Electrical Controls Engineer

ESPO Corporation | Elk Grove Village | www.resume-library.com |
Title: Controls Engineer
Location: Elk Grove Village , IL
Duration: Permanent Hire (can work remote when not at client sites)
Travel: 50%

Job Description:

Our client needs an Electrical Controls Engineer with 3 - 5 years of experience. An individual that is passionate about industrial machine safety. As a Controls Engineer / Safety Services Engineer you will provide industrial functional safety related controls advice and industry best practices to our customers.
heavily depends on an understanding of machine controls and the related potential hazardous energy sources.

An entry level safety position, if you have a passion for safety, a willingness to learn and love the idea of helping people return home with the same number of fingers and toes they showed up to work with, then this position will be a great fit for you.
As a Functional Safety Engineer, your primary responsibility will consist of corresponding professionally with our customers and assisting them with properly identifying and quantifying risks related to their industrial machinery or application.
You will help develop safety solutions engineered to reduce their risks to an acceptable level of safety. You may also verify and validate architecture designs to keep personnel safe when working on or near the industrial environment.

Functional Safety Engineers provide guidance to a vast array of industries, including automotive, food and beverage, personal care, machine tools, tissue and paper, consumer goods, packaging, metal forming, rides and entertainment, AGVs, robotics, commodity chemicals and many more.

Expectations and Responsibility:

Collect knowledge and data around customer's industrial machine process by meeting on-site (face to face), or virtually with our customers via virtual conference software.

Assist our customers with setting the proper priorities for their safety upgrade programs.

Assist in the Design and support senior staff with discussions relating to the following safety solutions with our customers focusing primarily on recognized industry standards or customer specific requirements:

o Lockout Tagout audits and procedures

o Safety priority inspections

o Risk assessments

o Safety requirements specifications

o Safety architecture design and engineering

o Safety function verification

o Stop time measurement / safe distance calculation

o Safety system validation

o Safety training

Meet project milestones and recognize the need to escalate to your manager as necessary to complete projects on time and within budget.

Follow delivery process, procedures, methodologies, and utilize the proper tools to complete projects on time and to meet customer deliverable expectations.

Leverage Sr. staff to expand knowledge and project capabilities.

Work closely with Sales team to provide customer support as needed.

Assist in identifying and qualifying safety projects by collecting necessary data needed to accurately identify a project's scope and budget.

Ability to work within a team environment and capable of being mentored by senior staff members.

Be willing to travel up to 50%. Primarily Monday through Friday; however, an occasional weekend travel may occur.

Maintain a positive mindset and attitude when working through customer's high stress commercial or political concerns.

Required Education and/or Experience:

Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent industrial controls / safety experience (3-5 years).

Minimum 6 months of industrial controls or machine safety experience.

Aware of OSHA and industrial safety standards (ISO, ANSI, etc.)

Aware of the safety project's lifecycle.

Strong electric circuit design with AutoCAD Electrical

Preferred Qualifications:

TUV FS Tech or equivalent certification (TUV, ANSI, Etc.)

Knowledge of ISO 13849, ISO 12100, ANSI B11, ANSI Z244.1, NFPA 79, NFPA 70E, OSHA CFR 1910.147 and OSHA CFR 1910 subpart O.

Knowledgeable in industrial controls, design, troubleshooting, etc.

Knowledgeable in industrial safety (safety priority inspection, risk assessment documentation, system architecture design, verification, and validation).

Knowledge of Siemens, Rockwell, and Pilz safety hardware and software.

BENEFITS INCLUDE:

Competitive pay

Health insurance

Medical and dependent care flexible spending account

10 paid holidays annually

PTO (Paid time off)

401K (Available after 90 days)

ESPO Corporation

Willowbrook, IL 60527

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and value the benefits of diversity in our work force . All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity and expression, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status or any other attribute or protected characteristic by law.
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