Controls Designer

Job DescriptionJob DescriptionOur client, a leading manufacturing technology group for machining tasks in milling and turning for turnkey manufacturing systems and machines with customer-specific application technology, is hiring a Controls Designer.The company offers custom machine tools, manufacturing systems, and services including turning, milling, honing, systems integration, automation, software, maintenance, retrofit, e-learning, and core components for machine tools to organizations throughout the country/world.Controls Designer $60-$90k SalaryContract to hireLocation: Sterling HeightsBenefits: comprehensive benefits including 401kPosition Summary: Designs and drafts systems of electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic controls for machines and equipment such as arc welders, robots, conveyors, and programmable controllers by performing the following duties.Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Discusses project with Supervisor and Manufacturing Applications Engineer to review functions of machines and equipment.

• Designs and drafts arrangement of linkage of conductors, relays, and other components of electrical, electronic, hydraulic, pneumatic, and lubrication devices.

• Diagrams logic system for functions such as sequence and timing control.

• Working with PLC such as Siemens, Allen Bradley, or Rexroth.

• Designs and drafts diagrams of cable connection for robots, robot end-of-arm tool, robot controller, and other machines.

• Illustrates and describes installation and maintenance details such as where bearings should be lubricated, types of lubrication, and which parts are lubricated automatically and manually.

• Confers with Industrial Equipment Assembler & Wirer to resolve problems regarding building of controls systems.

• Reviews schematics with customer's representatives to answer questions during installation of robot systems.

• Observes gauges during trial run of programmed machine and equipment operation to verify that electrical signals in system conform to specifications.

• Designs controls for energy conversion or other industrial plant monitoring systems.

Education and/or Experience A combination of education and experience will be considered. Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university; plus one or more years of either machine tool design experience and/or training, or manufacturing engineering, CNC part programming, or similar part processing background; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Why work for Qualified Staffing? We offer fantastic benefits to all of our employees. This includes healthcare, vacation/holiday pay, and 401K. In fact, these are the same benefits we offer our corporate employees.
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