**Location**: Apodaca, NLE, MX, 66614
**Company**:Corning
**Day to Day Responsibilities**:
- Provide electrical and controls engineering and equipment technical expertise in fiber optic cable manufacturing in support of production, maintenance, continuous improvement, cost reduction, and productivity improvement.
- Provide technical support when maintenance requirements exceed electrical associate capabilities.
- Develop fundamental understanding of critical process and technical requirements, identify areas of technical risk in assigned projects, conduct prototype / feasibility testing to verify concept, and define and document system design specifications.
- Develop control architectures, control functional specification, and system integration requirements that will satisfy process and manufacturing requirements.
- Actively participate / direct all phases of the project including design, fabrication, off-line integration and testing, installation, production start-up support, training of plant personnel and technology transfer.
- Recommend and implement long term solutions to recurring equipment performance issues.
Provide inputs to capital and facilities plans for equipment upgrade or maintenance cycles.
- Be responsible for the plant controls strategy and establishing and maintaining the plant standards.
- Support process projects and data system projects by interfacing with operators and production team leaders to monitor and correct process fluctuations and equipment issues.
- Conduct equipment qualifications and initial training of new personnel* Owner of OSI PI configuration, implementation and MES.
- Support plant initiatives, and Operations on OEE, SPC, SQC and ISO
- Provide timely and efficient engineering support to meet or exceed the requirements of internal and external customers.
- Individual must be capable of executing project assignments, in a team based environment, with mínimal supervision
**Qualifications**
- Mechanical or Electrical Engineering degree or equivalent.
- Minimum 2-4years of manufacturing experience.
- Fully bilingual.
**Scope of Position**:
Serve as an electrical controls resource for process improvement, cost reduction and capital expansion projects.
Manage electrical and controls scope of assigned projects.
Lead/participate in project teams and support daily manufacturing operations by providing technical support to plant's various control systems.
**Required Skills**:
- Experience in programming PLC (AB RSLogix, Controllogix, Siemens S7 and G&L).
- Able to design, configure, and implement HMI programming.
- Ability to program in ladder logic.
- Strong fundamental understanding of electrical design practices, control systems integration, controls architectures, PLC's, electro-mechanical drive systems, vision system, risk assessment and safety systems.
- Understanding and updating electrical schematics and prints will be a required capabilityfor projects that support plant systems.
- Experience with the implementation and functions of PID Controls and control loop tuning.
- Experienced in the checkout and verification of electrical control panels.
- Well versed in the rules and regulation relating to implementation and best practices in electrical system design and implementation
Desired Skills:
- Knowledge of cable manufacturing process and equipment.
- Manufacturing experience and ability to work in a manufacturing environment.
- Machine vision system experience.
- Knowledge of MES systems, VB.NET and PI is a plus.
- Project Management skills
**Soft Skills**:
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)* Interpersonal skills -engaging, enabling, open.
- Strong organizational skills* Abilityto work in a team based environment.
- Energetic, effective under pressure, and can respond positively to criticism.
- Highly motivated, results oriented, customer focused, with a high commitment level.
- Sound problem solving and decision making processes and skills