What are the responsibilities and job description for the Electrical Controls Engineer position at Flores Automation?
Reports To
Operations Manager
Purpose
Planning, designing, programming, testing, and starting automated systems. Ensuring systems meet high-quality standards, internal and external specifications, and established budgetary estimates.
Duties and Responsibilities
Customer Experience Lead
- Provide communications and collaborations with customers as requested.
- Communicate customer concerns to project managers that impact the success of the project.
Resource Planning
- Assist project managers in the procurement of required third party resources.
Time Management
- Take full responsibility for meeting all established deadlines.
- Communicate potential deviations with project managers.
Budget Management
- Maintain assigned budget to include labor, materials, and third-party services.
- Identify scope changes and submit change order requests to project managers as needed.
- Seek opportunities for additional project revenue and submit to project managers.
Quality Assurance
- Ensure products and services meet or exceed the company’s high standards.
- Communicate concerns and deviations to standards with project managers.
Risk Management
- Communicate issues that jeopardize the project.
- Identify and communicate risks early and assist in resolution as needed.
Reporting
- Maintain and report status, forecast, issue resolution, and deviations to project managers.
- Complete daily timesheets documenting project hours and other activities.
Sales Support
- Assist sales in the estimating and scope process as requested.
- Provide technical information as requested.
- Assist sales with on-site technical presentations as the subject matter expert as requested.
Technical Contribution
- Provide design, programming, testing, and startup duties as assigned.
- Contribute to product development, technical improvement processes, and innovation.
Performance Measurements
Performance will be measured by:
- Pay based on experience.
- Customer overall interaction experience.
- Meeting or improving required schedules and assigned estimates.
- Meeting or exceeding quality standards and specifications.
- Meeting or improving budgeted project estimates.
- Ability to contribute in cross functional environment.
- Continuously demonstrate and promote a culture of ownership thinking.
Direct Reports
No direct reports.
Qualifications
- Minimum 2 years of proven successful working experience in electrical controls engineering.
- 4-year technical degree in related field.
- Solid organizational skills to include attention to detail and multitasking.
- Minimum 2 years experience designing industrial control systems.
- Minimum 2 years PLC programming experience.
- Minimum 2 years AutoCAD experience.
- Minimum 1 year experience with robotics and vision systems.
- Knowledge of IEEE, NFPA, and relevant standards.
- Competent use of relevant software, including Microsoft Office, Gannt charts, and related tools.
Preferences
- A natural and determined desire to serve customers in a positive and professional manner.
- Thrives on the challenge of multitasking, engineering design, and innovation.
- Confident and persistent problem solver eager to learn.
- Strong team player.
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- 401(k) Profit Sharing with Company Match
- 8 Paid Holidays
- Bereavement Leave
- Sick Leave
- Flex-time Available
- Reimbursed Company Auto Mileage