Senior Controls Engineer

Requisition Number: 64233

 

Corning is vital to progress – in the industries we help shape and in the world we share.

 

We invent life-changing technologies using materials science. Our scientific and manufacturing expertise, boundless curiosity, and commitment to purposeful invention place us at the center of the way the world interacts, works, learns, and lives.

 

Our sustained investment in research, development, and invention means we’re always ready to solve the toughest challenges alongside our customers. 

Our Optical Communications segment has recently evolved from being a manufacturer of optical fiber and cable, hardware and equipment to being a comprehensive provider of industry-leading optical solutions across the broader communications industry.This segment is classified into two main product groupings – carrier network and enterprise network. The carrier network product group consists primarily of products and solutions for optical-based communications infrastructure for services such as video, data and voice communications. The enterprise network product group consists primarily of optical-based communication networks sold to businesses, governments and individuals for their own use.

 

Position Purpose:

Serve as an electrical controls resource for process improvement, cost reduction and capital expansion projects. Manage electrical and controls scope of assigned projects. Participate in project teams and support daily manufacturing operations by providing technical support to plant’s various control systems. These controls solutions may be for systems to deliver and transform raw materials to product, convey ware between discrete processing steps, and/or measure and characterize ware created and/or processed by these novel manufacturing methods.

 

Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
• Experience in Program Logic Controller programming (Allen Bradley Studio 5000 preferred)
• Able to design, configure, and implement HMI - Human Machine Interface programming (General Electric iFix preferred) and SCADA - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
• Ability to program in ladder logic, structured text and function block
• 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
• Experienced in the checkout and verification of electrical control panels
• Working knowledge of National Fire Protection Association NFPA79 Industrial Machinery Electrical Safety Standard

 

Desired:

• Knowledge of cable manufacturing process and equipment
• Proven ability to work in a manufacturing environment
• Knowledge of MES systems, VB.NET and PI Data Historian
• AutoCAD Electrical
• Project management skills

 

Responsibilities:

• Integrates field devices for flow control, material handling and metering, motion control, temperature control, and associated safety systems into an overall controls package enabling a fully-functional equipment platform
• Work closely with IT & process engineers to define analog & digital channel requirements, control sequence logic (both time-based and event-based), fail-safe states and process /equipment recovery sequences
• Select and specify field devices to accomplish desired process / equipment functions, and compatible / compliant with site standards
• Work closely with Engineering project team and eventual Production Operation receivers to determine design requirements and constraints
• Accurately estimates timeframe to complete project work, once scope of work is adequately defined, then completes work to agreed-to timeline