Sr. Automation Engineer

Seattle, WA, USA

Onsite

Our client is a growing and successful engineering firm with multiple offices in the US! Work just south of Seattle metro and grow your career with an award winning team of engineers!

In this role you will design, develop, and start up industrial control systems used for controlling equipment, and machinery. You would be on a team responsible for the startup and de-bugging of equipment in the field at customer job sites.

Successful candidates will have:

  • BS degree in engineering preferred
  • 5+ years of industrial controls engineering in a discrete manufacturing industry preferred
  • Systems integration background is necessary
  • motion control experience preferred
  • At least 5 years of experience programming Allen Bradley PLCs from start to finish.
  • Ability to handle projects from start to finish
  • Able to travel up to 25%

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  1. Controls Group Engineering
  2. Robots and Vision
  3. Project Management
  4. Sales & Marketing Support
  5. Customer Relations

Controls Engineering

  • Control System Design & Development
    • PLC/HMI
    • Vision-guided Robotics
    • Motion Control
    • CNC
    • DCS
    • Manufacturing Intelligence
    • SCADA
    • Safety
    • Networking

Robots and Vision

  • Programming
  • Work cell design
  • Mechanical components

Project Management

  • Primary point of contact for project-related customer interactions
  • Manage project schedules
  • Manage project budgets
  • Ensure compliance with the company’s methodology