Controls Engineer (Food & Beverage Manufacturer)

Baldwin Richardson Foods is seeking a Controls Engineer to serve as the plant subject matter expert on manufacturing control systems across its production lines. The role supports production performance and quality, troubleshoots and develops control systems, and contributes to capital projects and process improvements in collaboration with production, maintenance, and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise to support electrical and controls portions of production, capital projects, and process improvements
• Troubleshoot and eliminate control systems issues and handle controls projects
• Develop new control and monitoring systems conforming to ISA and CSI standards
• Extend start-up support and training for control and monitoring systems
• Effectively respond to downtime events impacting production
• Reverse engineer current systems and programs for performing failure recovery
• Identify, recommend, and implement production improvement initiatives associated with delivering control systems to integrate with other processing or electro-mechanical equipment
• Design and develop PLC and HMI programs, IO Configuration, Electrical and Network Schematics, Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs)
• Commission control systems, including device configuration, I/O checkout, PID tuning, water testing, CIP testing, and production testing
• Support new equipment start-up training initiatives as required
• Act as a key individual contributor to support company objectives with respect to the implementation of capital projects and non-capital process improvements
• Work closely with maintenance and production to assure appropriate resources are trained on process and control systems

Preferred

• Experience in food manufacturing or consumer packaged goods a plus
• Food Manufacturing Experience
• Consumer Packaged Goods Experience

Company

• Custom food ingredients manufacturer for food and beverage industry.
• Macedon, New York, USA
• http://brfoods.com/
• Founded in 1997
• 501-1000 employees

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology, Automation, or related technical degree
• Three (3)+ years experience in high speed manufacturing
• Familiarity with Lean Manufacturing processes and concepts
• Ability to provide 24/7/365 support within a manufacturing environment
• Experience in food manufacturing or consumer packaged goods a plus
• Three (3)+ years experience in high speed manufacturing.

Required skills

• , Lean Manufacturing, High-Speed Manufacturing, Food Manufacturing, Consumer Packaged Goods

Preferred skills

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Experience

• 3+ years