Controls Designer

2 days ago

Woodstock, Ontario, Canada W3Global Full-time

What You Will Do

Design cool heavy-lifting equipment - hard core, break out the text books and calculators engineering

Controls Designer

Full Job Description

  • Perform calculations required for the winch or hoist to be engineered and lead the process of advance material requisitions to get key components on order
  • Create highly-engineered, no-two-projects-are-the-same designs
  • Witness the manufacturing and testing of equipment you designed to help shape the world's infrastructure, which is involved in some of the biggest, coolest projects in the world
  • Prepare concept, design and production drawings with supporting calculations and material data ensuring that designs meet specification requirements and manufacturing capabilities
  • Provide support in checking details, assemblies and BOMs for assigned projects
  • Specify system components or direct modification of products to ensure conformance with engineering design standards and performance specifications
  • Write performance requirements for product development or engineering projects
  • Read and interpret blueprints, technical drawings, schematics, and computer-generated reports related to mechanical, hydraulic and / or electrical systems
  • Recommend design modifications to eliminate machine or system malfunctions
  • Apply fundamental engineering principles along with advanced analytical techniques throughout the design process
  • Maintain thorough documentation for all aspects of assigned projects
  • Confer with engineers and other personnel to resolve system malfunctions, production issues, or challenges and provide technical information
  • Investigate equipment failures and difficulties to diagnose faulty operation and make recommendations for improvement
  • Work with manufacturing and engineering teams to provide cost effective solutions to design challenges
  • Domestic and international travel, approximately 25%, to commission equipment, train customers, other support as required
  • Programming using Ladder Logic, Function Blocks and Structural Text (experience with C programming and/or Visual Basic is beneficial)
  • Component selection, programming and troubleshooting PLC products and variable frequency drives
  • Interface controls to hydraulic systems, both closed loop and open loop, including electro-hydraulic controls; PLC controls include control panels, panel view interfaces, PLC programming

Who You Are

  • You thrive on challenging yourself to grow and want to work with a team that will push you, trust you, and hold you accountable
  • Intellectually curious, passionate about learning and being the best
  • Previous design experience engineering capital equipment in a manufacturing environment
  • Sense of urgency, highly responsive and oriented towards action
  • Can-do attitude, and respond in all situations with a positive and energized attitude
  • Post-secondary education in Engineering