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Associate Electrical Engineer (Wilson, NC)
Title: Associate Electrical Engineer @ Wilson, NC
Terms of Hire: Full Time.
Salary: $ Open / yr + Benefits.
Job description
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
Support maintenance crew when requested on all Automation/controls issues to reduce NOT. Down machines for automation/controls issues are always a top priority for AEE. Find ways to reduce NOT calls by creating a countermeasure on every call you go to. The countermeasure will be the AEE projects as this can be an updating HMI program to direct the BMT to the root cause of the issue, a one-point lesson, update schematics, provide training, find a replacement for an obsolete part, etc.
Assist Area Engineers with no time-sensitive projects. Assist Area Engineers during plant shutdown. Fill for an area engineer when they cannot be in two places at once or if they have a project they must turn over to nights/weekend to provide coverage till day shift. Attend morning dept. meetings or maintenance turnover meetings to stay in the loop of what’s going on in each department.
Key Working Relationships:
The Associate Electrical Engineer will work under the Engineering Manager but will also be expected to work under their own initiative. There is a need in this plant for excellent communication between maintenance and engineer regarding machine condition and continuous improvement on the floor. Including also an individual that will reduce NOT by sticking with an issue on equipment and following it from troubleshooting to creating and implementing the countermeasure for it. The AEE will be actively communicating with both the area engineers and maintenance to see where their skills can be used to improve any certain task. The AEE will get maintenance assistance requests only from the Maintenance shift lead not a BMT. Once at the machine the AEE will work side by side with the BMT(s) providing troubleshooting advice and making code changes if necessary. For each task the AEE is involved in they will provide status updates to the shift lead, and the area engineer till the task is complete.
Preferred familiarity:
Terms of Hire: Full Time.
Salary: $ Open / yr + Benefits.
Job description
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
Support maintenance crew when requested on all Automation/controls issues to reduce NOT. Down machines for automation/controls issues are always a top priority for AEE. Find ways to reduce NOT calls by creating a countermeasure on every call you go to. The countermeasure will be the AEE projects as this can be an updating HMI program to direct the BMT to the root cause of the issue, a one-point lesson, update schematics, provide training, find a replacement for an obsolete part, etc.
Assist Area Engineers with no time-sensitive projects. Assist Area Engineers during plant shutdown. Fill for an area engineer when they cannot be in two places at once or if they have a project they must turn over to nights/weekend to provide coverage till day shift. Attend morning dept. meetings or maintenance turnover meetings to stay in the loop of what’s going on in each department.
Key Working Relationships:
The Associate Electrical Engineer will work under the Engineering Manager but will also be expected to work under their own initiative. There is a need in this plant for excellent communication between maintenance and engineer regarding machine condition and continuous improvement on the floor. Including also an individual that will reduce NOT by sticking with an issue on equipment and following it from troubleshooting to creating and implementing the countermeasure for it. The AEE will be actively communicating with both the area engineers and maintenance to see where their skills can be used to improve any certain task. The AEE will get maintenance assistance requests only from the Maintenance shift lead not a BMT. Once at the machine the AEE will work side by side with the BMT(s) providing troubleshooting advice and making code changes if necessary. For each task the AEE is involved in they will provide status updates to the shift lead, and the area engineer till the task is complete.
Preferred familiarity:
- Allen Bradley – PLC 5, SL 500 series, Control Logix, compact Logix
- VFD- Siemens, Mitsubishi, Allen Bradley, GE
- Servo- Yaskawa, Mitsubishi, Allen Bradley
- HMI- Allen Bradley, Siemens, Schneider, Eaton
- Communication Protocols – Ethernet/IP, Data Highway, Profibus, Melsec
- Must be willing to work a DuPont schedule. PLC programming Associate's in Electrical Engineering.
- An opportunity to be a part of a great culture, an awesome team, a challenging work environment, and some fun along the way!
- Apply today to learn more and be part of our Growth story.
Department: Scout
This is a full time position