What are the responsibilities and job description for the Electrical Controls Engineer position at Steven Douglas Corp.?
At Steven Douglas Corp (SDC) we design and build custom, automated machines that are used in a wide variety of applications and industries. We work in a fast -paced, exciting, and highly technical environment where our team never designs the same machine twice and is often challenged with solving problems with no standard solution. We are continually investing in our people, processes, and technology to push automation boundaries and deliver innovative, robust machines.
Electrical Controls Engineers at SDC are collaborative, detail-oriented individuals that are responsible for developing and programming complete solutions for automated equipment according to customer and internal specifications. We are looking to add individuals with PLC, HMI, Robotics and Vision programming and machine design experience.
Why Join SDC?
- Innovative Machine Design: At SDC, your primary focus will be creating detailed, functional machine concepts that align with customer requirements.
- Collaborative Environment: Work closely with our sales, project management, and engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of design and execution.
- Family-Owned Culture: Experience a supportive and agile environment that values technical excellence and personal growth.
What You’ll Do:
- Design and develop innovative and advanced software and machine controls programs, including:
- Electrical and Control system design
- PLC programming
- Design/programming of Human Machine Interfaces (HMI)
- Robotic Programming
- Troubleshooting of electrical, PLC, and HMI systems
- Industrial Machine Vision Systems
- Evaluate and specify hardware and software components such as robots, grippers, load cells, motion controllers, sensors, vision systems and lasers to complete a variety of required tasks.
- Work quickly and diligently to troubleshot and solve machine programming challenges throughout the project lifecycle.
- Manage assigned projects to maintain on-time and on-budget machine deliveries.
- Assist Mechanical Engineering team with development and cross-over automation technologies, including robotics, pneumatics, servo motion systems and vision systems.
- Support machine building process from assembly, de-bug and acceptance testing and through potential on-site customer installations and start-up support and customer training.
