Electrical Engineering Specialist

4 weeks ago


Buffalo Grove, Illinois, United States Flextronics Full time
Job Summary

Flex is seeking a highly skilled Controls Engineer to join our team in Buffalo Grove, IL. As a Controls Engineer, you will provide technical expertise in the areas of controls and electronic circuitry to achieve safety, quality, and productivity targets in a medical device manufacturing plant.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide leadership and technical expertise in controls and electronic circuitry to achieve safety, quality, and productivity targets.
  • Lead or support maintenance teams in troubleshooting elusive problems resulting in downtime or quality issues.
  • Identify and correct causes of chronic equipment failures or issues.
  • Manage control of machine software, firmware, and user access security.
  • Propose, evaluate risk, and implement PLC program and other software/firmware or hardware changes needed to improve safety, yield, and productivity.
  • Troubleshoot and optimize performance of Cognex vision inspection systems.
  • Define equipment maintenance/preventative maintenance requirements and procedures.
  • Identify root-causes of equipment failures, develop, and implement corrective actions.
  • Develop troubleshooting and repair skills of Controls and Automation Technicians.
  • Develop User Requirement Specifications for new equipment or equipment updates.
  • Work with Automation and Validation Engineers to develop test scripts to validate software/firmware updates.
  • Support commissioning and validation of new equipment and/or implementation and testing of changes to existing equipment.
Requirements
  • Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
  • 7+ years of experience in high volume industrial or manufacturing environment.
  • Proficiency in programming and troubleshooting Allen Bradley Control Logics PLCs and Human Machine Interface (HMI / GUI).
  • Proficient user of RSLOGIX5000, Logix Designer, Studio 5000, Factory Talk SE, Ignition, and Cognex.
  • General understanding of factory LAN/WAN ethernet networks and ability to setup devices with IP addresses or nodes.
  • Experience setting up/tuning and troubleshooting Allen Bradley Power-Flex variable frequency drives and Kinetix multi-axis servo drives.
  • Field bus Networks (ProfiNet, DeviceNet, Ethernet/IP, Safety rated field bus networks).
  • Serial communication (RS-232, RS-422, RS-485, ProfiBus, Modbus RTU, Data Highway) between PLCs, instruments, and microcontrollers.
  • Ethernet communications between machine PLCs and embedded data collection systems.
  • Experience programming/troubleshooting Siemens PLC, Step7, preferred.
  • Experience working in a highly regulated manufacturing Industry (Medical, Automotive, Aerospace) preferred.
What We Offer
  • Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision.
  • Tuition Reimbursement.
  • Employee discounts at local retailers.

We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on age, race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, pregnancy status, or any other status protected by law.

We're happy to provide reasonable accommodations to those with a disability for assistance in the application process.



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