Lasko Products, an industry leader in designing and manufacturing portable fans and heaters for over 100 years, is hiring for a Controls Engineer for our Franklin, TN manufacturing facility.

This will be a very hands-on role, spending a large part of the day working in the plant. The position requires the ability to write PLC programs, ability to troubleshoot equipment, and design from concept to completion on machine controls.
 
This role will report to the Plant Manager.

Essential Functions

• Troubleshoot equipment, recommend corrections, and provide solutions.
• Electrical and electronic control system design, fabrication, and troubleshooting, to support both current operations and new equipment builds
• Identify areas for automation improvements, or new automation, and then working with a mechanical designer to create, design, justify, fabricate, program, test, debug, install and commission your solution
• Support maintenance and operations with PLC and electronic issues when needed
• Monitor and support live-time manufacturing data acquisition systems, including creation of customer dashboards
• Create palletizer stack programs (via PLC) to support new products and requested customer changes to provide skid configurations
• Interface with corporate IT when projects require, and provide on-site assistance when needed
• Must be hands on and capable to running wiring, building control cabinets, HMI (Human Machine Interface) panels, light mechanical fabrication
• Knowledge of robotics and EOAT (END of Arm Tooling), including collaborative applications, is a plus.
• Travel to other sites minimal

Education and Experience

• Engineering degree or equivalent
• 5-10 years manufacturing environment
• 5-10 years of technical experience required
• Knowledge of electrical, PLC programming & industrial networks, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic and/or electronic equipment and systems required.
• OMROM expertise is a plus.

Competencies and Abilities

• Detail Oriented - Ability to pay attention to the minute details of a project or task.
• Energetic - Ability to work at a sustained pace and produce quality work.
• Organized - Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task.
• Problem Solving - Ability to find a solution for or to deal proactively with work-related problems.
• Reliability - The trait of being dependable and trustworthy.
• Safety Awareness - Ability to identify and correct conditions that affect employee safety.
• Self-Motivated - Ability to be internally inspired to perform a task to the best of one’s ability using own drive or initiative.
• Working Under Pressure - Ability to complete assigned tasks under stressful situations