Electrical Engineer
Fredericksburg, VA
Electrical Engineer
Hands-on design, programming, troubleshooting, startup, and commissioning of process control systems for industrial machinery and material handling systems, with customer-site travel when required. Requires a BSEE or job-related experience, 1-3 years related experience, and familiarity with PLCs, industrial control systems, and AutoCAD/SolidWorks Electrical.
This position supports the efforts of the Engineering Department by proficient hands-on design and programing of process control systems for use in the auxiliary industrial machinery and material handling systems.
Roles/ Responsibilities :
Qualifications:
Roles/ Responsibilities :
- Develops and designs electrical controls for use in auxiliary industrial machinery and material handling systems
- Designs, documents, programs, or contracts programming work for PLC circuits and systems
- Develops and maintains U.L. industrial control panel and flame control panel programs
- Troubleshoots, writes, and modifies control circuits on manufactured or testing machinery and systems
- Travels to customer's sites when required to develop, startup, or troubleshoot electrical, systems, PLC and proprietary controls on UNA-DYN supplied machinery and systems
- Creates and reads logic and flow diagrams for program design, programming, simulation and testing, and start-up
- Performs all aspects of start-up and commissioning new control systems
- Develops bills of material/controls expenditures within limitations of project budget
- Creates and assembles final documentation
- Uses Computer Aided Design (CAD) technology and techniques to prepare or delegate the preparation of drawings from own layouts, rough sketches, or concepts
- Prepares bills of material (BOM) and other documentation in SAP
- Contacts suppliers to receive pricing and technical information for purchase on projects
- Meets with customers and our representatives in field for site review/pre-engineering evaluation
- Ensures all changes and modifications are appropriately documented and noted correctly
- Ensures customers have sufficient information i.e., drawings, manuals, documentation, to facilitate a successful installation and operation
- Interfaces closely with mechanical, systems, and electrical engineers, drafters, and designers to develop electrical schematics and detailing
- Works closely with manufacturing during control panel manufacture
- Attends meetings and seminars for updated job information and professional development training
Qualifications:
- A Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) degree and 1-3 years of directly related experience in an Electrical Engineering role. Job-related-experience (JRE) can be substituted for education.
- Familiarity with automated industrial machine controls and PLC's
- Previous experience / knowledge Computer aided drafting and design technologies and techniques
- AutoCAD & SolidWorks Electrical Drafting
- Industrial control systems
- Programmable logic controls (PLC)
- Process control systems