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Controls Engineer- Lake Orion

  • Location
    • Lake Orion, Michigan
  • Schedule Full time
  • Posted

Description

For us the future is now! We are an assembly plant at the cutting edge of product and manufacturing processes. We strive for excellence in developing and sustaining the manufacturing enablers to quickly bring to market the most advanced and innovative automotive products to date. All these plants will be producing all electric vehicles These products put us at the forefront of our corporate vision of Zero emissions. This requires us to employ the most energetic, capable, and innovative talent to ensure we meet the challenges of developing the new manufacturing processes required to assemble such exciting products. We develop and execute the enablers to make GM Manufacturing an obvious competitive advantage for our company.

We offer a progressive and inclusive work environment that questions the status-quo daily to strengthen our reputation of being an incubator for new manufacturing processes and automation. We value community outreach and have a strong presence in our neighborhoods. The selected candidate will have the

opportunity to learn new skills as well as influencing the development of manufacturing processes to support this historical and game-changing progression to electric vehicles.

Lake Orion Assembly is seeking a creative, highly motivated, agile thinker with a passion for automation. The ideal candidate has a background in or exposure with electrical or computer engineering with strong programming skills and can perform at a high level in a fast paced, high volume manufacturing facility. This person shall be comfortable supporting manufacturing processes on the production floor. As a Controls Engineer you will be addressing production issues alongside quality, manufacturing, and maintenance teams. Additionally, you will be expected to maintain, and improve existing production processes by using continuous improvement and problem-solving techniques.

  • During the initial part of the program, there will be requirement to frequent (50% time) travel to the OEM, Equipment Manufacturer location

  • Configure, program, test and troubleshoot PLC based control systems and associated components

  • Electrical troubleshooting and testing of controls systems, control panels, and associated equipment

  • Diagnose and correct deficiencies in manufacturing processes and equipment

  • Develop innovative solutions

  • Support and actively interact with manufacturing, maintenance, and quality groups

  • Continuously improve quality, cost, responsiveness & safety

Minimum Requirements:

  • Bachelor's Degree with a major in electrical or mechatronics engineering, or equivalent automation controls engineering experience

  • Proficiency in industrial networking protocols – Profibus, Profinet, TCP/IP and EthernetIP

  • HMI – Siemens TIA Portal and Rockwell FactoryTalk View  

  • PLC – Rockwell ControlLogix and/or Siemens 300F families

  • Servo drive systems – Siemens G120 and S120 families, and Rockwell Powerflex and Kinetix

  • This position will require overtime and off-shift production support

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 2+ years of Controls experience in a Manufacturing environment

  • Vision Cameras

  • Fanuc or Siemens CNC experience

  • Fanuc Robot Programming experience

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