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Form of workJohn Henry Foster has been helping customers solve problems since 1944. Making it easier for them to do business and doing it all with more expertise and a personal touch. Our founder, John Henry Foster, started as a traveling manufacturing representative, selling pneumatic equipment out of the back of his Airstream trailer. With unmatched service, expertise and quality products, John Henry built a strong foundation for the organization that stands today.
Although times have changed, and our business has grown, we still follow John Henry’s philosophy – “…Take care of the business and the business will take care of you.” With over 200 employee-owners, industry-trusted supplier partners, and a strong loyalty to our customers, we continue to grow as we provide quality products, expertise, convenience, and service that exceeds our customer expectations.
Today, we’re a 100% employee-owned company and looking to add a Senior Controls Engineer to our team. Someone who values craftmanship and is committed to excellence and service and who can start making an immediate impact for our customers. Does this sound like you?
As a Senior Controls Engineer your impact is two-fold:
- For the customer, your role is to analyze and understand their needs and design control system functionality to optimize the customer process and provide solutions.
- For the team, your role is to work independently and be a technical problem solver. You’ll be a key part of delivering outstanding service and providing unique customer solutions.
Benefits Package
John Henry Foster is dedicated to ensuring our employee-owners achieve their career goals. We’re committed to the success of our team members and have a culture that emphasizes and fosters opportunities for both personal and professional growth.
This is a long-term, career-growth oriented position, and as such, the compensation package we’re offering is competitive: $70,000 - $120,000 (annually, based on experience), and includes opportunities for you to maximize your earning potential through education, experience, our ESOP, bonuses, and professional development programs.
Our Senior Controls Engineers do a lot for us, which is why we give so much back in return. We have an excellent benefits package which includes:
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, HSA, and FSA plans.
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).
- 401(k) with company contribution.
- Paid time off and paid holidays.
- Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Meet with customers to analyze and understand customer requirements for control system.
- Analyze design requirements to understand how to fit customer process requirements, recommend methods to achieve design requirements.
- Design control system functionality to address or improve the customer process.
- Determine preliminary design and record in the Project Overview Scope documentation, review with engineering manager and sales and get signoff from customer prior to accepting PO.
- Create final quote documentation for every assigned project opportunity.
- Specify hardware and software system components that will support the recommended system.
- Responsible for creating and obtaining approval of wiring schematics and control panel layouts.
- Create a bill of materials.
- Design human-machine interfaces (HMI).
- Conceive programmable logic controller (PLC) ladder and other source codes such as Visual Basic or other language.
- Write PLC/human-machine interface and other source code.
- Simulate and debug written code.
- Start up and debug code and system functionality at customers’ facilities.
- Prepare as-built documents for distribution to customer’s engineering staff.
- Mentor junior level engineering staff.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering required.
- Ideally 3 – 5 years of experience in a similar role.
- Excellent communication and customer service skills.
- Familiarity with Allen Bradley (Logix 500/5000), VB Net, HMI Programming, SQL, AutoCAD preferred.
