ELECTRICAL CONTROLS SPECIALIST

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ELECTRICAL CONTROLS SPECIALIST
Job Summary
Oversee the plants automated control systems. Primary responsibility will maintain and troubleshoot the sites Ignition controls system and assist maintenance in electrical troubleshooting.
Overall Goal of Position:
Keep the plant flow/efficiency running smoothly by ensuring all needed equipment is available and maintained.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
• Personnel/General Operations
◦ Perform all duties safely, follow all safety guidelines, and actively participate in site safety programs
◦ Relevant training in Arc Flash NFPA 70E training and ability to train others in the requirements.
◦ Confers with team members in other departments to provide technical information
◦ Participates in meetings, seminars, and training sessions to stay apprised of new developments in field
• Engineering/Planning
◦ Develops long range plans, conceptual designs, and capital outlay requirements and documentation for electrical equipment.
◦ Formulates and coordinates program specifications, requirements for proposals and contracts, and associated documents
◦ Inspects construction and installation progress to ensure conformance to established specifications
◦ Troubleshooting and determining root cause of faulted process and packaging instrumentation and electrical devices, including programmable logic controllers (PLC’s) and associated I/O modules.
◦ Ability to understand and troubleshoot PLC, human machine interface (HMI), batching systems, and data collection system software
◦ Performing software modifications to existing packaging machinery and process system PLC’s, HMI’s, Batching and Data Collection systems.

Performance Standards (the criteria that will be used to evaluate performance)
• General Operations
◦ Plant OEE
◦ Cost savings
◦ Training/development up-to-date
▪ Individually and site.
• Engineering/Planning
◦ Project/AFE on time, as planned and within budget
◦ Coordinate Electrical contractors on projects and day to day activities.
• Culture Building
◦ Organizational Health KPIs
◦ KPIs for OurRecipe
• What you do and how you act
◦ Leadership and contribution to overall success of SBI
◦ Personal Effectiveness-meeting timelines and productivity requirements (quantity and quality of work)
◦ Personal interaction, communication and teamwork with internal and external parties, consistent with OurRecipe@SauerBrands
What We Are Looking For: Characteristics, skills, experience, education and performance history needed for success in the position:
• Personal Characteristics
◦ Professional Demeanor
◦ Entrepreneurial drive and the desire to “build a business”.
◦ Passionate, outgoing, energetic, and results oriented personality
◦ Overall confidence in one abilities and comfortable communicating the facts
◦ Smart, creative and inquisitive
◦ Character and Integrity-Does the right thing even when no one is looking
◦ Disciplined approach, and accountable for KPIs
◦ No excuses mindset. Accountable and reliable
◦ Dependable team player with positive attitude
◦ Determination/Grit-Pursuit of Excellence
◦ Passion for organization, and attention to details
◦ Personal values that mesh with SBI values
◦ Willingness to work outside their normal hours in an emergency and planned downtime for the plant.
• Performance History
◦ Documented history of making improvements in assigned work area/responsibilities
◦ Stellar references based on contributions and performance
• Demonstrated proficiency in the following Areas
◦ Experience in programming Allen-Bradley Control Logix, SLC 5’s, and PLC 5’s programmable logic controllers utilizing Rockwell’s RSLogix 5000, RSLogix 500 and RSLogix 5 software, including advance program features such as PID loops, message instructions, produce-consume tags, motion instructions, file instructions, compare instructions, and Phase Manager interface.
◦ Programming Knowledge a must for Wonderware components and trouble shooting.
◦ Understand operating principles of AC and DC motors, including variable frequency drives (VFD’s), inverters, servo motors. Ability to configure VFD’s and servo motor controllers using appropriate software. Prefer experience/knowledge of Allen Bradley Power Flex 4, 40, 70, 700, 755 and 525 variable frequency drives.
◦ Understand and troubleshoot process instrumentation such as pressure, mass flow, temperature and conductivity sensors and transmitters
◦ Experience in installing, troubleshooting and maintaining communication networks such as DeviceNet, ASI, Fieldbus, Modbus, Hart, and Ethernet.
◦ Experience in installing, troubleshooting and maintaining hardware associated with 480VAC Voltage switchgear, transformers, motors and motor control centers (MCC’s).
◦ Advanced skills in MS Outlook, Word, Excel, CAD/CAM systems and PowerPoint
◦ Ability to work and thrive under time constraints and juggle/prioritize responsibilities.
◦ Analysis & Problem Solving - the ability to collect, assess and interpret relevant information and make sound decisions.
◦ Highly organized
◦ Good written and verbal communication skills.
◦ Team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible.
• Education & Experience:
◦ Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or mechanical engineering, or other relevant discipline required.
◦ 3 to 5 years of relevant experience

Sauer Brands, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, gender, disability, national origin, veteran, other protected status or any other basis