Your Opportunity as the Senior Controls Engineer
The Senior Controls Engineer will provide active support with regard to power and control systems, equipment specification and maintenance, proper operation, technician development, troubleshooting and repair to achieve or exceed reliability targets within the plant or a specific department. This role has responsibility for systems optimization, reliability, continuous improvement, compliance, personnel safety and technician skill development related to plant electrical power and process control systems.
Location: 7351 Old Tuscaloosa Hwy, McCalla, AL (Uncrustables Manufacturing Facility)
Work Arrangements: 100% on-site, Day Shift – Flexibility required. Willingness to work off shift (including nights, weekends, and/or holidays) and flow to the work as needed
In this Role You Will:
- Serve as an administrator and troubleshooter for plant power and control systems and is a key member of plant technical team
- Works with the site Technical Manager and Plant Engineer to build and maintain sustainable processes, systems, and machine control onboarding and ongoing development systems
- Knows, communicates, and ensures technician compliance to local and national regulator codes; Is also responsible for ensuring equipment and safe practice compliance in their area of responsibility
- Responsible for validation of the operating data from PLC into Proficy or other MES systems; Support plant PEs in conditioning PLC data to accommodate effective data analysis including application development
- Supports the validity and ongoing system for maintaining the site sustainability metering equipment (power monitors and usage flow meters); Supports using the power monitoring data and developing plans to reduce overall consumption and costs
- Contributes in the design and implementation of machine control and process automation applications, such as control strategies, HMI design, MES applications and KPI development
- Create system map layouts, sequence of operations, drawing packages, PLC logic, and HMI screens
- Works with Controls Engineering Manager, department management and technicians to identify losses, and develop plans and strategies to eliminate them, in the areas of safety, quality, reliability and cost
- Supports parts or whole Key Elements for systems related to power and control system
- Works closely with engineering and operations leaders on selection and installation/start-up of new equipment; Becomes the controls systems technical expert on new equipment and ensures the training of others on control systems.
- Provides power and controls engineering support on capital initiatives in their area of responsibility
- Learns and applies advance control, simulation and process modeling technologies to analyze and improve overall process and packaging operations
What We are Looking For:
Minimum Requirements:
- Associate's degree or higher is required
- 4 years of relevant controls experience
- 5 years of manufacturing experience
- Controls system experience required, such as Allen Bradley or Siemens.
- Effective presentation, verbal, and written communication skills
Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:
- Bachelor's Degree preferred
- Mechanical and electrical experience in food manufacturing is preferred
- Experience leading and influencing others is preferred
- Experience integrating new technologies
- Experience leading the installation of equipment in a manufacturing environment
- Demonstrated results in manufacturing maintenance utilizing maintenance systems
- Experience with plant systems software (Proficy, Project Management, eAM, etc.)
Work Environment
This job operates in a manufacturing environment. The noise level in the work environment and manufacturing sites can be loud.
Physical Demands:
- Regularly required to talk and hear.
- Frequently required to stand; walk; use hands and fingers to handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
- Occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
- Able to lift objects up to 50 pounds frequently.
- May push and pull heavy objects.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
The Right Place for You
We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs, and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.
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We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, age, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status.
Skills Required
- Associate's degree or higher
- Four years of relevant controls experience
- Five years of manufacturing experience
- Controls system experience, such as Allen Bradley or Siemens
- Effective presentation, verbal, and written communication skills
- Bachelor's degree
- Mechanical and electrical experience in food manufacturing
- Experience leading and influencing others
- Experience integrating new technologies
- Experience leading equipment installation in a manufacturing environment
- Demonstrated results in manufacturing maintenance using maintenance systems
- Experience with plant systems software, including Proficy, project management systems, or eAM
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What We Do
Each generation of consumers leaves their mark on culture by establishing new expectations for food and the companies that make it. At The J.M. Smucker Co., it is our privilege to be at the heart of this dynamic with a portfolio that appeals to each generation of people and pets with products found in 90 percent of U.S. homes and countless restaurants. This includes a mix of iconic brands consumers have always loved such as Folgers®, Jif® and Milk-Bone® and new favorites like Café Bustelo®, Smucker’s® Uncrustables® and Rachael Ray® Nutrish®. By continuing to immerse ourselves in consumer and pet parent preferences for food, how it’s purchased and how the companies that make it should operate, we will maintain the important role we play in their lives. This will allow us to continue growing our business and the positive impact we have on all of those who count on us.
