Automatic Feed Company is currently seeking applicants for an Controls Engineer position. This position will require a highly skilled and knowledgeable individual who will do the following:
Those interested should have an associates or bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or computer science related fields. Additionally, programming experience will be required. This individual must be willing to travel.
This individual must be willing to travel approximately 20-25% of the time. Time spent traveling will be compensated.
Qualifications:
Able to interpret PLC ladder logic and troubleshoot electrical control systems including
AC & DC circuits, PLC’s, networks, VFD’s, and HMI’s using a laptop including Allen Bradley, and Siemens brands.
Responsibilities
Essential Functions:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Competencies:
Requirements:
Physical Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Essential Functions:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Required Special Equipment (including PPE):
Job Requirements:
Work Environment:
Competencies:
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls and to climb or balance. The employee is occasionally required to walk; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; and talk or hear. The employee must regularly lift and move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
Essential Functions:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Work Environment:
Normal plant environment. Contact with dirty and oily surfaces is likely. Long periods of standing on concrete floors is the norm. May be required to work in extreme temperatures: high heat and humidity in summers and cold temperatures when working on customer plant startups. Noise levels in plant normally are low; but high noise levels can be expected when working in customer stamping plants, or at our plant when grinding, drilling, and hammering, etc. Safety glasses and steel toe shoes are required. Hearing protection, hard hats may be required at customer plant.
Competencies:
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls and to climb or balance. The employee is occasionally required to walk; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; and talk or hear. The employee must regularly lift and move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
Job Description:
Assembles machines, equipment, and their subassemblies, such as coil carts, uncoilers, pinch roll units, peeler holddowns, straighteners, levelers, feeders, and automatic stackers, following blueprints and other written and verbal specifications: Plans assembly procedures, following specifications and using knowledge gained by experience. Rebuild and repair machines and equipment using hand tools and power tools. Removes small quantities of metal, using hand files or portable grinders to clean parts or to produce close fit between parts. Drills, taps, or reams holes, using drill press or portable drill. Aligns components and bolts, screws or rivets them together, using hand tools or portable powered tools. Installs moving parts, such as shafts, rolls, levers or bearings, and works them to test free movement. May bend and install pipe for hydraulic and lubrication systems. May align and mesh gears in gearbox to assemble system of gears. May test or assist in testing operation of completed product. May perform cleaning and painting of equipment. Disassemble equipment and prepare equipment for shipment to customer plant. May install equipment in customer plant. Perform mechanical troubleshooting
Essential Functions:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Job Requirements:
Competencies:
Work Environment:
Normal plant environment. Contact with dirty and oily surfaces is likely. Long periods of standing on concrete floors is the norm. May be required to work in extreme temperatures: high heat and humidity in summers and cold temperatures when working on customer plant startups. Noise levels in plant normally are low; but high noise levels can be expected when working in customer stamping plants, or at our plant when grinding, drilling, and hammering, etc. Safety glasses and steel toe shoes are required. Hearing protection, hard hats may be required at customer plant.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls and to climb or balance. The employee is occasionally required to walk; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; and talk or hear. The employee must regularly lift and move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
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Automatic Feed Company, a well-established producer of coil handling and press feeding equipment in Napoleon, Ohio, employs over 80 team members. The AFCO team consists of Mechanical, Electrical and Software Engineers, Service and Assembly Technicians, Project Managers and Administrative Staff. Our highly qualified team members find themselves being challenged and encouraged to freely utilize their expertise while efficiently completing tasks and building quality products. Each day’s unique activities makes each and every position challenging and rewarding.
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AFCO’s Mechanical Engineering team members utilize state of the art software to design customized equipment for our automotive customers. Our capabilities include equipment designs that meet our customers’ needs for processing aluminum, steel and UHSS, all while helping them to minimizing downtime.
AFCO’s Electrical Engineering team develops electrical systems and software that are capable of running our customers’ equipment in a fully automated mode, or manually if preferred. Our capabilities include working with several drive and control systems including Unico, Siemens, Mitsubishi, Allen Bradley, and Toyopuc, to mention a few. If you understand electrical control systems, Electrical Engineering may be just right for you.
Automatic Feed also offers opportunities in Software Engineering. AIM, our in-house visual basic software package, offers our customers a tool that assists them with keeping their equipment running smoothly and efficiently, minimizing equipment downtime. It has been designed and written by our software engineers who know and best understand AFCO’s equipment. If you are interested in software, a career writing AIM may be of interest to you.
The Project Management team members work hands on with our Customers, assisting with projects, start to finish, to ensure customer satisfaction. Project Managers assist our customers by providing regular project updates, addressing customer concerns that arise, and by coordinating all aspects of an in-process project to ensure that progress moves along smoothly and seamlessly for our customers. If your skills include the ability to satisfy customers by coordinating large projects, a career as a Project Manager may be right for you.
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