Job Description

The Company:

Founded in 2000, the company was built with the vision to deliver exceptional customer service and scalable, custom systems for expanding plant facilities.

As employee-owners, our client is invested in the company’s future and looking for talented professionals to help them grow and innovate. They provide a warm, inviting, down-to-earth and hardworking culture where you’ll have many opportunities to demonstrate your expertise and position yourself for career advancement.

The Opportunity:

This position is responsible for overseeing controls engineering project requirements involving control system and panel design, PLC and HMI programming, instrumentation, and start-up assistance. You’ll oversee large-scale electronic components for automation of the company’s custom products to exceed customer needs. This position will be the Controls Project Manager for projects ranging from $2M+ while partnering with process engineers to complete projects in the $50M+ range. Located in Cokato, MN you will work at the company’s headquarters alongside experts in engineering, manufacturing, and the food and dairy industry.

Client is open to relocation or creative hybrid work for the right candidate.

Your Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and implement control system to meet process system requirements
• Develop schematics detailing control system configuration and wiring, and design equipment panel layouts
• Own projects from idea to completion including participating in the commissioning and start-up process both remotely and at the customer jobsite(s)
• Manage, train and develop a team of engineers
• Partner with process engineers in developing the control system scheme and equipment list
• Lay out IO for controls panels and redline existing drawings
• Test control panels and set up instruments and devices
• Perform PLC and HMI programming, and custom reporting
• Perform in-house program testing and customer factory acceptance testing
• Develop SOPs for the control system
• Train the end user on operating the control system
• Member of the on-call support team for existing customers’ technical support
• Technical lead on projects mentoring and guiding lower-level engineers
• Other duties as assigned

Your Education & Experience:

Required:

• 6+ years of experience in custom automation
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical or mechanical engineering OR equivalent years of experience in automation
• 2+ years of experience managing a team

Preferred:

• Experience with AutoCAD and/or EPlan
• Experience with Ignition and/or Wonderware
• Experience within the food and beverage industry

Your Skills & Knowledge:

• An in-depth understanding of control systems, components, logic programming, experience with instrumentation and controls design and PLC systems (specifically Rockwell)
• Strong demonstrated mechanical aptitude
• Ability to work well with team members, clients, and subcontractors
• Right to work in the U.S. that is not based solely on possession of a student visa or a visa sponsored by a third-party employer

Travel:

Up to 30% during commissioning/install

Benefits:

• Industry-Leading Wage
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• 401K
• HSA Savings
• Medical
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off

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