Job Description

Our client is seeking a Controls Hardware Designer to join their growing team. Our client's engineers work in a variety of environments and locations. The role requires strong technical knowledge, sound experience, and people-skills, to effectively solve issues as they arise.

• Create electrical drawing packages for different types of equipment/machinery both from scratch and using customer standards and templates. Experience designing control panel layouts is a must.
• Responsible for the completeness of hardware design before build, ensuring reduced debug project phases.

• Ability to perform calculations for load, heat, and power including transfer loads for transformers
• Familiar with ARC Flash calculations
• Understand and strictly follow the standards and specifications for the design of controls hardware of the end user.
• Must be able to read and understand electrical drawings, pneumatic drawings, and mechanical sequence of operations and use them to design the electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic prints as required.
• Understand safety concepts and safety requirements to ensure proper implementation during the design phase. (NFPA79, UL508)
  Provide accurate Bill of Materials as part of the design, adhering to customer specifications or documenting deviation acceptance from the customer as required.
  Support manufacturing during the startup and integration phases.
  Generate machine lockout placards based on end-user specifications and best practices.
  Aid the software designer in understanding hardware architecture and critical designs.

Requirements

• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in a technical/engineering discipline is preferred, but equivalent experience will be considered
• 7+ years of relevant controls hardware design experience
• Strong experience designing control panel layouts with either AutoCAD Electrical or Eplan is a must. Preference is to have experience in both
• Prior experience leading small teams is a plus
• PLC Programming experience is helpful but not required

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