Controls Engineer

Position Summary

The Controls Engineer will be responsible for developing, improving, and maintaining manufacturing processes. This role will require knowledge of PLC based line controls.

Responsibilities

• Implement, monitor and control processes, procedures, practices, projects and plant layouts to insure implementation within the group and branch guidelines and specifications.
• Lead the development of processes that yields parts conforming to specifications in order to meet the requirement of quality, cost and delivery time.
• Lead new product launch equipment and processes at each milestone through production, providing the manufacturing and engineering inputs for development of new process, parts, equipment and tooling.
• Lead the equipment design and approval process. Define the equipment specification, process & maintenance documents.
• Lead lean & continuous improvement (e.g. cycle time times, scrap, quality, material cost reduction, regrind implementation, etc.) activities.
• Lead involvement in global coordination to share and define standards. Identify and investigate potential new tooling concepts and processes.
• Lead design reviews with all program component activities to ensure compatibility with engineering and design requirements.
• Lead and follow progress of assigned teams in the implementation of the 5 Axes (Lean Manufacturing techniques including Hoshin, PSG,5s)
• Participate in project teams during the development of new programs.
• Lead team members involved in and provides input regarding ergonomic issues.
• Work with production managers to meet and implement all Valeo Production Systems methodologies and tools over the production floor.
• Lead implementation of safety policies and procedures.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Engineering (Associate Degree can be considered with relevant work experience)
• 5+ years in a production environment
• 5+ years of PLC based Controls Engineering experience (Siemens PLC experience is preferred)
• 3+ years in Automotive industry
• 3+ years of Robotics experience (programming experience preferred)