Controls Engineer
HIKINEX
- Horse Cave, KY
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Ensuring compliance with OSHA standards and conducting daily inspections of required PPE.
- Creating a safe working environment in line with company and regulatory policies.
- Ensuring adherence to cleanliness, food, and equipment safety standards.
- Maintaining compliance with quality standards in the production-packaging area and supporting quality and food safety programs.
- Facilitating effective communication with team members, management, customers, and vendors.
- Collaborating respectfully with team members to achieve safety, quality, and production goals.
- Providing training, direction, development, evaluation, coaching, and leadership to subordinates.
- Actively participating in departmental meetings, special projects, and task resolutions.
- Promoting integrity, respect, accountability, continuous improvement, and positive interactions.
- Supporting daily machine uptime and plant operations, troubleshooting electrical and electronic issues.
- Designing electrical control systems and leading machine improvement projects.
- Installing, maintaining, and modifying PLC systems, AC/DC drives, and motors.
- Providing technical support and software changes for PLC-based equipment.
- Assisting maintenance supervisors with machinery issues and startup of new technology.
- Contributing to cost savings ideas and efforts and analyzing new designs.
- Demonstrating regular attendance and performing assigned tasks.
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
- Experience with Allen Bradley, SIEMENS, operator interface devices, and AC/DC drives.
- Proficiency in device net, Ethernet, Profibus Network Communication, and electrical troubleshooting.
- Project management experience and familiarity with Allen Bradley Panel View programs.
- Competency in relay logic, ladder logic, pneumatic logic, and hydraulic logic.
- Industrial experience with electrical control systems and knowledge of Wonder Ware.
- Ability to write advanced control system programming and experience with SQL Server and batch management systems.
- Mechanical knowledge of process machinery and flexibility to support various shifts.
- Strong teamwork, leadership, and self-motivation skills.