Controls Engineer

Description

Job Summary: Designs, tests, installs, and maintains large-scale electronic equipment and machinery for automotive plant manufacturing, resolving problems with innovative solutions. Key Highlights: 1. Design and maintenance of electronic equipment in manufacturing processes. 2. Implementation of new and emerging control and manufacturing technologies. 3. Problem resolution with innovative and industry-leading solutions. **Job Posting Title** Controls Engineer**Job Description Summary** Electrical Engineering, Electromechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or related field. 3–5 years of experience in a similar role within the automotive industry; knowledge of CNC and controller programming. Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Robot Programming (FANUC, ABB), PLC, and Advanced English required.**Job Description:** The primary responsibilities of the Controls Engineer include designing, testing, installing, and maintaining large-scale electronic equipment or machinery for manufacturing at our SMF plant within the Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico manufacturing complex. Key responsibilities include: * Designs and recommends control system architecture, products, components, and applications used in manufacturing processes; identifies and resolves system interface and integration issues. * Evaluates new and emerging control and manufacturing technologies, adapting to specifications as appropriate. * Validates control system functionality, including appropriate safety compliance, by designing and/or executing test procedures. * Analyzes and resolves problems using innovative, creative, and industry-leading solutions. * Prepares and/or reviews electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic control drawings; collaborates with related engineering teams to evaluate components, materials, and suppliers. * Ensures process integrity and builds data collection capability. Provides information to manufacturing, process, and other engineering disciplines by responding to questions and requests. * Maintains equipment operational readiness through periodic audits; troubleshooting; ordering supplies; defining and reviewing preventive maintenance plans; requesting repairs; and implementing process improvements. * Manages supplier development and delivery. * Demonstrates transformative creativity and innovation in work to benefit customers/end users. * Delivers strategically important projects to completion. * Provides support for control-related issues, maintenance failures, and manufacturing issues. * Support, implementation, and improvements. * Maintain WPO in the workplace and laboratories. Implement and support solutions to prevent recurring quality-related issues. * Control modification of programs for new equipment. Enforce Dauch specifications for machinery construction. * Manage projects according to the project management dashboard as controls. * Develop procedures for backing up programs across all new machines. * Approve new machinery via control checklists. * Participate in projects to improve equipment maintainability. * Participate in run-offs and validation testing for new equipment. * Control laboratory setup procedures for managing the Electronics Lab. * Control costs in the electrical area. * Implement and manage improvement projects. * Ensure maximum standardization of components in equipment. Participate in reducing consumption of electrical parts by proposing improvements. * Generation of Improvements. * Scrap Reduction. Operation with PLCs, CNCs, Allen Bradley Control, FANUC, Mitsubishi, FANUC robots, and ABB robots. * Customer support across various departments. * Activity backup with robots; point recording in programs. * Generation of Backups for Machining Centers. **Required Skills and Education** * AUTOCAD, EPLAN, full Microsoft Office suite. * Programming and operation of FANUC robots, Robot Studio – ABB. * PLC – Allen Bradley, Siemens. Machine operation and specialized software; Siemens Step 7 PLC, ABB Software, Siemens, Fanuc, Okuma, Mitsubishi, Allen Bradley. * Knowledge of troubleshooting and failure analysis, advanced electrical and electronic systems. * Decision-making ability, planning and organization, analytical thinking, and sense of urgency. * ISO-16949 standard. * Valid visa for minimum 1 year; availability for international travel. **About AAM:** As a leading global Tier 1 Automotive and Mobility Supplier, AAM designs, engineers and manufactures Driveline and Metal Forming technologies to support electric, hybrid and internal combustion vehicles. Discover how we’re Bringing the Future Faster at AAM.com. AAM will not discriminate against any person or job applicant on the basis of age, race, color, gender, religion, weight, height, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, gender identity or expression, disability, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law. AAM will take steps to ensure individuals are treated equally throughout employment or hiring processes. At AAM, we value diversity within our workforce, customers, consumers, visitors, and the existence of both visible and invisible similarities and differences. People who work at AAM contribute a unique perspective shaped by their diverse attributes. If you require a reasonable accommodation for the position described above, please notify your recruiter. For more information, visit AAM.com.