Controls Engineer at Meritor, Inc. in Morganton, North Carolina

Job Description:

This position will assist in driving and supporting the productivity, safety, quality, and cost improvement goals established for its assigned areas. Must serve as a catalyst to stimulate manufacturing-related innovations designed to continually improve our competitive position as a low cost/high end supplier.

Job Responsibilities:
• Assist the champion of new products and equipment entering the facility in terms of identifying controls, tooling, and automation required to produce the product support production launch.

• Manage the procurement of major and minor pieces of capital equipment for assigned projects.

• Provide ownership for specifying controls on all new and upgraded equipment, automation and processes. Develop controls standards for new processes and/or equipment

• Provide technical support to maintenance techs, engineers, team leaders and supervisors.

• Assist Project Managers and industrialization with project implementation

• Bachelors degree required.

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a controls engineer or controls technician required.

• Experience programming with Allen Bradley PLCs, and HMIs is required.

• Experience with Allen Bradley PLC (Legacy and New technology) required

• Extensive experience with computer software preferred – Excel, Access, AutoCAD, other CAD experience preferred.

• Experience in troubleshooting CNC’s and robotics preferred.

• Experience retrofitting older equipment with newer controls / technology or preferred

• Knowledge of complex automation with PLC background, special machines, hydraulics, pneumatics and robotics programming interface preferred

• Blueprint reading ability

• Good verbal and written communication skills

• Must possess strong ability of troubleshooting electro-mechanical systems (motors, drives, PLC’s and other control and mechanical systems)

• PC integrations with Java based script