Senior Controls Engineer - Onsite (Finance)
Amsted Rail is the world's leading manufacturer of undercarriage and end of car rail components for heavy haul freight railcars and locomotives. Our company focus for more than a century has been on providing the most innovative products and integrated systems to meet the needs of the global heavy haul freight rail industry. For more than a century, Griffin® has been the proven leader in railroad wheel quality, design and service. We have five wheel plants – four in the US and one in Canada.
Amsted Rail is an industry leader that can offer more than a chance to succeed. This is where you can thrive. Our environment is energetic, our people are motivated and our career paths can take you where you want to go. We pride ourselves on being the market leader as well as having a management philosophy that promotes a culture of dignity and respect for all our employees.
The Automation Center is founded to drive innovation and transformations for Amsted Rail Wheel Operations. Our project management team is the hub that facilitates application of best-in-class methodologies, research, support, and training to enable change initiatives for leadership within operations and across the company. We are currently recruiting for a Sr Controls Engineer that will specialize in vision systems to assist in the implementation of automation systems into our facilities.
What you will do:
- Provide intermediate level system analysis, design, development, and implementation of applications and databases for vision system data collection and machine learning.
- Write programs, develops code, tests artifacts, and produces reports. Experience with C# or Python a benefit.
- Ability to learn and integrate Allen Bradley Control Logix software and functionality for industrial control system applications.
- Translate technical specifications into code for complex robotic automation solutions.
- Migrate code into the development, test, and production environments on schedule.
- Proven history of ability to integrates third party software such as Cognex Easybuilder, Cognex VisionPro, Keyence laser and Keyence traditional Vision tools. Matrox DA (Design Assistance), Matrox template programming.
- Facilitate training of plant personnel on instrumentation set up and testing to include operation of the HMI and SCADA equipment.
- Ability to develop applications for Model Inspection, 1D/2D Barcodes, OCR/OCV, Measurement, Robot Guidance.
- Provide follow up production support during machine start-ups.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or Controls Engineering with equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience commissioning and troubleshooting machine/ process controls,
- MS Office proficiency
- Must be able to work alone and/or within a team.
- Must be able to engage with customer (operating facilities) in a professional manner.
- Software: Cognex, Keyence, Allied Vision, Basler, IFM for programing sensors, Matrox, Automated Imaging Association, Machine Vision Lights
- Demonstrated knowledge of SQL and or integration with HTTP applications or interfaces
