Controls Engineer Working Lead

Job Summary:

This role ensures seamless execution of daily business, development of personnel, application of tools

and processes, and compliance to company policies. The lead must work cooperatively with business

partners to drive key business metrics.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The following responsibilities will be carried out directly by the working lead or through their team

individuals in their defined areas:

Technical

• Design, develop, and document control and HMI software for blow molding equipment, using advanced concepts and design practices.
• Leads and participates in control system development for new product offerings and control retrofits.
• Provides startup & debug assistance.
• Guide technical activities and develop technical skills within the engineering discipline to ensure operational and customer needs are satisfied
• Analyze customer specifications to ensure clarity of requirements and end product application
• Maintain new and existing standard equipment designs for future use in similar types of machinery
• Ensure technical processes, procedures, and best practices are defined, documented, and followed in daily activities associated within engineering discipline
• Ensure compliance to specifications and internal design processes
• Ensure new or less experienced staff receive appropriate technical training and mentoring
• Communicate and document “institutional (tribal) knowledge” to ensure this beneficial information is shared and available to others as the company continues to grow
• Tracking of new technological developments and subsequent recommendations in new designs and retrofits
• Provides technical expertise to manufacturing personnel during build and start-up to diagnose and correct software issues. This may occasionally require time on the assembly floor to provide hands-on assistance

Financial

• Ensure realistic schedules are developed and successfully executed to approved timelines, scope, and quality constraints
• Provide estimates for timing and cost in support of development activities and other project related initiatives
• Identify, track, and drive continuous improvement with KPI’s for the department

Personnel

• Directs software engineers in the design and startup of controls projects, including PLC programs, HMI programs, Motion programs and Network communications and may personally perform such duties
• Assist in coaching employees and provide feedback with respect to outlined goals and procedures
• Assist in conducting Performance Reviews
• Assist in directing development, and training of personnel

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or

responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may

change at any time with or without notice