Tesla is seeking a highly motivated Manufacturing Controls Dev Engineer who will focus on creating equipment for manufacturing and its sub-assemblies. This position concentrates specifically on controls of PLC driven robotic cells, servo actuated mechatronic systems and high-volume automated process equipment. Siemens TIA ("Totally Integrated Automated Portal" OR TIA Portal) experience is highly desired for this role.

The Candidate will work to design software for new assembly lines and single operating machines. Once these machines and assembly lines are setup on site, the Candidate will be working to commission and ramp up the equipment until handover to the local teams is completed. This includes bringing the equipment up to and above goals for cycle time, availability, and yield.

• Develop company level, factory level and line/machine level controls standards and specification for application by internal equipment development team and external partners
• Create through to full deployment to production factory and line level controls architecture
• Create detailed utility layouts for entire assembly lines and interface with facilities teams for implementation
• Participate in initial equipment conceptual development and carefully balance product specifications, process requirements, layout complexity, cost, and lead-time limits
• Lay out new industrial electrical control panels which are NFPA79/NEC/UL508A compliant, and create electrical, pneumatic and fluid schematics
• Architect, write, and debug PLC ladder logic with an emphasis on generating code that is organized, structured, documented, maintainable and reusable. PLC code will interact with subsystems such as conveyors, robots, Manufacturing Execution System (MES), LabView, machine vision, and 3rd party equipment

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, 5 years of experience as a hands-on Controls Engineer or Robotics Engineer working on automation and/or electromechanical systems, or equivalent
• Proficiency with process integration and electromechanical / mechatronic systems
• Advanced proficiency programming industrial equipment from scratch and modifying structure text PLCs preferably Siemens controllers, Safety PLCs (Siemens, Beckhoff , Allen-Bradley), Human Machine Interface (HMI / GUI - Beckhoff View, WinCC, Ignition), Field bus Networks (EtherCAT, Profinet, Ethernet), Serial communication (RS-232) between PLCs and instruments, Ethernet communications between machine PLCs and database systems
• Proficiency selecting appropriate circuit protectors, wire and cable, sensors, safety hardware, PLC hardware, remote I/O, VFD and servo systems
• Proficiency creating detailed electrical and fluid schematics in CAD (AutoCAD Electrical preferred)
• Experience with Cartesian and Articulated robots is expected (Fanuc, Kuka, ABB, Epson)
• Experience with Vision systems is a plus (Cognex, Keyence, Fanuc)

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