Controls Engineer - CI – The Manufacturing Career HUB

The Controls Engineer applies engineering knowledge to designs and assists with the development of major engineering projects.

MPI drives a LEAN culture, focused on customer service excellence.  We do this by working to simplify our processes and driving out waste or non-value-added activities.  We value participation at all levels and invest in our employees’ training to achieve continuous development of our dynamic team.

Salary Description: $90,000 - $120,000/yr. 

Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Generous PTO, Tuition Reimbursement

• Supports MPI lean culture and initiatives by attending and participating in daily lean meetings while supporting efforts to make continuous improvements throughout MPI.
• Electrical Design: Responsible for creating electrical schematics, plc program logic, and electrical enclosure designs within the constraints determined by the given project, time, cost, performance.
• Project Supervision: Completes an electrical design for a project with supervision. These responsibilities include the following:

• Electrical enclosure design and detail.
• Electrical schematic design.
• Hands-on PLC and HMI programming.
• Hands-on Robotic programming desirable.
• Knowledge of vision systems is desirable.
• Project documentation, including bill of materials.
• Project checking.
• Manufacturing assembly support.
• Estimating engineering hours required for a project.

• Checking / Verification: Responsible for ensuring that any of his or her own work is inspected and approved by a qualified engineer or engineering manager.
• Functional Testing: Responsible for testing and verification of new or modified programs. Assist the functional testing of the equipment and support customers during FAT.
• Documentation: Responsible for the proper documentation of his or her work, including ECR’s, machine manuals, check lists, and others.
• Scheduling & Reports: Responsible for reporting the status of his or her project in accordance with Epicor Projects (MPI’s information system) and the engineering production schedule at each weekly meeting. If a problem occurs that requires immediate attention, it is the engineer’s responsibility to report to the department manager at that time.
• Comm/SAT: When required capable to travel to customers site to support installation, commissioning, and Site acceptance testing.
• Other duties as assigned by management.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, plus 4 to 5 years of related experience.
• Sound understanding of electrical design, schematics, and electrical codes in regard to machine tool design.
• Sound computer skills, Cad for Schematics is desirable.
• Experience with machine tool equipment, electrical design.
• Experienced PLC programmer. Omron, AB, and Siemens are desirable.
• Experienced HMI programmer. Indusoft is desirable.
• Experienced Robotic’s programmer. ABB and Fanuc are desirable.
• Proficient using Microsoft Office, Solidworks, and MPI information system “Epicor.”
• Software knowledge; Excel, Solidworks, and Microsoft Windows.
• Flexible, able to react to change.
• Sound communication skills, verbal, written and the ability to listen effectively.
• Great organizational skills.

https://www.mpi-systems.com/

MPI is headquartered in Poughkeepsie, NY, and is proud to be able to stamp all of their equipment with the “Proudly Made in America” moniker. Within its impressive facility, there exists a fully functioning laboratory, showroom and production facility to demonstrate our state-of-the-art wax room equipment. We also boast a full training center to provide ongoing training classes for process engineers, machine operators and maintenance staff, available to our entire global customer base. MPI also offers impressive pattern injection and pattern assembly capabilities. Pattern production is mutually beneficial because it gives the customer a chance to reap the benefits of the process without the initial commitment to purchase. It also allows MPI to clearly see opportunities for enhanced equipment design.