Controls Engineer at Portacool LLC – Richmond, Virginia

Purpose of Role

We’re on the search for our newest Controls Engineer! As a Controls Engineer, you will be responsible for the application, evaluation, development, project management, commissioning, and system management of manufacturing industrial automation and control systems. The Controls Engineer will make lasting improvements with fact-based decision making and is proven to be vital to the success of our company!

Key Duties and Responsibilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty to a competent level. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Evaluate and troubleshoot facility and manufacturing control systems consisting of PLCs, AC and DC drives, computer controls, and HMI interfaces as well as traditional contactor type controls and process instrumentation.
• Design and implement improvements to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve reliability of existing plant and manufacturing control systems and equipment.
• Design control systems and prepare drawings, specifications, and scopes of work.
• Write new, or modify existing, PLC programs, and make system hardware recommendations to resolve operation problems, improve processes, and implement new project designs to support factory initiatives and continuous improvement.
• Document and maintain revisions to existing automated systems and maintain appropriate PLC and computer software/hardware information.
• Interface with the IT Department and upper-level computer system personnel to ensure proper application of computer controls and database instructions.
• Provide electrical engineering, hardware design, systems integration, PLC programming, motion programming, HMI configuration, component specification, project management, and start-up and commissioning of capital projects.
• Support and assist Maintenance personnel in troubleshooting, testing, modifying, and installing electrical equipment and control systems.
• Support and participate in implementation of and improvements to Manufacturing Execution System
• May perform other related duties as assigned.