Position: Sr Automation/Controls Engineer
Duration: Direct Hire
Location: Lake Orion, MI
35% travel to customer sites
Knowledge and Skills
- 5+ years Highly Proficient in PLC programming from scratch with Allen Bradley and Siemens
- Familiarity with simulation and/or robot programming practices
- Highly Proficient in HMI design such as ignition or similar HMI software
- Strong Leadership & Interpersonal communication skills
Job Duties:
- Provide leadership and direction to all members of the project team for the successful on-time completion of the job
- Attend all required project meetings and be the controls engineering point of contact between AMT Management and the Customer
- Create and manage a comprehensive controls engineering plan for the project.
- Monitor and evaluate the progress of the project and anticipate challenges
- Provide progress and job status reports to the Controls Engineering Manager
- Review and evaluate the scope of work and project objectives for jobs assigned.
- Evaluate engineering resource requirements and communicate requirements to the Controls Engineering Manager.
- Mentor and coach lower-level engineers assigned to the project to ensure correct design practices and assess progress and address challenge
- Creating recovery plans for overcoming obstacles
- Work with the team to develop standard methods for better efficiency and operation
