Controls Electrician

HireDirect is currently seeking a Controls Electrician to join a stable growing company with a positive work environment in Ponca City OK. As a Controls Electrician you will provide leadership within the engineering department in the areas of electrical mechanical and control systems design and documentation. You will be involved with implementing process improvements planning and installation and be a resource to all floor engineers and operation personnel.

Important Details

• Direct Hire Opportunity/Affordable benefit package
• Salary $60000 to $62000 with a yearly bonus incentive up to 13%
• Relocation Assistance is offered.
• Work Schedule: 1^st shift 5 days on 2 days off with flexibility to be on call.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design and install PLC control systems and operator interfaces on major projects as well as smaller scale projects. Design install and maintain industrial network backbone and data collection systems and maintain backups of all system software.
• Assist engineering department in maintaining standards on: PLC programming HMI layouts electrical drawings communications data collection and equipment standardization.
• Coordinate trouble response efforts and PM tasks in a timely manner with fellow engineers to maximize uptime. Promote and utilize the Enterprise Asset Management System by following all Infor EAM procedures and expanding individual use of the system.
• Promote a safe and clean working environment by following clean as you go procedures. Ensure that all safety procedures and guidelines are properly adhered to. Inform appropriate management and floor engineers of potential electrical/mechanical problems and inherent dangers involved. Attending and participating in all safety staff etc. meetings and activities.

Qualifications:

• Extensive handson PLC programming experience including new design and installation startups must thoroughly understand and have experience interfacing PLCs with: AC/DC and servo drives instrumentation sensors bar code readers and HMI.
• Experience programming and replacing various operator interfaces including: PanelView PanelView and Red Lion
• Thorough understanding of drive parameters and how to apply them on the plant floor: Entering basic motor nameplate data 2wire/3wire control dynamic braking DC Hold drive tuning scaling analog inputs and outputs.
• Ability to develop HMI applications beyond simple buttons and data entry boxes. Examples of this include but are not limited to utilizing parameter files and a single screen to operate duplicate devices macros VBA and various proprietary scripting.
• Extensive background with Controls networking: Device Net Ethernet/IP SerialoverEthernet Hart DH RS232 DH485
• Ability to troubleshoot multiPLC messaging between different classes of PLCs: SLC 5/0345 PLC5/40 ControlLogix
• Through knowledge of communications software: RSlinx Classic RSlinx Enterprise RSNetWorx products and OPC servers
• Good background with various Microsoft OS: XPServer Win 7 and Virtual server environments.
• Basic understanding of DCOM and computer security
• Ability to provide network troubleshooting using: BOOTP ARP PING ROUTE IPCONFIG DHCP and SNMP
• Good understanding of Ethernet managed switches in a controls environment and basic understanding of routers
• Ability to support SCADA data collection systems used to collect plant floor information.
• Ability to write simple SQL queries against a database within Excel.
• Fanuc Robot teaches pendant programming unit load programming and the ability to interface Fanuc robots with PLC.
• Working knowledge of implementing and tuning PID loops to control industrial processes.

Education/Experience:

• Minimum of an associate degree or a minimum of 6 years of experience programming and installing equipment. (not including routine machine troubleshooting)
• Training with PLC HMI Visual Basic Fanuc etc.
• Strong background in industrial communication with the ability to design install and troubleshoot Ethernet/IP Device Net DH Hart RS232 and DH485 etc.
• Ability to install operating systems and Industrial applications on Microsoft Windows XPserver Windows 7
• AutoCAD Mechanical Electrical and Inventor drawing skills.
• Experience with Client/Server architecture VMs SQL databases RSSQL and Ignition by Inductive Automation is a plus.

Certificates License Registrations

• RS Logic 500 and RS Logix 5000 Programming
• Fanuc Handling Tool or Pallet Tool
• RS view Supervisory Edition