Principal Ctrl Engineer
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Location: Belle Plaine, MN 56011
Description:
Technical Responsibilities
Personal Responsibilities
Business Support & Development
- Technical Skills: Expert-level knowledge. Sets technical direction for the organization.
- Problem-Solving: Tackles industry-level or highly complex problems.
- Project Involvement: Leads company-wide or mission-critical projects.
- Conceptualize control systems for custom machinery projects, including hardware strategies, programming architectures, and safety analysis.
- Analyze technical challenges and devise creative solutions by drawing on available resources.
- Provide guidance and support for department personnel during the engineering phases of control systems and machines.
- Guide and advise machine debug within current projects, and promote effective debug methodologies.
- Provide initial estimates of control system costs for quotations, based on understanding of mechanical concept and customer requirements. Cooperate with Applications Engineering team to evaluate project feasibility.
Personal Responsibilities
- Collaboration: Works with leadership to influence strategy. Engages with customers and stakeholders.
- Mentorship: Develops engineering talent at all levels.
- Work proactively and independently to complete projects on time and within budget.
- Motivate self and others in a positive and professional manner.
- Delegate appropriately to engineering and shop personnel.
- Understand and effectively communicate project status and potential obstacles to success.
- Effectively communicate with customers and vendors to ensure successful project completion.
- Lead departmental standards development teams and other focus groups.
Business Support & Development
- Process Improvement: Drives innovation, defines best practices, and contributes to industry advancements.
- Keep current with new technology, engineering methods, and standards within the automation industry. Be an authoritative resource within the department on current technology and methods.
- Initiate and lead the implementation of new engineering methods and technologies.
- Facilitate the professional development of self and colleagues by constructively sharing lessons learned through project successes and failures.
- Train and mentor other engineers within the department.