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Reference number
2023-3767
Job opening category
Standard
Country
United States
Location site
Fives Intralogistics Corp. - Louisville
Job location
Job location
America/Caribbean, USA, Kentucky, Louisville, KY
City and Zip code
Louisville 40229
Job details
Job title
Senior Controls Software Engineer - Fives Intralogistics Corp. M/F
Job type
Permanent position
Job content
Position General Responsibilities:
a. Competently understand and work under the guidelines, policies, procedures, and instructions of the Quality System to achieve quality and customer satisfaction objectives.
b. Maintain a good, professional working relationship with all company personnel, vendors, subcontractors, and customers.
c. Competently work in a fast-paced, project-oriented, deadline-driven, and continuously- improving environment to meet company goals concerning schedule, technical accuracy, and budget.
d. Use engineering and design software and equipment to perform engineering tasks.
e. Willingness to work in both individual and group environments.
f. Willingness to immediately travel as required by air or automotive.
g. Willingness to travel to and work at remote locations throughout the year with 30% being an average yearly travel requirement.
h. Maintain technical expertise in controls systems hardware and software technology through training and other forms of continuing education (such as training courses and classes, technical journals and magazines, professional societies, site visits, etc.).
Position Specific Responsibilities:
a. Assist in preparing software project estimates.
b. Thoroughly review and understand the project scope along with the customer’s standards and as sold documents for a complete picture of the design required.
c. Review and select appropriate Fives and OEM equipment to satisfy project functional requirements.
d. Design electrical control systems for parcel sortation and transportation products or projects with engineering principles, company standards, customer contract requirements, and related specifications.
e. Work with engineering subcontractors to coordinate their activities and to ensure the subcontractor work is checked and the standards and quality are within Fives Intralogistics’ guidelines.
f. Program and prepare, PLC and HMI software files for the product or project segment deliverables.
g. Support Quality improvement initiatives.
h. Produce information such as sketches, redlines etc. to electrical AutoCAD technicians or electrical engineering Co-op’s for the preparation of drawings.
i. Drive the internal drawing resource schedules to align with project deliverable timelines.
j. Review design drawings for accuracy.
k. Experience with the parcel and postal automation industry is a huge plus.
l. Experience with item tracking on a moving conveyor belt is a huge plus.
m. Experience with item sortation is a huge plus.
The above is intended to describe the general content of and the requirements for the performance of this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements.
Education and Experiences
QUALIFICATIONS:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering (four-year college or university); and a minimum of five to six years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Demonstrated proficiency in MS Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Understanding and basic proficiency in AutoCAD.
• Understanding and basic proficiency in PLC, GDU and HMI programming.
• Understanding and basic proficiency in control system hardware design.
Language Skills
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents.
• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.
• Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format.
• Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.
Mathematical Skills
• Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations.
• Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.
Reasoning Ability
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Ability to solve problems using a systemic approach.
Applicant criteria
Job
Engineering