Senior Electrical Engineer - Manufacturing
Intertape Polymer Group (IPG)
Marysville
Position Purpose: Continually improve process, facility and human assets in a growing manufacturing operation. In addition to project assignments, the Electrical Engineer is on call to provide Level I troubleshooting support and knowledge transfer to the Maintenance and Production departments.
Principle Accountabilities
- Support and promote safe working practices within the facility.
- Assure compliance with applicable regulatory requirements and responsible for equipment safety
- Maintain PLC Logic, HMI programs, and SCADA systems and documentation.
- Continuously educate and train Maintenance personal on electrical systems.
- Program new PLC ladder logic and supervisory control systems.
- Provide Electrical Engineering support on new equipment installations.
- Write specifications, review contracts, manage installations, develop electrical design drawings when needed, and provide start-up assistance
- Provides direction, coaching and training to Jr. Electrical Engineer(s).
- Support the continuous improvement activities of the organization including to: participate in plant-wide improvement and team building activities and lead teams in area of expertise
- Review and approve proposals for new machinery.
- Estimate proposed projects and provide reports to management.
- Coordinate work of Maintenance Electricians and outside contractors.
- Other tasks as assigned by Engineering Manager.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience in a manufacturing environment with experience leading electrical projects for both process and facilities and electrical design
- National Electric Code (NEC) training and working knowledge.
- Must possess the ability to develop people (training, coaching, mentoring conflict resolution, decision-making and problem-solving).
- Mechanical/Electrical aptitude with the ability to grasp complex tasks easily.
- Highly developed oral and written communication skills
- High level of interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with others.
- Formal electrical safety training
- Allen Bradley PLC programming (SLC, PLC-5, Logix 5000, MicroLogix, Panel View)
- HMI programming experience, Panel View, RS View, Intellution (iFIX) Enterprise level SCADA distributed control and data collection systems - Cimplicity, GE Proficy Suite , Wonderware
- Some CAD experience
- AC/DC and servo drive experience
- Some robot programming experience
- Experience setting up industrial communication networks (Ethernet IP, DH+, DeviceNet)
- MS Office
