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Job Purpose
To provide professional design and field support for all electrical/controls systems within Company facilities.  Troubleshooting mechanical, hydraulic, refrigeration, and electrical systems from a controls perspective is a major portion of this job function.  This is a hands-on, team player position and the ability to provide servant leadership from corporate is critical to the success of the Technical Services Department.

Key Responsibilities and Duties
This position is mostly self-directed and is responsible for managing electrical and controls aspects of capital and plant improvement projects.  Training of plant personnel while on specific trouble calls or installation visits is important for development of plant personnel to address future issues.

Capital Project Management
• Project Management – Develop and manage capital projects as assigned to ensure correct scope, justifications, and appropriate execution.
• Engineering/Design – Design and engineer capital projects including control systems design, sizing and selection of equipment. Responsible for overseeing the development of project electrical drawing and documentation package.
• Construction Management – Manage capital project installations to ensure desired construction, specification, and timeline results are achieved with minimal cost.
• Contractor Management – Control the use of contractors as related to capital expenditures.  Coordinate the contractors to support any and all plant personnel as necessary.

Leadership and Innovation
• Provide leadership to the Company and personnel to improve engineering and operational initiatives.
• Drive engineering support to reduce costs and increase profit margins.
• Provide support and motivation to the facility personnel to improve operating efficiencies, controls knowledge and troubleshooting abilities.
• Perpetual searching for more efficient implementations in the Plants by using your technical knowledge and creative ideas.
• Provide servant leadership, camaraderie and support to colleagues to enhance teamwork of the organization to achieve common Company goals, as well as, the Technical Services departmental goal to become “The Best in Industry at the Execution of Projects”.

Experience and Educational Qualifications
Our Electrical Controls Engineer will be a college graduate (B.S. in Electrical Engineering preferred) with manufacturing experience, preferably in the plastics manufacturing industry, with project management responsibility and travel experience (road tested), preferable Journeyman Electrician. The candidate should possess a strong understanding of production, maintenance and engineering, as well as strong people skills and managerial abilities.  She/he should exhibit a sense of urgency, accountability, business ethics, professionalism, self-motivation, and the desire and focus to improve the business.

The candidate should be proficient in PLC programming, industrial networking, power systems and motor controls.  The candidate also should be experienced in CAD (AutoCAD/Solidworks), project scheduling (MS Project) software, Human Machine Interface (HMI), Plant level communication and be PC competent.