is part of our Industrial Automation team and will be reporting to the Senior Manager Industrial Controls Engineering and have a leadership role in driving the execution of the PLC development and implementation. The ideal candidate is customer-driven, proactive, and comfortable taking the initiative to gather information and collaborate directly with end users to understand requirements and deliver effective solutions.

What you'll do

• Elaborate, define, and plan technical work from well defined objectives, validating requirements with internal and external stakeholders.

• Elaborate and lead the execution of test strategies, execute test plan, generate test reports, and demonstrate compliance with requirements.

• Independently execute technical work, which may involve the technical supervision of other resources.

• Autonomous and self-driving, requiring minimal supervision.

• Lead improvement initiatives, review and approve technical solutions within existing architectures.

• Coach and develop lesser experienced employees.

• Gather information and validate requirements to execute root cause analysis to resolve issues with internal and external stakeholders.

• Provide new control system functionalities and modify existing solutions which includes PLC and HMI.

• Document equipment configuration, system functionality and features, and Industrial Controls team processes and procedures.

• Collaborate with Release management and perform PLC and HMI updates for the customer, on-site or remotely.

• Support customers to address unforeseen issues.

• Lead the design effort for a dedicated system.

• Contribute to and potentially lead process improvement initiatives.

• Support Production Sites.

What you'll need

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering or Automation Engineer or Computer science or in a related discipline.

• Knowledge of Power Systems to design drive controls.

• Experience with AC/DC Drive Control Architecture.

• Minimum of 8 years in Design & Implementation of Industrial Control systems using PLCs, HMIs, and Drives.

• Minimum of 8 years’ of Programming PLCs, HMIs, and related equipment for Industrial Control Systems (Rockwell products preferred).

• Minimum of 8 years’ experience with automated systems engineering.

• Advanced experience programming Rockwell PLC’s (ControlLogix, GuardLogix).

• Advanced knowledge of Industrial networks.

• Experience developing and programming Human Machine Interface (Ignition 8, FactoryTalk ME/SE).

• Able to understand and read electrical and mechanical schematics.

• Strong background in troubleshooting complex automated system.

• Experience with JIRA and agile methodology is a plus.

• Having experience of organizing a team and prioritizing tasks.

• Knowledge in Rockwell and Inductive Automation products is a plus.

• Travel approximatively 40% to various customer locations (Canada and United States).

Our environment

• Up to 45% of travel may be required. Employees must have a valid driver’s license and the ability to drive and/or fly to client and other customer locations.

• The employee is responsible for owning a credit card and managing expenses personally to be reimbursed on a bi-weekly basis.

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